The Relationship between Energy Consumption, CO 2 Emissions, Economic Growth, and Health Indicators

Jing Li, Muhammad Irfan (), Sarminah Samad, Basit Ali, Yao Zhang, Daniel Badulescu and Alina Badulescu
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Jing Li: School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China
Sarminah Samad: Department of Business Administration, College of Business and Administration, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
Basit Ali: Department of Economics, COMSATS University Islamabad (C.U.I.), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Yao Zhang: School of Management, Hebei Finance University, Baoding 071051, China

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 3, 1-20

Abstract: The health and wellness of people through life expectancy, mortality rate improvement, and sustaining the productivity of labor contributes a lot to national income. Infrastructure development consumes energy and releases carbon dioxide at different stages of the construction process. The current study explores the nexus between CO 2 emission, energy consumption, mortality, life expectancy, and GDP in the top five carbon-emitting countries by using time series data from 1975 to 2015. The study used a cointegration technique to find the long- and short-run relationships between study variables. The study also used a structural break test to identify the break time. The results of the correlation matrix show strong positive correlation between CO 2 emissions and energy consumption. It also reflects a weak correlation with mortality and life expectancy in Japan and Russia. The results of the ADF test indicated that the series are stationary at first difference and provided evidence to use Johansen cointegration test for long- and short-run relationships between independent series. Vector error correction term and ECT method are used to find long-run relationships between cointegrated series and adjustment parameters. For the structural breaks of health indicators and energy consumption study, we used the Gregory Hanson structural break. Mortality rate and life expectancy rate of China, U.S., Russia, India, and Japan show relevant policy changes with economic policies of each country.

Keywords: life expectancy; mortality rate; CO 2 emission; cointegration; structural break (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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