Disparities in length of life across developed countries: measuring and decomposing changes over time within and between country groups

Table 2 Between- and within-group variance and its distribution by country groups in selected years

	Males					Females
	1970	1984	1994	2004	2010^a	1970	1984	1994	2004	2010^a
Total cross-country variance, years squared	4.18	16.03	37.12	41.61	30.83	0.99	6.09	14.18	16.51	12.77
Between-group variance, years squared	2.35	14.12	34.24	39.22	28.97	0.3	5.23	12.32	13.19	9.95
EME, %	22.7	25.4	23.4	20.7	20.5	26.0	28.9	25.8	22.4	22.2
CEE, %	0.4	3.9	1.6	0.8	1.8	53.5	11.0	3.0	0.8	1.6
FSU, %	76.9	70.7	75.0	78.5	77.7	20.5	60.1	71.2	76.8	76.2
Between-group standard deviation, years	1.53	3.76	5.85	6.26	5.38	0.55	2.29	3.51	3.63	3.16
Within-group variance, years squared	1.83	1.91	2.88	2.40	1.86	0.69	0.86	1.87	3.31	2.82
EME, %	64.0	70.5	55.3	60.4	69.7	84.3	82.3	82.0	87.4	90.0
CEE, %	4.9	8.4	7.8	14.0	19.7	1.9	4.3	5.6	5.6	5.9
FSU, %	31.1	21.1	36.9	25.6	10.6	13.8	13.4	12.4	7.0	4.0
Within-group standard deviation, years	1.34	1.38	1.66	1.53	1.34	0.81	0.92	1.36	1.79	1.63

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