Measuring health and economic wellbeing in the Sustainable Development Goals era: development of a poverty-free life expectancy metric and estimates for 90 countries Carlos Riumallo-Herl, PhD, Prof David Canning, PhD, Prof Joshua A Salomon, PhD The Lancet Global Health Volume 6, Issue 8, Pages e843-e858 (August 2018) DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30277-8 Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Distribution of World Bank poverty rates in 90 countries, by age and sex The Lancet Global Health 2018 6, e843-e858DOI: (10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30277-8) Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Poverty-free life expectancy at birth based on World Bank poverty lines, both sexes combined The Lancet Global Health 2018 6, e843-e858DOI: (10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30277-8) Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 Poverty-free life expectancy at birth based on national poverty lines, both sexes combined The Lancet Global Health 2018 6, e843-e858DOI: (10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30277-8) Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license Terms and Conditions
Figure 4 Mean poverty-free life expectancy at birth by region (A) and country income group (B) Country income groups are defined in terms of ranges for the gross domestic product per capita. The Lancet Global Health 2018 6, e843-e858DOI: (10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30277-8) Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license Terms and Conditions
Figure 5 Relationship between poverty-free life expectancy using World Bank poverty lines and other summary measures of health and development Error bars indicate 95% uncertainty intervals for each poverty-free life expectancy estimate. GDP=gross domestic product. The Lancet Global Health 2018 6, e843-e858DOI: (10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30277-8) Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license Terms and Conditions
Figure 6 Counterfactual analysis of poverty-free life expectancy based on mortality rates in Japan (A) or poverty prevalence in the USA (B) The Lancet Global Health 2018 6, e843-e858DOI: (10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30277-8) Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license Terms and Conditions