An Analysis of the Relationship between Life Expectancy at Birth and the Total Public Revenues in Romania, during 1995-2013

Abstract

This paper studies the nature of the relationship and the impact of the demographic phenomena (by life expectancy at birth indicator) on indicators of public finance (through analysis of total government revenue). In this respect, the analysis took into account the evolution of these indicators in Romania in the period 1995-2013 and the conclusions of the empirical analysis revealed positive link between those indicators.

Keywords

• ageing; public revenues; life expectancy