Global economic inequality
Economic Inequality - Our World in Data
This data explorer provides a range of inequality indicators measured according to two different definitions of income obtained from different sources.
Rising inequality: A major issue of our time - Brookings Institution
Wealth inequality within countries is typically much higher than income inequality. It has followed a rising trend across countries since around ...
Inequality – Bridging the Divide - the United Nations
Income inequality between countries has improved, yet income inequality within countries has become worse. Today, 71 percent of the world's population live in ...
Introduction to Inequality - International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Over the past three decades, more than half of the countries and close to 90 percent of advanced economies have seen an increase in income inequality, with some ...
Global Wealth Inequality ... According to the UBS Global Wealth Report, in 2023 the world's richest 1 percent, those with more than $1 million, owned 47.5 percent ...
Global Inequalities - International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The richest 10 percent today snap up 52 percent of all income. The poorest half get just 8.5 percent. The two new measures in the report look at ecological and ...
The facts about global wealth inequality - Oxfam
Wealth inequality is the unequal distribution of wealth (defined as what someone owns) minus liabilities (debt) among individuals across a ...
The history of global economic inequality - Our World in Data
This visualization shows the distribution of incomes between 1988 and 2011. The data was compiled by the economists Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner.
World Inequality Database: Home - WID
Home The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an international academic consortium.
2023 in Nine Charts: A Growing Inequality - World Bank
Nearly 700 million people around the world today live in extreme poverty, meaning they live on less than $2.15 per day. Between 2010 and 2019, this number fell ...
Inequality: Global trends - Development Initiatives
The World Inequality Report estimated that in 2021, the total global income was $122 trillion (measured in 2017 Purchasing Power Parity or PPP), ...
Economic inequality - Wikipedia
Income inequality between nations peaked in the 1970s, when world income was distributed bimodally into "rich" and "poor" countries. Since then, income levels ...
A deadly virus: 5 shocking facts about global extreme inequality
Extreme inequality is a form of economic violence that is perpetrated when structural and systemic policy choices are made for the richest and most powerful ...
What is global inequality? - Oxfam
Global inequality can be measured and understood in many ways. Some economic measures focus on the share of income that middle-income groups of ...
Global economic inequality: insights
The richest 10% of the global population currently makes 52% of global incomes, whereas the poorest half of the population makes 8% of it.
Inequality and Shared Prosperity - World Bank
Around one-fifth of the world's population lives in countries with high inequality. Today, high levels of income or consumption inequality are concentrated ...
Oxfam: 8 ways to bridge the global inequality gap
The inequality gap is widening, with more than two-thirds (69%) of global wealth held by developed nations, while less than a third can be found ...
Some recent studies have also indicated a tendency for income inequality to grow in a number of countries. Thus there certainly are reasons to wonder if income ...
Global income inequality: How big is gap between richest and ...
The richest 10% of the global population currently take home 52% of the income. The poorest half of the global population? Well they earn just 8%.
Global Income Inequality: What It Is And Why It Matters?
in economics (income distribution) from the University of Belgrade (1987). He writes on methodology and empirics of inequality; poverty and social policy in ...