Data and Code for: "Too young to die”. Deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality

Most measures of deprivation concentrate on deprivation among the living<br>population and, thus, ignore premature mortality. This omission leads to a<br>severe bias in the evaluation of deprivation. We propose two different measures<br>that combine information on poverty and premature mortality of a population<br>in a meaningful manner. These indices satisfy a number of desirable properties<br>unmet by all other measures combining early mortality and poverty. Moreover,<br>one of these measures is readily computable with available data and easily<br>interpretable. We show that omitting premature mortality leads to an under-<br>estimation of total deprivation in 2015 of at least 36% at the world level. At<br>the country level, the evolution of deprivation may differ substantially from the<br>picture obtained when the impact of premature mortality is ignored.<br><br>