Population Prospects to develop the most comprehensive database of lifespan inequality and polarization for 258 countries and … disparities in health outcomes. Tracking the evolution of lifespan inequality is essential to promoting social justice and equity … userfriendly website that enables users to compute lifespan inequality for any group of countries of their choice. These extensive …

This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan … lifespan dispersion but is less sensitive to age-specific health dispersion. Distributional sensitivity changes relative …

the recent rise in life expectancy inequality in the US and the entire change in Denmark. Our analysis shows that the … in life expectancy inequality. Rather, the dramatic 50% reduction in cardiovascular deaths, which benefited both rich and …

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

. While the life expectancy inequality has returned to its pre-pandemic level in 2022, the observed life expectancy in almost …

, quality of life and mortality. Understanding inequality in relation to these behaviours among older people is important in the … context of a rapidly ageing population. In this study, we examine income-related inequality in relation to these three key … indices and decompose them to determine the factors which contribute most to inequality. We then examine whether differences …

Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy … in poorer areas with the result that inequality in mortality has fallen substantially over time. This is an important … that today's children are likely to face considerably less inequality in mortality as they age than current adults. We also …

This paper analyses social inequality in adult mortality over the last 500 years in rural Aragon (Spain). It uses … focused on observing the evolution of inequality in mortality by SES over a period of 500 years, deepening and relating it to … centuries, it enables us to verify the persistence of social inequality in death in rural Spain, which contrasts with the …