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2022 37.80 2022 Armenia: Western Asia: Upper middle income 27.9 2022 27.94 2021 Australia: Australia and New Zealand: High income 34.3 2018 34.33 2018 Austria: Western Europe: High income 30.7 2021 30.70 2022 28.1 2021 Azerbaijan: Western Asia: Upper middle income 26.6 2005 26.55 2005 Burundi: Eastern Africa: Low income 37.5
This is list of countries by their inequality adjusted income, as defined and measured by the United Nations Development Programme. [1] The income index is one component of the Human Development Index, but is also used separately. [2] The adjustment of income for inequality based on the Gini coefficient was first proposed by Amartya Sen in 1976 ...
World Inequality Report is a report by the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics that provides estimates of global income and wealth inequality based on the most recent findings compiled by the World Inequality Database (WID). WID, also referred to as WID.world, is an open source database, that is part of an international ...
This altered version of Gini coefficient became the most commonly used inequality index in upcoming years. [19] According to data from OECD, Gini coefficient was first officially used country-wide in Canada in the 1970s. Canadian index of income inequality ranged from 0.303 to 0.284 from 1976 to the end of 1980s.
This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for", whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or ...
The table below is for 2008, 2018, 2019 and 2021.The GDP data is based on data from the World Bank. [3] The population data is based on data from the UN. [4] The Wealth Gini coefficients from 2008 are based on a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Climate risks dominate concerns as the world enters the third year of the pandemic, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest global risks report. Climate failure and social inequality top ...
The 2022 World Inequality Report, a four-year research project organized by the economists Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman, shows that "the world is marked by a very high level of income inequality and an extreme level of wealth inequality". [10]