Legătura dintre populație și dezvoltarea durabilă la nivelul economiei românești

Abstract

The paper aims to present the link between population and sustainable development, through specific indicators: the number of the population and the human development index. In the last 20 years, at the level of Romania, a continuous reduction in the number of the population can be observed, which leads to the aging of the population, with a strong impact on the economy. Using correlation and regression, two statistical methods for highlighting the link between variables, we analyze the existing relationship between the number of the population and the human development index at the level of the Romanian economy, over a period of 10 years. The analysis of the two indicators is carried out with the help of the Excel spreadsheet program, Data Analysis. The results provided by Excel after entering the values recorded by the number of the population and the human development index demonstrate that there is a strong relationship between these indicators. The value of the human development index provided by the official data is recorded for 2 or 3 years ago, so we can compensate for this shortcoming through the regression function. The obtained results allow us to present the existing regression function between the indicators and to be able to determine the value of the human development index knowing the number of the population, because this information is provided at the beginning and in the middle of each year.