He is right, up to a point. The concentration of world income in the wealthiest quintile (fifth) of the world's population is indeed shocking and cannot meet any plausible test of legitimacy. The ...

Motio Research's initial estimate of U.S. median household income in December 2024 is $82,537. Read more here.

This dashboard shows the distribution of income at a country and regional ... while the black dashed curve measures the accumulated share of income earned. The SEDLAC (CEDLAS and WB) harmonization is ...

the Gini coefficient (see Chart 1). The Gini is a summary statistic that gauges the average difference in income between any two individuals from the income distribution. It takes the value zero if ...

The Growth Incidence Curve (GIC) captures graphically the annualized growth rate of per capita income for every percentile of the income distribution between two points in time. Over the last decade, ...