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Income ratios include the pre-tax national income share held by top 10% of the population and the ratio of the upper bound value of the ninth decile (i.e. the 10% of people with highest income) to that of the upper bound value of the first decile (the ratio of the average income of the richest 10% to the poorest 10%).
Definitions of the poverty line vary considerably among nations. For example, rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations. Even among rich nations, the standards differ greatly. Thus, the numbers are not comparable among countries. Even when nations do use the same method, some issues may remain. [10]
A map showing Gini coefficients for Wealth within countries for 2021. [1]This is a list of countries by distribution of wealth, including Gini coefficients.Wealth distribution can vary greatly from income distribution in a country (see List of countries by income equality).
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 ...
Economic inequality is an umbrella term for a) income inequality or distribution of income (how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them), b) wealth inequality or distribution of wealth (how the total sum of wealth owned by people is distributed among the owners), and c) consumption inequality (how the total sum of money spent by people is distributed among the spenders).
The greatest cases of inequity typically would involve an impoverished and politically unstable country neighbouring a resource-rich and relatively stable one, although neither may be recognised as a high-income economy. As an extreme example, the GDP per capita for Saudi Arabia, is over 42 times greater to that of its neighbour Yemen.
The country’s warm climate and beaches have made it a popular travel destination and real estate investment hub among Brits ... the rich landlords and the poor tenants,” Sánchez said when he ...
List by UBS and Credit Suisse published in 2023 pertaining to total wealth of countries in 2022 [2] Country (or area) Subregion Region Total wealth (USD bn) % of world Wealth to GDP ratio [3] (2017–19) World: 454,385: 100.0% — Asia and Oceania: Asia and Oceania: 177,824: 39.1% — Northern America: Northern America: 151,170: 33.2% ...