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Income inequality in India refers to the unequal distribution of wealth and income among its citizens. According to the CIA World Factbook , the Gini coefficient of India, which is a measure of income distribution inequality, was 35.2 in 2011, ranking 95th out of 157. [ 2 ]
Inequality in education is broken down into different types: regional inequality, inequality by sex, inequality by social stratification, inequality by parental income, inequality by parent occupation, and many more. Measuring educational efficacy varies by country and even provinces/states within the country.
Inequality between urban and rural areas, and where rural poverty is most prevalent, is in countries where the adult population has the lowest amount of education. [26] This was found in the Sahelian countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger where regional inequality is 33 percent, 19.4 percent, and 21.3 percent, respectively. In each of these ...
Income inequality is a discussion that’s been surfacing off and on for years now, but thanks to presidential politics, it’s once again in the headlines.
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 ...
Global share of wealth by wealth group, Credit Suisse, 2021 Share of income of the top 1% for selected developed countries, 1975 to 2015. Economic inequality is an umbrella term for three concepts: income inequality, how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them; wealth inequality, how the total sum of wealth owned by people is distributed among the owners; and ...
Because of poverty, "Students from low-income families are 2.4 times more likely to drop out than middle-income kids, and over 10 times more likely than high-income peers to drop out." [ 151 ] For children with low resources, the risk factors are similar to others such as juvenile delinquency rates, higher levels of teenage pregnancy , and ...
24.3% of the population earned less than US$1 (PPP, around US$0.25 in nominal terms) a day in 2005, down from 42.1% in 1981. [8] [9] 41.6% of its population (540 million people approx.) is living below the new international poverty line of $1.25 (PPP) per day, down from 59.8% in 1981. [8]