Economy > Poverty and inequality Stats: compare key data on New Zealand & United States
Definitions
- Income inequality 1993-2011: Income inequality 1993-2011 (latest available).
- Poorest 20%'s share in national income or consumption: Percentage of country's total income or consumption that belongs to the poorest 20% of its citizens.
- Poorest's share in national income or consumption: Percentage of country's total income or consumption that belongs to the poorest 5% of its citizens.
- Richest 10% to poorest 10% ratio: The ratio of average income of the richest 10% of the population to the average income of the poorest 10% of the population.
- Richest quintile to poorest quintile ratio: The ratio of average income of the richest 20% of the population to the average income of the poorest 20% of the population.
SOURCES: Wikipedia: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Indicators) ("World Development Indicators" . World Bank . 2013-07-01 . Retrieved 2013-07-03 .); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/reports/14/hdr2013_en_complete.pdf, United Nations Development Programme, 2013. Table 3, p. 152 ff.
