Survey limitations and omissions of the ultra‑rich and the most vulnerable are leading to a skewed picture of inequality ...

HIV care and its related outcomes in South Carolina were defined by racial disparities, specifically in retention in care, despite efforts to end the HIV epidemic.

Referring to a World Bank brief, the government has claimed India is world’s ‘fourth most equal country’. What does this ...

Arkansas ranked eighth out of 50 states for income inequality, with the top 5% of the population holding a 23.37% share of wealth, while the bottom 20% have a 3.16% share.

The Gini coefficient incorporates the detailed shared data into a single statistic, which summarizes the dispersion of income across the entire income distribution.

And which countries in Europe have the highest disparities between rich and poor? UBS’s report covers 12 European countries and uses the Gini coefficient as the primary measure of inequality.

Costa Rica confronts structural violence as political conflicts and social divisions escalate. A new report highlights President Chaves’s confrontational style, rising femicides, and weakening ...

The most common way to measure inequality is the Gini coefficient. This ranks a country’s income inequality between zero and one. Zero means everyone in the country gets the same income; one ...

Finally, we have spot-checked house-based Gini coefficients against Gini coefficients estimated from documentary evidence when feasible, generally finding good correspondence.

The Gini coefficient is a single index measure that can be expressed on a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 represents perfect equality in income distribution and 100 represents perfect inequality.

States are ranked on their Gini index score, from the most equal states, or those with the lowest Gini coefficient, to the least equal states, or those with the highest Gini score.