A comparative analysis of inequality statistics: South Africa vs the world

Lake Michelle and Masiphumelele, Cape Town.

This article gives a brief overview of income and distributions across different countries around the world.

Specifically, we focus our comparisons on average annual income and accumulated wealth for the top 1%, top 10%, middle 40% and bottom 50% for the countries listed in the 2022 World Inequality Report compiled with data from 2021.

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