Socioeconomic indicators and economic investments influence oral cancer mortality in Latin America

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Table 2 Descriptive data regarding the socioeconomic parameters of Latin American countries considered for this study, considering the period between 2000 and 2015

	Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capta		Gini Index		Unemployment rate		Health expenditure per capta(%GDP)		Government Health Expenditure (as %GDP)		Government Education Investments (as % GDP)		Investments on Research and Development (as %GDP)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Argentina	8408.903	3259.514	46.78	4.13	11.504	4.007	8.071	0.588	5.020	1.002	4.72	0.72	0.487	0.084
Brazil	7052.029	3541.317	55.87	2.87	8.467	1.124	8.805	1.360	3.301	0.631	4.97	0.87	1.077	0.104
Chile	9098.673	4085.495	50.69	2.95	8.660	1.631	7.035	0.548	3.946	0.425	3.94	0.51	0.331	0.029
Colombia	4466.826	2164.274	54.89	2.07	12.639	3.291	5.759	0.307	4.119	0.259	4.26	0.40	0.204	0.061
Ecuador	3573.372	1599.684	51.12	4.20	4.221	0.764	6.319	1.693	2.617	1.199	2.74	1.83	0.195	0.152
Guatemala	2382.026	778.592	53.66	2.05	2.970	0.334	6.153	0.309	2.083	0.095	2.27	0.72	0.041	0.010
Mexico	8208.664	1873.468	47.36	2.13	4.012	0.937	5.530	0.402	2.621	0.338	4.83	0.36	0.410	0.091
Nicaragua	1312.002	363.456	48.99	4.07	6.491	1.216	6.340	1.010	3.128	0.764	3.22	0.92	0.073	0.024
Panama	6703.067	3242.234	53.98	2.50	3.664	0.736	6.740	0.264	4.393	0.293	3.62	0.46	0.216	0.100
Paraguay	3106.709	1674.421	52.23	2.77	6.580	2.230	6.012	1.025	2.742	0.848	4.14	0.64	0.077	0.018
Peru	3707.913	1794.793	49.13	4.15	4.479	1.016	4.803	0.252	2.600	0.320	3.03	0.36	0.106	0.029

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