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Global Income Inequality 1988-2002
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Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola...and 190 more, 1988 - 2002
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Reference ID
WLD_2002_GII_v01_M
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48529/rpvp-j765
Producer(s)
Branko L. Milanovic
Collection(s)
Development Research Microdata Fragility, Conflict and Violence
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Study website
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Nov 20, 2013
Last modified
Jun 13, 2022
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  • Data Collection
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  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
WLD_2002_GII_v01_M
Title
Global Income Inequality 1988-2002
Subtitle
WYD
Country/Economy
Name Country code
Aruba ABW
Afghanistan AFG
Angola AGO
Albania ALB
Andorra AND
Netherlands Antilles ANT
United Arab Emirates ARE
Argentina ARG
Armenia ARM
American Samoa ASM
Antigua and Barbuda ATG
Australia AUS
Austria AUT
Azerbaijan AZE
Burundi BDI
Belgium BEL
Benin BEN
Burkina Faso BFA
Bulgaria BGR
Bahrain BHR
Bahamas, The BHS
Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH
Bolivia BOL
Brazil BRA
Barbados BRB
Bhutan BTN
Botswana BWA
Central African Republic CAF
Canada CAN
Switzerland CHE
Chile CHL
China CHN
Cameroon CMR
Congo, Dem. Rep. COD
Colombia COL
Comoros COM
Cabo Verde CPV
Costa Rica CRI
Cuba CUB
Cayman Islands CYM
Cyprus CYP
Czech Republic CZE
Germany DEU
Djibouti DJI
Dominica DMA
Denmark DNK
Dominican Republic DOM
Algeria DZA
Ecuador ECU
Egypt, Arab Rep. EGY
Spain ESP
Estonia EST
Ethiopia ETH
Finland FIN
Fiji FJI
France FRA
Gabon GAB
United Kingdom GBR
Georgia GEO
Ghana GHA
Guinea GIN
Guadeloupe GLP
Gambia, The GMB
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Equatorial Guinea GNQ
Greece GRC
Grenada GRD
Greenland GRL
Guatemala GTM
French Guiana GUF
Guam GUM
Guyana GUY
Hong Kong SAR, China HKG
Honduras HND
Croatia HRV
Haiti HTI
Hungary HUN
Indonesia IDN
Isle of Man IMN
India IND
Ireland IRL
Iran, Islamic Rep. IRN
Iraq IRQ
Iceland ISL
Israel ISR
Italy ITA
Jamaica JAM
Japan JPN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kenya KEN
Cambodia KHM
Kiribati KIR
St. Kitts and Nevis KNA
Korea, Rep. KOR
Kuwait KWT
Lao PDR LAO
Lebanon LBN
Liberia LBR
Libya LBY
St. Lucia LCA
Liechtenstein LIE
Sri Lanka LKA
Lesotho LSO
Lithuania LTU
Luxembourg LUX
Latvia LVA
Macao SAR, China MAC
Morocco MAR
Monaco MCO
Moldova MDA
Madagascar MDG
Maldives MDV
Mexico MEX
Marshall Islands MHL
Mali MLI
Malta MLT
Myanmar MMR
Mongolia MNG
Mozambique MOZ
Mauritania MRT
Martinique MTQ
Mauritius MUS
Malawi MWI
Malaysia MYS
Mayotte MYT
Namibia NAM
New Caledonia NCL
Niger NER
Nigeria NGA
Nicaragua NIC
Netherlands NLD
Norway NOR
Nepal NPL
New Zealand NZL
Oman OMN
Pakistan PAK
Panama PAN
Peru PER
Philippines PHL
Palau PLW
Papua New Guinea PNG
Poland POL
Puerto Rico PRI
Korea, Dem. Rep. PRK
Portugal PRT
Paraguay PRY
French Polynesia PYF
Qatar QAT
Romania ROU
Russian Federation RUS
Rwanda RWA
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sudan SDN
Senegal SEN
Singapore SGP
Solomon Islands SLB
Sierra Leone SLE
El Salvador SLV
Somalia SOM
Suriname SUR
Slovak Republic SVK
Slovenia SVN
Sweden SWE
Eswatini SWZ
Seychelles SYC
Chad TCD
Togo TGO
Thailand THA
Tajikistan TJK
Turkmenistan TKM
Timor-Leste TLS
Tonga TON
Trinidad and Tobago TTO
Tunisia TUN
Turkiye TUR
Taiwan, China TWN
Tanzania TZA
Uganda UGA
Ukraine UKR
Uruguay URY
United States USA
Uzbekistan UZB
Venezuela, RB VEN
Vietnam VNM
Vanuatu VUT
West Bank and Gaza WBG
Samoa WSM
South Africa ZAF
Zambia ZMB
Zimbabwe ZWE
Yugoslavia Fed. Rep. YUG
Czechoslovakia CSK
Serbia and Montenegro SCG
Study type
Macroeconomics - Indicators
Abstract
Is global inequality (inequality among world citizens) stable, decreasing or increasing? How high it is? Is it mostly due to inequalities within nations or between nations? Is there a global middle class? See the working papers above: "True world income distribution 1988 and 1993: first calculations based on household surveys alone" no. 2244, and "Decomposing global income distribution: Does the world have a middle class?" no. 2562

Household survey data (1988-2002) used in these papers, and subsequent book "Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality", Princeton University Press, 2005. The data are for three benchmark years: 1988, 1993 and 1998
Kind of Data
Aggregate data [agg]

Version

Version Description
Vesrion July 2012 http://go.worldbank.org/IVEJIU0FJ0
Version Date
2012-03

Scope

Notes
The dataset includes indicators related to:
- Population
- Income

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Branko L. Milanovic The World Bank

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
1988 2002
Data Collection Mode
Other [oth]

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Development Research Group World Bank research@worldbank.org Link
Citation requirements
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download

Example:

Branko L. Milanovic. Global Income Inequality (GII) 1988-2002. Ref. WLD_2002_GII_v01_M.Dataset downloaded from [web address] on [date].

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_WLD_2002_GII_v02_M
Date of Metadata Production
2011-02-07
DDI Document version
DDI Document - Version 02 - (04/21/21)
This version is identical to DDI_WLD_2002_GII_v01_M but country field has been updated to capture all the countries covered by survey.

Version 01 (February 2011)
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