# Source: life_expectancy
**Category:** biology_health
**README generated:** 2025-10-02 12:52:18Z

## Source URL(s)
- https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/vikramamin/life-expectancy-who

## Citation(s)
- Vikram Amin. (2021). Life Expectancy WHO [Dataset]. Kaggle. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/vikramamin/life-expectancy-who

## Variables (X → Y)
- Alcohol → Adult Mortality
- Alcohol → Life expectancy
- Alcohol → child mortality(infant deaths,under-five deaths)
- BMI → Adult Mortality
- BMI → Life expectancy
- BMI → child mortality(infant deaths,under-five deaths)
- vaccine preventable diseases(Diphtheria,Polio) → Adult Mortality
- vaccine preventable diseases(Diphtheria,Hepatitis B,Polio) → Life expectancy
- vaccine preventable diseases(Diphtheria,Hepatitis B,Polio) → child mortality(infant deaths,under-five deaths)
- expenditure(GDP,Total expenditure,percentage expenditure) → Adult Mortality
- expenditure(GDP,Total expenditure,percentage expenditure) → Life expectancy
- HIV/AIDS → Adult Mortality
- non preventable diseases(HIV/AIDS,Measles) → Life expectancy
- non preventable diseases(HIV/AIDS,Measles) → child mortality(infant deaths,under-five deaths)
- Income composition of resources → Adult Mortality
- Income composition of resources → Life expectancy
- Income composition of resources → child mortality(infant deaths,under-five deaths)
- Schooling → Adult Mortality
- Schooling → Life expectancy
- Schooling → child mortality(infant deaths,under-five deaths)
- thinness 5-9 years → Adult Mortality
- thinness 5-9 years → Life expectancy
- thinness 5-9 years → child mortality(infant deaths,under-five deaths)

## Causal reasoning

In this dataset, the causes are country wide features that have an impact on the country's overall life expectancy.

## Notes:

In order to stop any possible timeseries dynamics, only data pertaining the years: 2015,2010,2005,2000 was chosen.