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Did You Know? (income inequality)
[Table 11.1. Summary of changes in income inequality and poverty]
[Figure 1.1. Gini coefficients of income inequality in OECD countries, mid-2000s] [Figure 1.2. Trends in income inequality]
[Table 1.1. and Table 1.2. Trends in real household income by quintiles, Gains and losses of income shares by income quintiles] |
Did You Know? (poverty)
[Figure 5.1. Relative poverty rates for different income thresholds, mid-2000s]
[Table 5.1. Poverty rates for people of working age and for households with a working-age head, by household characteristics] [Table 5.2. Poverty rates for children and people in households with children by household characteristics]
[Figure 5.8. Poverty and employment rates, around mid-2000s]
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Income Distribution and Poverty data The Gapminder Graphs allow you to unveil the interactions between income Distribution and Poverty data over time. You can select any two indicators for the axes in the graph, and the size of bubbles reflect the size of a third indicator of your choice. Then you can play with time. You can select countries and track and compare their performance. Key features of OECD Data in Income distribution from Annex 1.A1 of Growing Unequal? (OECD, 2008)
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Gapminder dynamic chart (by default): do countries have the poverty rate they are prepared to pay for?
At the other end of the spectrum, Korea, Mexico, Turkey and the United States spent 2% or less of national income on benefits and had 12-15% of the working age population in poverty. It is easy to conclude that countries have the poverty rate that they are prepared to pay for. In Mexico and Turkey, higher tax revenues – enabling an expansion of social programmes – would probably reduce inequality and poverty. But for most OECD countries, the answer is more complex...
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