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Income Inequality

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Income inequality by country measured by the GINI Index. A higher number indicates greater inequality.

The World Bank

Global income inequality by the G I N I index. Dark blue for the highest inequality (over 50 percent), seen in Brazil, South Africa, and Namibia. Light blue shows the lowest (below 30 percent), seen in central Europe, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Algeria.

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Countries

Income Inequality

Literacy Rate

Years of Schooling

Language Families

Class

Rank

GINI index percentage

Class

Rank

Percent

Class

Rank

Years

Afro-Asiatic

Altaic

Amerindian and Indo-European

Austro-Asiatic

Austronesian

Basque

Caucasian

Dravidian

Eskimo-Aleut

Indo-European

Japanese

Khoisan

Korean

Niger-Congo

Nilo-Saharan

Paleo-Siberian

Papuan

Sino-Tibetan

Tai-Kadai

Uralic

2.96%39.1%86.3%
79.9%
62.1%46.5%
44.5%81.0%4.67%96.1%62.7%1.37%
2.05%38.5%74.5%4.57%4.59%
97.2%4.35%1.49%61.0%39.2%
24.0%24.7%
100%3.88%5.61%65.9%
4.98%7.29%41.8%
17.1%76.1%5.05%
31.7%8.18%7.63%16.8%49.9%39.0%
80.3%30.5%51.4%20.1%
56.6%99.8%18.8%27.4%70.9%27.4%
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