We analyzed these relationships using data provided by World Bank
and Eurostat. In our study, we included the countries from EU28 to which we
added Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and, for comparison reasons, the USA.
For all specified countries, the period all indicators cover is 1995 – 2012, an
exception being the Healthy Life Years indicator, covering only the timeframe
2004 – 2012 and having no data for the USA. The main results of regression
analysis are in Table 2: