Tuesday, December 04, 2007

more inequality

Income distribution for various countries: percentage of national income or consumption for successive quintiles of population assigned by income, i.e. quintile A means bottom 20%, quintile B next 20% etc. The bureaucrats at Penn State Uni explain the whole thing, and with better html.

Source here, statistics from World Bank here

Country
A
B
C
D
E
Gini
China
4.3
8.5
13.7
21.7
51.9
0.47
India
8.1
11.3
14.9
20.4
45.3
0.37
Indonesia
8.4
11.9
15.4
21
43.3
0.34
Brazil
2.8
6.4
11
18.7
61.1
0.57
Pakistan
9.3
13
16.3
21.1
40.3
0.31
Bangladesh
8.6
12.1
15.6
21
42.7
0.33
Nigeria
5
9.6
14.5
21.7
49.2
0.44
Mexico
4.3
8.3
12.6
19.7
55.1
0.46
Philippines
5.4
9.1
13.6
21.3
50.6
0.45
Vietnam
9
11.4
14.7
20.5
44.3
0.34
U.S.
5.4
10.7
15.7
22.4
45.8
0.41
Japan
10.6
14.2
17.6
22
35.7
0.25
Germany
8.5
13.7
17.8
23.1
36.9
0.28

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