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The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) recently published a report  that ranked countries and regions by their Gini coefficient. This Gini coefficient looked at income inequality worldwide where zero denoted absolute equality and 100 denoted absolute inequality.  The U.S. earned a Gini coeffiecent of 40.8 which ranked it number three in the list of countries of biggest gaps between the rich and the poor.

According to a study done by Wolfson and colleagues, the existence of inequalities in income has a greater negative impact on an individuals’ mortality than their own individual-level relation between mortality and income. In other words, it is the impact of a country’s inequality of income, not a persons’ own individual poverty alone that negatively affects an individual’s health.

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