Security Studies, at its core, analyzes how humans behave to preserve and improve their quality of lives. This paper thus examines quality of life as the dependent variable of analysis and exams the relationship of the two most commonly ascribed variables that effect it; security and economic growth. This analysis takes these leading variables side-by-side over the course of 30 years through the vector of 60 populations as of 1980 to determine which variable has a stronger relationship to influencing quality of life. This paper hypothesizes that both security and economic growth will have statistically significant relationships with quality of life and that security will have a stronger strength of relationship. However, the results show that while both are statistically significant, economic growth, in fact more strongly relates to quality of life.
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