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Neil Pearce, PhD and George Davey Smith, MD, MSc, DSc, FFPHM

Neil Pearce is with the Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Wellington, New Zealand. George Davey Smith is with the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England.

View larger version (10K): [in a new window]   FIGURE 1—— Time trends in income inequality (measured by the Gini coefficient) and age-standardized mortality rates (per 100 000 population) in New Zealand.

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   FIGURE 2—— Income inequality and life expectancy (from Lynch et al.23) for the same 9 countries reported by Wilkinson et al.,10 but with information updated to 1989–1991 (A) and with the addition of the other 7 countries for which income inequality data are now available for the period 1989–1991. Note. Circles represent country population size.