1. 1988
  2. 1993
  3. 1998
  4. 2003
  5. 2008
  6. 2011
1002005001,0002,0005,00010,00040,00060,000Yearly Income per Person (in PPP-adjusted 2005 US$; on a logarithmic axis)Developed CountriesSub-Saharan AfricaRussia, Central Asia, SE Europe and Middle East & Northern AfricaLatin America & CaribbeanOther AsiaIndiaChinaStackedStreamExpandedThe 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)
This visualisation is licensed under aCC BY-SA license. You are welcome to share but please refer to its source where youfind more information: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 andBranko Milanovic, World Bank Economic Review, Advance Access published August 12, 2015.Data Visualization by Max Roser and Zdenek Hynek