This dashboard shows the distribution of income at a country and regional level for different years. The horizontal axis denotes the percentage of the population, while the vertical axis shows the ...

By the end of the century the hired hands—the top executives—shared with capital owners the highest part of the income distribution. In Western English-speaking countries, inequality declined until ...

Does it matter what is happening to world income distribution (among all 6.2 billion people, regardless of where they live)? Amartya Sen, the recent Nobel laureate in economics, warns that arguing ...