![]() Developed-market economies such as those in Germany, France, and Sweden tend to have a higher GDP per capita and lower Gini coefficients. A higher Gini coefficient means greater inequality. The number ranges from zero to one, with zero representing perfect equality (everyone has the same income) and one representing perfect inequality (one person earns the entire country’s income and everyone else has nothing). ![]() ![]() The Gini coefficient is a measurement of the income distribution within a country that aims to show the gap between the rich and the poor. ![]() The US has a serious inequality problem according to a huge study by Credit Suisse: The top 0.1% of households now hold about the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90%.
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