1988
1993
1998
2003
2008
2011
100
200
500
1,000
2,000
5,000
10,000
40,000
60,000
Yearly Income per Person (in PPP-adjusted 2005 US$; on a logarithmic axis)
Developed Countries
Sub-Saharan Africa
Russia, Central Asia, SE Europe and Middle East & Northern Africa
Latin America & Caribbean
Other Asia
India
China
Stacked
Stream
Expanded
The y-axis is scaled such that the total area under the graph corresponds to the total regional
(or global) population (of those countries that are included in the database)
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ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-prosperity/inequality-between-world-citizens/
Citation to the paper:
Global Income Distribution: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession
, Christoph Lakner and
Branko Milanovic, World Bank Economic Review, Advance Access published August 12, 2015.
Data Visualization by Max Roser and Zdenek Hynek