New York Times Economix: The Haves and the Have-Nots
This is a fascinating chart, but it is like one of those pictures with all the dots. You look at it long enough, and a dolphin appears.
Across the horizontal axis are ventiles (and no, they aren't related to Gentiles.) Each ventile is 1/20, or 5%, of the population, ranked from least to most income. The verticle axis is the percentile of the world income distribution (All income is in inflation-adjusted international dollars.)
So, the poorest ventile in the USA still receives more than 68% of the rest of the world. Brazil has a wide income disparity, with the bottom ventile at the bottom of the world distribution and the top ventile nearly on a par with the USA's top ventile. India's top ventile doesn't even make it the level of the lowest ventile in the USA.
Among other things, we can see how much greater the income inequality in emerging giants is, but their lines will likely mirror the USA line in the coming years.
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