Public attention to economic inequality has grown a lot over the last twenty years. Alongside, the available data has greatly improved too: estimates now cover many more countries and longer time periods, and new international databases have helped make the data more comparable and much more accessible. Where our view was once limited to individual countries, we can increasingly take a global perspective on inequality.
At the same time, the wide range of sources and metrics now available can be difficult to navigate. There are many different approaches to measuring inequality, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, and it can be hard to know how they relate — or where to start.
This page is designed to make the range of inequality data easier to understand. Here you’ll find all our data, charts, and writing on economic inequality, organized around three key international databases: the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform, the Luxembourg Income Study, and the World Inequality Database…
Source: Our World in Data – A project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
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- Beef production in Brazil has been the largest driver of global deforestation in recent decades
- The rise of electoral democracy
- Which countries have already passed peak population, and when will the rest do so?
- 138 million children are in child labor. What does this actually mean?
Climate Change
- Air conditioning is almost universal in the US and Japan — but not elsewhere
- Hannah Ritchie’s book, Clearing the Air, is coming out in paperback in September
- How do we track a changing climate?
