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The Equality Index is the arithmetic mean between the Legal Index and the Public Opinion Index. [9] The data as of February 3, 2025: Map of countries by the LGBT Equality Index, as of February 3, 2025 Map of countries by the LGBT Legal Index (2025) Map of countries by the LGBT Public Opinion Index (2025)
States and territories are sorted by the share of the lowest quintile in aggregate household income, i.e. the share of household income of 20% of the poorest households in the total household income. Due to different methodologies by which the United States Census Bureau and the EPI have calculated their results, the data should not be compared.
Since 2002, the Corporate Equality Index has been published by the Human Rights Campaign. It was originally modeled after the Gay and Lesbian Values Index, a rating system that was designed by journalist Grant Lukenbill. [6] When the HRC modified it, it became a 100-point system, as opposed to Grant's 10-point one. [7]
Federated States of Micronesia: Micronesia: Lower middle income 40.1 2013 40.06 2013 Gabon: Middle Africa: Upper middle income 38.0 2017 38.02 2017 United Kingdom: Northern Europe: High income 32.4 2021 34.24 2022 35.4 2021 Georgia: Eastern Europe: Upper middle income 33.5 2022 36.93 2021 Ghana: Western Africa: Lower middle income 43.5
Residents in these 10 states have the most equal chance of receiving an education and employment, regardless of their race, gender or disability status.
Efforts to close gender gaps in pay slowed so dramatically in the past year that men and women may not reach equality for another 170 years.
The United States has the highest level of income inequality in the Western world, according to a 2018 study by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. The United States has forty million people living in poverty, and more than half of these people live in "extreme" or "absolute" poverty.
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