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Income Inequality, Illiteracy Rate, and Life Expectancy in Brazil

Erick Messias, MD, MPH

At the time of this study, the author was with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Life expectancy and income inequality: Brazil, 2000.

Note. Each square represents a state and is proportional to the size of its population.

 


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  		FIGURE 2—— Life expectancy and illiteracy rate: Brazil, 2000.

Note. Each square represents a state and is proportional to the size of its population.

 


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  		FIGURE 3—— Percentage of variation in life expectancy explained by education and income variables: Brazil, 2000

Note. GDP = gross domestic product.

 




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