Table 1:

Descriptive statistics of the study variables

Variable	Mean	Median	Max	Min	Std. Dev.
Life Expectancy at birth, Male, years.	70.69	70.50	74.60	67.20	1.88
Life Expectancy at birth, Female, years.	75.79	75.85	78.40	72.60	1.28
Life Expectancy at birth, Total, years.	73.24	73.18	76.45	69.95	1.55
Poverty (proportion of people under national poverty line), percentage.	3.22	1.60	17.80	0.00	3.79
Unemployment rate, percentage.	3.00	3.00	4.60	0.50	0.74
Monthly household Income,'000 MYR	3.77	3.42	10.37	1.62	1.63
Income inequality, GINI coefficient.	0.40	0.40	0.47	0.32	0.03
Public Health Expenditure (proportion, out of total health expenditure).	0.57	0.60	0.76	0.29	0.13

Max= Maximum, Min = Minimum, Std. Dev. =Standard deviation, MYR= Malaysian Ringgit (USD 1 ≈ MYR 4.3, as in Sep 2017)