Yama Bazger (mb2482@cornell.edu), Aleksandra Marjanovic (am2445@cornell.edu), Rigel Wafford (rcw248@cornell.edu), and Shreya Tuli (st783@cornell.edu).

Urbanization and Health in the 2010s

Visualizing changes in air quality and life expectancy.

The ten countries with the highest air pollution concentration are represented below. The goal was to show correlation by checking if life expectancy and air pollution concentration changed through an inverse relationship. However, the line plots show that there might be other, more immediate, variables that play a major role with life expectancy. Similarly, life expectancy does not fluctuate significantly, thus sensitivity to change (such as in air pollution concentration) is difficult to capture. Nonetheless, it still provides an insight about countries with high air pollution concentration and life expectancy - and the outliers such as Qatar and Kuwait.

Life Expectancy (left) and Air Pollution Concentration (µg/m³) (right) for the Top Ten Countries with the Highest Air Pollution Concentration