Story: Health and society
These graphs show mortality rates for males and females based on income. Mortality rates were consistently highest for low-income earners and lowest for high-income earners, with middle-income earners in between. While mortality rates fell for all income groups between 1981 and 2004, the gap between the rates for low and high income earners widened in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the gap stabilised in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Source: Mortality and Demographic Data, Ministry of Health, 2006
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