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List of countries by income inequality based on Pre-tax national income share held by top 10% of the population, Income Decile 1 and Interdecile P90/P10; Country/Territory UN Region World Bank Income group (2024) Pre-tax national income Top 10% share [a] Income Decile 1 [b] Interdecile P90/P10 [c] World Inequality Database [9] Year UNU-WIDER [3 ...
Globally the poorest 50% hold 2% of the world's wealth, [note 4] compared with 76% for the richest 10%, of which 38% goes to the richest 1%, and 12% to the richest 0.01%. [note 5] As a result, wealth inequality will have increased by 50% between the poorest 50% and the richest 0.01% between 2008 and 2022. [30]
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" and that these inequalities "seem to be about as great today as they ...
According to the Federal Reserve, this represents one of the largest three-year rises in inequality in recent US history. If your annual salary is around the median, or about $70,000, the cards ...
Americans have the highest income inequality in the rich world and over the past 20–30 years Americans have also experienced the greatest increase in income inequality among rich nations. The more detailed the data we can use to observe this change, the more skewed the change appears to be ... the majority of large gains are indeed at the top ...
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."
The World Inequality Report includes discussions on potential future academic research as well as content useful for public debates and policy related to economic inequality. The first report, entitled World Inequality Report 2018, which was released on December 14, 2017, at the Paris School of Economics during the first WID.world Conference ...
The two world wars were very big factors in keeping inequality low at the time. The rich were being heavily taxed by governments to finance the two conflicts, lowering inequality. After the wars, more socialist movements and trade unions emerged demanding better pay and working conditions, giving workers more power and lowering inequality.