HDI and HIV AIDS Namibia

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On the rest of the years (2010-2012) the situation is not different from the comparison established between 2005 and 2009. African countries having abysmal gap between them and the European countries. The European level of prevalence does not even reach the one percent while in the African countries, the HIV prevalence is rampant. It is important to note that the correlation calculation for these last three years has just kept increasing: 95% in 2010, 96% in 2011 and 98% for 2012. An utterly strong correlation between HDI and HIV. Nevertheless, let us remember that a positive correlation does not necessarily mean causality. On the top of the list regarding HDI in Africa, we find South Africa, which is also the second lowest in HIV prevalence. At the same time, in Europe, we have got Norway spearheading the list regarding HDI and, unsurprisingly also accounting for one of the lowest in HIV prevalence.

3. Correlation graph, years: 2005,2009,2010,2011 and 2012

Source: Geohive.com and worldbank.org

Source: Geohive.com and worldbank.org
The previous graph shows a scatterplot accounting for all the years in the analysis. With the Netherlands being an outlier for the year 2005, the general tendency clearly shows what previous calculations have stated. There is a negative strong correlation between the HDI and the HIV prevalence percentage. Further calculations shows that there is no correlation between the years, this means that for this dataset. The passage of time is not important to be taken in account not in HDI nor in HIV since their correlation percentages are 7% for the former and 0.006% for the latter.
Discussion
As stated before, HDI is made up three components: Health, Education and Wealth. Having this in mind it be...

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