**1. Introduction**

Among the plethora of economic variables that might be invoked to measure Covid-19's negative effect on economic recovery, GDP remains paramount. This economic imperative is exceeded only by the human imperative of survival itself [1].

Section 2 shows that world GDP can almost perfectly predict the life expectancy of the entire world population. In arriving at this finding, this work relies on only three data definitions and one fractional-polynomial command. It will be interesting to see if the World Bank or IMF can verify that these definitions and their processing command will predict the survival rate of the world's rich as well as poor nations.
