Table 3.

Correlation between health system performance and economic factors.

variable	Synthetic outcome measure	Immunization, BCG	Immunization, DPT	Immunization, HepB3	Immunization, measles	Immunization, Pol3	Life expectancy	Tuber detectection rate	Infant mortality rate	Maternal mortality rate
health expenditure (% GDP)	0.044694	$0.159762$	0.128433	$0.158069$	0.054192	$0.162839$	0.037703	$0.260278$	$\mathrm{-0.168624}$	−0.099562
health expenditure per capita	$0.264919$	$0.296029$	$0.317320$	$0.422113$	$0.257279$	$0.311015$	$0.209988$	$0.494820$	$\mathrm{-0.447914}$	$\mathrm{-0.352221}$
health expenditure per capita, PPP	$0.228464$	$0.294463$	$0.309017$	$0.400152$	$0.242021$	$0.301754$	$0.210487$	$0.518698$	$\mathrm{-0.460904}$	$\mathrm{-0.355223}$
government health expenditure (% of health expenditure)	$0.397253$	$0.233899$	$0.351049$	$0.447649$	$0.293582$	$0.344972$	0.113608	$0.626948$	$\mathrm{-0.546340}$	$\mathrm{-0.473297}$
government health expenditure (% of GDP)	0.125593	$0.196830$	$0.217168$	$0.269918$	0.102070	$0.223036$	0.105618	$0.373304$	$\mathrm{-0.291032}$	$\mathrm{-0.187618}$
government health expenditure (% of government expenditure)	0.059933	0.043601	0.066430	$0.179797$	0.027099	0.096481	−0.045948	$0.252084$	$\mathrm{-0.190881}$	−0.108832
GDP per capita, PPP	$0.358801$	$0.315869$	$0.368174$	$0.507915$	$0.327255$	$0.350632$	$0.222971$	$0.616336$	$\mathrm{-0.583812}$	$\mathrm{-0.483303}$
GDP growth	0.091635	0.027671	0.060973	−0.035495	0.079972	0.038330	0.127591	$\mathrm{-0.174845}$	0.049213	−0.004003
Unemployment	0.020291	0.045832	0.023167	0.018958	−0.109265	0.078459	$\mathrm{-0.233218}$	$0.140545$	0.052882	0.031121
Inflation	0.061673	0.106508	0.050595	−0.017109	0.097861	0.059939	$\mathrm{-0.179026}$	$0.274074$	−0.077692	0.008005
Services (% of GDP)	−0.088140	0.034980	0.013751	0.055924	−0.039986	0.028555	−0.102122	$0.179621$	−0.058206	0.018512
Industry (% of GDP)	$0.176529$	0.038635	0.064606	0.005873	0.123115	0.050164	0.103620	−0.068187	−0.051212	$\mathrm{-0.142089}$
Agriculture (% of GDP)	−0.069164	0.019840	−0.050076	$\mathrm{-0.169305}$	−0.019993	−0.074860	$0.152559$	$\mathrm{-0.327138}$	$0.229578$	$0.151595$

Results for Kendall tau rank test (statistically significant results in red).