Visualizing Economics » CIA http://www.visualizingeconomics.com Making the "Invisible Hand" Visible Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:00:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 GDP per Capita vs Gini Index http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2006/01/04/gdp-per-capital-vs-gini-index/ http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2006/01/04/gdp-per-capital-vs-gini-index/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:30:24 +0000 Catherine http://mulbrand.setupmyblog.com/2006/01/03/gdp-per-capital-vs-gini-index/ GDPCapitaVSGini
Scatter plot of 113 countries comparing wealth vs income inequality. The red square is the United States.

The L shape of the scatter plot was not what I expected. However, many countries don’t have a recent Gini index (1987 to 2003) while GDP per capita is available for 2003/2004 for most countries.

Definition of Gini index a measure of income inequality.
0 = equal distrubution
100 = one person has everything

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