3. INEQUALITY
Among the targets to achieve
are:
“ensure equal opportunity and
reduce inequalities of outcome,”
including through measures to
eliminate discrimination, and to
“empower and promote the
social, economic and political
inclusion of all, irrespective of
age, sex, disability, race,
ethnicity, origin, religion or
economic or other status.”
4. INEQUALITY
” In addition, Goal 5 is to achieve gender
equality and empower all women and
girls, among whose targets are ending
“all forms of discrimination against all
women and girls everywhere,”
recognizing and valuing unpaid care and
domestic work, and providing equal
rights to economic resources and “access
to ownership and control over land and
other forms of property, financial
services, inheritance and natural
resources.”
5. INEQUALITY
Inequality is concerned with
disparities in the distribution
of a certain metric, which can
be income, health or any
other material or non-
material asset.
Inequality typically refers to
within country inequality on
individual or group level,
such as between gender,
urban and rural population,
race etc.
7. GLOBAL INEQUALITY
Not everybody has the same
access to the same rights,
opportunities or quality of
life.
Japan - 85 years
Canada - 81 years
United Kingdom - 80 years
United States - 80 years
Pakistan - 68 years
Nigeria - 59 years
Afghanistan - 52 Years
8. Factors that influence life expectancy
1. Access to healthcare:
Without access to doctors,
nurses, medicine, vaccines,
and other healthcare needs,
people are more likely to die
from preventable causes. For
example, what could be a
simple hospital visit might
take days because the hospital
is far away.
9. Factors that influence life expectancy
2. Economy:
Some countries are
poorer/richer than others. This
means that they might not have
roads or hospitals, or schools.
Some people are also
poorer/richer.
It means people might not have
jobs or clothing or food.
Without a good economy and
good jobs, people can’t afford
basic needs.
10. Factors that influence life expectancy
3. Political stability:
Not all places have a stable
government. Think of all the
ways that your government is
involved in your life (jobs,
schooling, roads, food
production, almost
everything!). Without a stable
government, it is hard to live
in a place that is safe and
healthy.
11. Factors that influence life expectancy
4. Basic human rights and
equality:
Some places do not allow
women to work or vote. Some
places persecute people who
are LGBTQ. There might be
less rights related to job
safety. There might be less
rights related to disability.
There might be less rights
related to being a child, or a
senior citizen.
12. Factors that influence life expectancy
5. Geography:
Some places are more
dangerous naturally. If you
live in an active earthquake
zone, or somewhere
extremely cold/hot, or live in
a place surrounded by
dangerous animals, it can
shorten the average life
expectancy of that area.
You must consider places on
war
13. Factors that influence life expectancy
6. Education and access to
information:
Education helps people make
their own lives better,
through jobs and
opportunities. It also helps a
country become better, with
better solutions to their
problems.
14. Factors that influence life expectancy
7. Access to water, food, and
sanitation facilities:
Not everyone in the world has
access to safe drinking water
that isn’t full of bad germs or
chemicals. Not everyone has
access to nutritious food. Not
everyone has access to proper
toilets and sewers. All of these
things are important to stay
healthy.
15. Another way to understand inequality
Let’s think that the 7.8 billion people in
the world are just 100
● 86 are able to read and write
● Only 7 have a university degree
● Only 40 have an internet connection
● 78 have a place to stay
● 88 have enough good nutritious food
● 1 would be dying from starvation.
● 11 would be undernourished.
● 91 have access to safe drinking water
