An interesting look at national vs global income distribution

[jon-nyc]

So the graph maps your position in the National income distribution to your resultant position in the global distribution.

So if you’re at the 20th %ile of income in urban China, you’re around the 55th percentile in global income distribution, whereas a similar position within the US would put you at 80% globally.

Data from 2018.

[jon-nyc]

Here’s what it looked like in 2005.

[taiwan_girl]

Yup, people in the US do not really appreciate what they have.

[89th]

@taiwan_girl said in An interesting look at national vs global income distribution:

Yup, people in the US do not really appreciate what they have.

Absolutely true

[Axtremus]

The “urban” curves for China and India in 2018 don’t look all that far apart from the China/India curves in 2005. It’s like only the urban cities improved their incomes for these two very large nations.

The USA curve may look less over-achieving if we also throw in the curves for Japan, Western Europe, and/or Australia.

Don’t even want to think about what the curves would look like for the oil exporters not engulfed in wars, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UEA, Kuwait, or Brunei.