Table 2. Basic statistics

Variables	Obs	Mean	Std. dev.	Min	Max
lnDE	1,495	1.6821	0.7345	−0.6378	3.5981
lnHE	1,495	2.4029	0.4207	0.2214	3.6659
laglnDE	1,415	1.6893	0.7307	−0.6378	3.5981
laglnHE	1,415	2.4039	0.4185	0.2214	3.6659
lnDEBT	1,495	3.6710	0.7650	−0.3079	6.4660
lnOGE	1,495	4.3921	0.0753	4.0555	4.5653
lnGDP	1,495	8.5485	1.5645	4.7128	11.6593
DI	1,495	7.0079	2.9127	0.0000	10.0000
CP	1,495	44.3439	21.9229	8.0000	100.0000
lnFDI	1,495	1.0568	1.1914	−6.5235	5.5307
CI	1,495	0.0127	0.1287	0.0000	2.0000
POP	1,495	32.4984	49.5365	0.4440	318.7890

DE, Defense Expenditure; HE, Public Health Expenditure; DEBT, Government Debt; OGE, Other Government Expenditure; GDP, Gross Domestic spending Per capita; DI, Democracy Index; CP, Corruption Perception index; FDI, Foreign Direct Investment; CI, Civil International violence; POP, Population; Obs, Observation; Std. dev, Standard deviation; Min, Minimum; Max, Maximum.