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The x axis of the graph shows the percentiles of the global income distribution. The y axis shows the cumulative growth rate percentage of income. [1] The main conclusion that can be drawn from the graph is that the global top 1% experienced around a 60% increase in income, whereas the income of the global middle increased 70 to 80%.
Lower middle income 51.3 2018 51.27 2019 Albania: Southern Europe: Upper middle income 29.4 2020 29.42 2020 Andorra: Southern Europe: High income 27.96 2016 United Arab Emirates: Western Asia: High income 26.4 2018 25.97 2019 Argentina: South America: Upper middle income 40.7 2022 37.80 2022 Armenia: Western Asia: Upper middle income
In economics, income distribution covers how a country's total GDP is distributed amongst its population. [1] Economic theory and economic policy have long seen income and its distribution as a central concern. Unequal distribution of income causes economic inequality which is a concern in almost all countries around the world. [2] [3]
Derivation of the Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient for global income in 2011. Data from 2005. Points on the Lorenz curve represent statements such as, "the bottom 20% of all households have 10% of the total income." A perfectly equal income distribution would be one in which every person has the same income.
Quartz cited the report, "[S]ince 1980 the top 0.1% have captured as much income growth as the entire bottom half of world's (adult) population. And for the group of people in between the bottom 50% and top 1%—mostly the lower- and middle-income groups in North America and Europe—income growth has been either sluggish or flat."
Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power. July 2011. By G. William Domhoff. Many charts, and sources. See table 4 for wealth distribution by country. See table 7 for income distribution by country. Alan Grayson says United States has fifth-most unequal wealth distribution in world. 10 October 2011. PolitiFact.
Income distribution has always been a central concern of economic theory and economic policy. Classical economists such as Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo were mainly concerned with factor income distribution, that is, the distribution of income between the main factors of production, land, labour and capital.
Countries by total wealth (trillions USD), Credit Suisse Change in real income between 1988 and 2008 at various income percentiles of global income distribution, known as the Elephant Curve. [28] Global income inequality peaked approximately in the 1970s, when world income was distributed bimodally into "rich" and "poor" countries with little ...