inequality across and within countries. The paper explores the causes of such trends on the basis of five main mortality models … world if the determinants of health had continued developing over these decades as they did over 1960-80. The results …

mortality rates as indicators for the health status and analyse the convergence/divergence of overall mortality for (i) the … whole population, for (ii) females, for (iii) males and for (iv) the gender gap in overall mortality. Convergence … Concordance) are used to test for absolute and conditional beta-convergence in mortality. We find mixed results for the inequality …