Talk:List of countries by income inequality

VOTE!! - HDI in Infobox#Countries|country infobox/template?

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a standard UN measure/rank of how developed a country is or is not. It is a composite index based on GDP per capita (PPP), literacy, life expectancy, and school enrollment. However, as it is a composite index/rank, some may challenge its usefulness or applicability as information.

Thus, the following question is put to a vote:

Should any, some, or all of the following be included in the Wikipedia Infobox#Countries|country infobox/template:

(1) Human Development Index (HDI) for applicable countries, with year;

(2) Rank of country’s HDI;

(3) Category of country’s HDI (high, medium, or low)?

YES / NO / UNDECIDED/ABSTAIN - vote here

Thanks!

E Pluribus Anthony 01:52, 20 September 2005

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Interesting article by BBC News at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1763410.stm regarding world income inequality. Vivaldi4Stagioni 21:20, 25 February 2006

Sorry for not getting the formatting correct here, but I think it would be valuable if someone added an extra column on the left side that had 1 though however many countries there are, that way when you reorganize the list by one of the values you can get rankings. I counted down the us as like 74th (UN listing) because I wanted to know, a simple 1-170ish on the side would provide instant rankings and make it easier for people referencing the article to list a number in the country data on country pages as well as the high, medium, or low qualifier of GINI. Thanks.

the wrong map of russia

the wrong map of russia

where is crimea?

Add regions/continents?

It would be good to see such aggregated data here too. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:55, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

I concur; my humble opinion, i would suggest the following regions:

• North American (US/Canada)
• Latin America (incl. Mexico)
• South America
• Northern Europe (Scandinavia)
• Western Europe
• Southern Europe
• South Eastern Europe
• Central Europe
• Eastern Europe
• Causasian Europe
• Northern Africa
• Western Africa
• Eastern Africa
• Central Africa
• Southern Africa
• Middle East
• Central Asia
• Indian Subcontinent
• South East Asia
• Eastern Asia
• Oceania

Blue Staar (talk) 20:07, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Several sections in the article has "scripts" that appear to be very broken

I don't know how wikipedia works, so I don't really know how to fix this issue. If anyone is willing to, please fix these scripts whenever possible. Thanks. 139.98.2.57 (talk) 07:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Incomplete data: Gini coefficient, before taxes and transfers

The table labelled as "Gini coefficient, before taxes and transfers" does not seem to have complete data. A lot of the countries is listed as having a Gigi coefficient of 0. Ulrik Nyman (talk) 20:46, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Errors in UN R/P ratios

Some of the R/P ratios are wrong, as from a mathematical point of view, the R/P 20% cannot be greater than the R/P 10%. This is however the fact in several countries (the ones that i've noticed anyhow): - Brazil - Turkey - Japan - Romania The 2 are probably just inverted at copy/input. If any author can relate and correct it please, as it is misleading. Thanks. Blue Staar (talk) 20:16, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

table

Should world not be at the top of the table? Sigmatoiletfortniterizz (talk) 20:02, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

idk how to fix it someone do it Sigmatoiletfortniterizz (talk) 20:03, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 26 October 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 18:47, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

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List of countries by income equality → List of countries by income inequality – The correct name of the measure is "income inequality" Florin Talasman (talk) 17:59, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

• Strong support. Per nom, per WP:COMMONNAME (see Google Ngram for example), which is also the official name in this case, and is also the only term used in the article. "Income equality" does not appear in this article except in the title. "Income equality" appears only once in the body of the Gini coefficient article as part of a technical definition and twice where linking to this list.--MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 00:19, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Support - we don't generally move pages based on blind assertions of correctness, but the COMMONNAME argument is more than convincing. Honestly, the ngrams are so far and away in favor of the proposed title I would support a snow move here. estar8806 (talk) ★ 00:36, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.