Impact of disaster-related mortality on gross domestic product in the WHO African Region

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Table 3 Effects of various explanatory variables on GDP per capita

variable	elasticity (t statistic)	Slope coefficient¹ (t statistic)	P > \|t\|
log (D)	0.043 (1.19)	380.358 (1.19)	0.243
log (L)	-0.010 (-1.22)	-0.0000036 (-1.22)	0.232
log (K)	0.545 (2.33)*	53.120 (2.33)*	0.025
log (LE)	1.396 (2.45)*	58.702 (2.45)*	0.019
log (EN)	0.647 (3.01)*	29.759 (3.01)*	0.005
log (X)	0.698 (3.68)*	45.863 (3.68)*	0.001
log (M)	-1.065 (-3.67)*	-49.772 (-3.67)*	0.001
log (DS)	-0.102 (-2.08)*	-0.018 (-2.08)*	0.044
constant	0.261 (0.12)		0.907
Number of observations = 45
F(8, 36) = 13.18
Prob > F = 0.0000
Adjusted R-Squared = 0.6888

¹Average (across the 45 countries) GDP per capita and those for individual explanatory variables are used in estimating the slope coefficients. * means that the variable has a statistically significant impact on GDP per capita at 95% level of significance.

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