Female age 0 population linked to consumption expenditure
Comparing Final consumption expenditure (current US$) with Age population, age 00, female, interpolated across 178 countries, 2025–2025.
- Rank correlation
- +0.57
- Holding size constant
- -0.66
- Countries compared
- 178
- Period
- 2025–2025
What might link these
The relationship between female age 0 population and final consumption expenditure might be influenced by factors like family planning and economic development. A careful reader should consider that education level could be a confounder, as it affects both family size and economic participation. The correlation's significance after controlling for population and GDP suggests a more complex relationship.
Why this is not proof of anything
This is a correlation across countries, not an experiment. It cannot show that either indicator causes the other, and both may simply follow a third thing. This correlation could mislead by implying a direct link between birth rates and consumption patterns, when in fact other socioeconomic factors may be driving the relationship.
The second figure above repeats the measurement with national population and income held constant. It is the more conservative number: a relationship that largely disappears there was mostly telling you that larger, richer countries have more of most things.
How this was measured
Both indicators were ranked across every country reporting each, and the two rankings compared — ranks rather than raw values, because a handful of very large countries can otherwise manufacture a relationship on their own. The calculation is arithmetic over figures already published on this site; the commentary above is drafted from the two indicator names and the resulting coefficients.