The Gini index, or Gini coefficient, measures income inequality in nations by determining how income is distributed across their populations.

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Referring to a World Bank brief, the government has claimed India is world’s ‘fourth most equal country’. What does this ...

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The Gini coefficient has many advantages. It is easy to calculate, allows changes in inequality to be tracked over time, and enables cross-region and cross-country comparisons. But the Gini ...

The Gini coefficient measures how far the actual Lorenz curve for a society's income or wealth is from the line of equality. Both the Lorenz curve and the line of equality are plotted on a graph.

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Gini coefficient ranking of 2016 suggests that Bolivia and China were some of the most unequal countries in the world in 2016. There are no data on Gini coefficient ranking of 2017.