Submitted by Born-Worth-5611 t3_yxm73l in Futurology
HomarusSimpson t1_iwqrvws wrote
Reply to comment by Meliodas1981 in To save the world or to shape a better world, what is the most critical action to take? by Born-Worth-5611
A popular belief, but untrue:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
Year World Gini coefficients
1988 0.80
1993 0.76
1998 0.74
2003 0.72
2008 0.70
2013 0.65
Lower is less unequal. Each period has gone down.
> ..... a continuous decline since 1988. This is attributed to globalization increasing incomes for billions of poor people, mostly in countries like China and India. Developing countries like Brazil have also improved basic services like health care, education, and sanitation; others like Chile and Mexico have enacted more progressive tax policies
butts_kapinsky t1_iws5ytc wrote
Honestly hard to think of anything more misleading than this comment. Income disparity on a global scale, it turns out, is pretty complex. Some places have increased inequality, some haven't.
Interestingly, China and India's development have brought down global Gini, while the in-country inequality has increased. Brazil is about as wildly disparate in it's wealth as it ever has been, though it's gini coefficient has risen slightly.
Mexico is one of the few places that has actually managed to reduce their inequality in the past decades, yet it remains among the worst offenders.
HomarusSimpson t1_iws7nmp wrote
random selection, a lot of countries don't have much data.
The graph you linked doesn't exactly slope up for many countries, overall it's as many countries going down as up
butts_kapinsky t1_iwtsnda wrote
Not really. Take a closer look.
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