BRICS Financial Access and Environmental Health Indicators 2001-2023

BRICS countries data from 2001 to 2023 examines links between financial access, environmental quality, and health outcomes. The study uses indicators including commercial bank branches per 100,000 adults, renewable energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, PM2.5 air pollution, and infant and under-five mortality rates. Panel fixed-effects and mediation models analyze direct and indirect relationships, controlling for GDP per capita, government expenditure, energy consumption, and urban population share.

Use Cases

• Analyze the association between commercial bank branches per 100,000 adults and renewable energy consumption across BRICS nations.
• Model the mediation effect of PM2.5 air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions on the link between financial access and under-five mortality rates.
• Investigate non-linear income-environment relationships using GDP per capita and its squared term as control variables.
• Assess the correlation between government expenditure (GOV) and infant mortality rates within the panel framework.

Strengths

• Data covers a 23-year time range from 2001 to 2023.
• Includes multiple specific indicators: financial access, three environmental metrics, and two health outcomes.
• Study employs panel fixed-effects models and mediation analysis for causal inference.
• Released under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 41.8 KB, indicating limited scope and likely aggregated country-level data.
• Unknown row and column counts prevent assessment of granularity and sample size.
• Data is contained in a DOCX file, requiring extraction for analysis, not in a ready-to-use tabular format.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Bibo Xie.

Collection Method

Empirical study using panel data analysis and mediation modeling.

Time Range

2001 to 2023.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).