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South America: High income 47.17% 2022 2.24 2022 2.162 2022 United States: Northern America: High income 48.27% 2022 1.42 2022 1.762 2022 6.3 2022 Uzbekistan: Central Asia: Lower middle income 48.30% 2022 2.88 2003 2.495 2022 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Caribbean: Upper middle income 48.52% 2022 Venezuela: South America —
The top 10% of wealthy Americans now control 60% of the nation’s wealth, while the poorer half of the country holds only 6%, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office.
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 ...
Although some spoke out in favor of moderate inequality as a form of incentive, [296] [297] others warned against excessive levels of inequality, including Robert J. Shiller, (who called rising economic inequality "the most important problem that we are facing now today"), [298] former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan, ("This is ...
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 ...
New Orleans has the highest income inequality of major U.S. cities. While the highest earners make 7.8 times as much as the lowest earners in New Orleans, they still earn lower than average ...
Dividend payouts to shareholders by companies in the S&P 500 reached a new record in 2023, and that number is projected to grow in 2024, according to data from the CME Group.
The World Economic Forum compiled its findings from the Global Social Mobility Index in its Global Social Mobility Report 2020 which includes information about the current state of economic inequality and provides recommendations for governments and businesses to alleviate inequalities. [1] This section provides a summary of the report’s ...