World Bank estimate of the Gini index of income inequality for the United States, where 0 is perfect equality and 100 is maximal inequality. A structural cost-of-living and welfare indicator: persistently high inequality concentrates the gains from growth and amplifies the welfare cost of inflation for lower-income households. The US Gini has stayed elevated near 41 for three decades.
How to read it
Lower is better — readings above the norm count as worse, so they plot downward here.
Measured value over time. Lower is better here, so the line runs green below the dashed norm and red above it.
Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.
No drivers are linked to this indicator yet.
World Bank estimate of the Gini index of income inequality for the United States, where 0 is perfect equality and 100 is maximal inequality. A structural cost-of-living and welfare indicator: persistently high inequality concentrates the gains from growth and amplifies the welfare cost of inflation for lower-income households. The US Gini has stayed elevated near 41 for three decades.
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