Talk:List of countries by income equality

VOTE!! - HDI in Infobox#Countries|country infobox/template?
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a standard UN measure/rank of how developed a country is or is not. It is a composite index based on GDP per capita (PPP), literacy, life expectancy, and school enrollment. However, as it is a composite index/rank, some may challenge its usefulness or applicability as information.

Thus, the following question is put to a vote:

Should any, some, or all of the following be included in the Wikipedia Infobox#Countries|country infobox/template:
 * (1) Human Development Index (HDI) for applicable countries, with year;
 * (2) Rank of country’s HDI;
 * (3) Category of country’s HDI (high, medium, or low)?

YES / NO / UNDECIDED/ABSTAIN - vote here

Thanks!

E Pluribus Anthony 01:52, 20 September 2005

Interesting article by BBC News at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1763410.stm regarding world income inequality. Vivaldi4Stagioni 21:20, 25 February 2006

Sorry for not getting the formatting correct here, but I think it would be valuable if someone added an extra column on the left side that had 1 though however many countries there are, that way when you reorganize the list by one of the values you can get rankings. I counted down the us as like 74th (UN listing) because I wanted to know, a simple 1-170ish on the side would provide instant rankings and make it easier for people referencing the article to list a number in the country data on country pages as well as the high, medium, or low qualifier of GINI. Thanks.

the wrong map of russia
the wrong map of russia

where is crimea?

Add regions/continents?
It would be good to see such aggregated data here too. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 03:55, 15 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I concur; my humble opinion, i would suggest the following regions:
 * North American (US/Canada)
 * Latin America (incl. Mexico)
 * South America
 * Northern Europe (Scandinavia)
 * Western Europe
 * Southern Europe
 * South Eastern Europe
 * Central Europe
 * Eastern Europe
 * Causasian Europe
 * Northern Africa
 * Western Africa
 * Eastern Africa
 * Central Africa
 * Southern Africa
 * Middle East
 * Central Asia
 * Indian Subcontinent
 * South East Asia
 * Eastern Asia
 * Oceania
 * Blue Staar (talk) 20:07, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

ge(-1) is listed at WIID as "gem1", where "m" stands for "minus".
That's how ge(-1) is designated at the top of the ge(-1) column in the WIID database.

WIID stands for World Income Inequality Database. It's published by the United Nations University, & is available online, by googling "WIID", or World Income Inequality Database.

It's in download form. There are various versions of it listed there for downloading.

The most useful one is the most recent one that contains the word "Companion". Its description offers some features that the others might not have.

You'll find the income-share of the bottom 1% as the 1st entry in the section that gives the income-share of each percent of the population.

You'll find the income-share of the bottom 5% & the bottom 20% is listed in a separate section for a few such numbers.

The "sections" that I speak of are just regions of table-columns that you reach as you scroll toward the right. ge(-1), column-headed as "gem1) is in an early (leftomost) section that lists it & other one-number aggregations.

Scrolling down in the table, you go through various regions in which countries are alphabetically-listed. You may have to scroll through a lot of those regions to find the one in which the country you're looking for is alphabetically-listed.

But it's well worth the effort, given the wealth of information in the WIID tables.

For each country, the information is given over a wide range of years, each year having its own line in the table (with each line going across all the columns, each with different information for that country.

For most countries, the information goes up to around 2018 or 2020. ...& starts usually around 1950 or so, with, as I said, a separate line for each year. 68.185.3.44 (talk) 23:54, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Should Hong Kong be in a table labelled 'countries', given it self-identifies as a part of the PRC?
It seems relevant as it is the highest Asian country by Gini metric Mandragara (talk) 07:56, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Several sections in the article has "scripts" that appear to be very broken
I don't know how wikipedia works, so I don't really know how to fix this issue. If anyone is willing to, please fix these scripts whenever possible. Thanks. 139.98.2.57 (talk) 07:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Incomplete data: Gini coefficient, before taxes and transfers
The table labelled as "Gini coefficient, before taxes and transfers" does not seem to have complete data. A lot of the countries is listed as having a Gigi coefficient of 0. Ulrik Nyman (talk) 20:46, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Errors in UN R/P ratios
Some of the R/P ratios are wrong, as from a mathematical point of view, the R/P 20% cannot be greater than the R/P 10%. This is however the fact in several countries (the ones that i've noticed anyhow): - Brazil - Turkey - Japan - Romania The 2 are probably just inverted at copy/input. If any author can relate and correct it please, as it is misleading. Thanks. Blue Staar (talk) 20:16, 5 April 2024 (UTC)