List of countries by inequality-adjusted income explained

This is list of countries by their inequality adjusted income, as defined and measured by the United Nations Development Programme.[1] The income index is one component of the Human Development Index, but is also used separately. The adjustment of income for inequality based on the Gini coefficient was first proposed by Amartya Sen in 1976.[2] The adjustment was first applied by the UN on income data in 1993, before later being expanded to the general HDI.[3] All data is from 2013.

!Country!Inequality-adjusted income index
Norway.871
Australia.760
Switzerland.824
Netherlands.806
United States.609
Germany.781
Canada.785
Denmark.794
Ireland.761
Sweden.803
Iceland.783
United Kingdom.719
South Korea.704
Japan.772
Israel.693
France.765
Luxembourg.837
Belgium.792
Austria.789
Finland.798
Slovenia.755
Italy.701
Spain.673
Czech Republic.737
Greece.697
Cyprus.719
Estonia.681
Poland.666
Lithuania.673
Slovakia.740
Malta.727
Portugal.664
Chile.516
Hungary.703
Croatia.653
Latvia.654
Argentina.560
Uruguay.573
Montenegro.669
Bahamas.612
Belarus.685
Romania.645
Russia.631
Bulgaria.618
Palau.565
Mauritius.621
Trinidad and Tobago.653
Panama.494
Lebanon.538
Venezuela.556
Costa Rica.483
Turkey.616
Kazakhstan.695
Mexico.500
Sri Lanka.550
Iran.395
Azerbaijan.730
Serbia.618
Jordan.564
Georgia.474
Brazil.452
Peru.495
Ukraine.593
North Macedonia.563
Belize.426
Bosnia and Herzegovina.548
Fiji.500
Armenia.567
Thailand.488
China.505
Albania.558
Jamaica.465
Ecuador.472
Colombia.420
Suriname.475
Dominican Republic.500
Mongolia.588
Maldives.535
Palestine.507
Indonesia.559
Botswana.336
Egypt.602
Paraguay.428
Gabon.617
Bolivia.388
Moldova.480
El Salvador.427
Uzbekistan.478
Philippines.470
Syria.500
Iraq.626
Vietnam.502
Guyana.474
Cape Verde.452
Micronesia.201
Kyrgyzstan.391
Guatemala.367
Namibia.216

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Inequality-adjusted income index Human Development Reports. hdr.undp.org. 2019-12-17.
  2. Sen. Amartya. March 1976. Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement. Econometrica. 44. 2. 219–231. 10.2307/1912718. 1912718.
  3. Shaikh. Anwar. Ragab. Amr. May 2008. The Vast Majority Income (VMI): A New Measure of Global Inequality. Policy Research Brief . en.