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 The inequality in years of life between people within the same country can be measured in the same way that we measure, for example, the [inequality in the distribution of incomes](https://owid.cloud/income-inequality). The idea is to estimate the extent to which a small share of a country's population concentrates a large 'stock of health', hence living much longer than most of the population in the same country. The following visualization presents estimates of the inequality of lifetimes as measured by the Gini coefficient. A high Gini coefficient here means a very unequal distribution of years of life – that is, large within-country inequalities of the number of years that people live. These estimates are from Peltzman (2009){ref}Sam Peltzman, “Mortality Inequality”, Journal of Economic Perspectives 23(4), Fall 2009: 175-19. Online [here](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.23.4.175).{/ref}, where you can find more details regarding the underlying sources and estimation methodology. As can be seen in the chart, inequality in health outcomes has fallen strongly within many countries. <Chart url="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/inequality-of-life-as-measured-by-mortality-gini-coefficient-1742-2002?country=England%20and%20Wales+DEU+SWE+USA"/> 
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