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Answered By: Bobray Bordelon
Last Updated: Mar 19, 2024 Views: 758
- World Income Inequality Database
- From United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research
- Provides various measures of income inequality for 175 countries or areas in some cases dating back to pre-1960.
- World Inequality Database
- Aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.
- Earliest data from 1800. Coverage differs by country.
- A consistent dataset for the net income distribution for 190 countries, aggregated to 32 geographical regions and the world from 1958–2015 (Data can be found at https://zenodo.org/record/7093997
- Global Repository of Income Dynamics—GRID—is an open-access international database that provides a wealth of micro statistics on income inequality and income dynamics at the individual level. All statistics in the database have been computed from administrative records data on earnings histories from each country and harmonized for comparability. There are currently 13 countries in GRID: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The plan is to expand the coverage of GRID to 25+ countries.
- SWIID: The Standardized World Income Inequality Database
- Incorporates comparable Gini indices of disposable and market income inequality for 196 countries for as many years as possible from 1960 to the present; it also includes information on absolute and relative redistribution.
- See Global and Regional Gini Coefficients from Darvas, Zsolt (2016) ‘Some are more equal than others: new estimates of global and regional inequality’, Working Paper 2016/08, Bruegel, 7 November 2016 This dataset includes annual data from 1988-2020 (or 1980-2020 for EU15 countries) on global and regional Gini coefficient estimates, using various methodologies.
- All The Ginis 1948-2017
- Represents a compilation and adaptation of income or consumption Gini coefficients (calculated across households or household per capita; on gross or net basis) retrieved from 9 sources. The dataset was intentionally created in a flexible format so that every user can decide to use just one or two of these sources or to combine several sources in a particular way. The database covers the period 1948-2017 and includes 5,121 Ginis from 201 countries or territories, all coming from nationally representative household surveys.
- Gini Index (World Bank estimate)
- Lists the latest Gini coefficients and those for previous points in time.
- See the Chartbook of Economic Inequality. Presents the empirical evidence about long-run changes in economic inequality. The chartbook covers 25 countries – often over the course of more than one hundred years. For each country a chart shows how different dimensions of economic inequality have changed over time.
- World Development Report
- Human Development Report
- Print volumes in Firestone Trustee Reading Room and Stokes Library, call number HD72 .H85
- Also consult the regional Human Development Reports.
- Measuring Income Inequality Database
- For a historical dataset covering 1890-1996.
- Note may contain the few numbers existing prior to the 1940s.
- National and regional inequality data for Argentina, Brazil, China, Cuba, Europe, India, Russia, Turkey, and the United States. National and industrial inequality data for Taiwan.
- Distributional National Accounts. Data on pre- and post-tax income and wealth distribution in the US for 1960-2019
- University of Texas Inequality Project
- State, economy, and society in Western Europe, 1815-1975
- For historical European figures.
- Located in Firestone Trustee Reading Room, call number HA1107.F46.
- Handbook of Income Distribution
- Luxembourg Income Study Key Figures
- Provides summary level national statistics as well as gender inequality statistics.
- Realtime Inequality https://realtimeinequality.org/ “provides timely statistics on how economic growth benefits each group. Statistics are updated each quarter when new GDP numbers come out. Our income and wealth statistics distribute all national income and household wealth across groups” for the United States.
- For the subnational United States data also see the FAQ on income inequality.
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