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"Inside the World Bank's new inequality indicator: The number of countries with high inequality". World Bank. {}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ; Global Peace Index Map of Gini data for 2007–2010; Shadow economies all over the world : new estimates for 162 countries from 1999 to 2007. Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn, Claudio E ...
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 ...
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. [5] The Wealth Gini numbers for 2018, 2019, and 2021 come from the Global Wealth Databook by Credit Suisse. [6] [7 ...
This is a list of countries by nominal GDP per capita. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living; [1] [2] however, this is inaccurate because GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income. Measures of personal income include average wage, real income, median income, disposable income and GNI per capita.
The IHDI, estimated for the world and specific countries, captures the losses in human development due to inequality in health, education and income. Losses in all three dimensions vary across countries, ranging from just a few percent (e.g. Czech Republic and Slovenia) up to over 40% (e.g. Angola and Comoros). Overall loss takes into account ...
The World Economic Forum finds that the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which has involved rapid globalization and technological advancements, has led to increased inequality. [1] For example, the World Economic Forum notes that the top percent of US earners made 158% more in 2018 than in 1979, whereas the bottom 90 percent of earners made only ...
There are many natural economic reasons for GDP-per-capita to vary between jurisdictions (e.g. places rich in oil and gas tend to have high GDP-per-capita figures). However, it is increasingly being recognized that tax havens , or corporate tax havens , have distorted economic data which produces artificially high, or inflated, GDP-per-capita ...
As of October 1st, 2021, the highest-income countries—as classified by the World Bank—had a per-capita vaccination rate of 125.3 vaccinations per 100 people, representing nearly 3-fold higher than the rate for lower-middle-income countries of 45.3 per 100, and 30-fold higher than lower-income countries with 4.2 per 100."