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Countries with the Greatest Wealth Disparities Between Rich and Poor
Name the countries with the greatest wealth disparities between rich and poor.
The source uses something called Gini coefficients. If you want to check out what the formula is check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient (It's pretty boring).
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Last updated: March 26, 2013
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| First submitted | March 5, 2013 |
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_distribution_of_wealth
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Bosna
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Level 65
Mar 5, 2013
Paraguay and Panama are certainly not in Africa.
Ozchris
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Level 33
Mar 5, 2013
Thanks. My bad. Fixed.
coolguy6
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Level 82
Mar 6, 2013
Guatemala isn't in South America
Ozchris
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Level 33
Mar 7, 2013
I'd always thought that Central America was a sub-continent technically part of South America. Turns out it's usually not seen that way. So changed.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Mar 17, 2013
continents are arbitrarily distinguished from one another but... if you're going to split the Americas in two then Central America is definitely part of North America. Sometimes North American maps only include the US, Canada, and Mexico; sometimes it includes everything down to Panama; but South American maps never include Central America.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Mar 17, 2013
Interesting quiz. I've seen all the figures before and even without the clues would have known almost all the answers were in Africa and Central/South America. I thought I'd read before that the US had the greatest disparity of any "developed" nation.. so I'm surprised to see Denmark and Switzerland doing so well in the rankings. Finally... Congo = CAR? I think this is the first quiz I've taken that accepted that.
Ozchris
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Level 33
Mar 22, 2013
Thanks Kalba. I was really surprised to see Switzerland on the list... and staggered to see Denmark there. But there you go. As to Congo... well you typed in CAR so... Trying to be helpful.
CH5443
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Level 72
Mar 26, 2013
When you type in "Congo", Central African Republic comes up. These are two very different Countries!
Ozchris
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Level 33
Mar 26, 2013
Thanks CH... you're absolutely correct. I'll fix. Interestingly enough both the Congos rank WAY down the Gini list.
OJOdin
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Level 20
Aug 2, 2013
You gotta recheck your numbers cause they are certainly wrong. Denmark on this list? I lol'd! Denmark has the lowest gini coefficient in the world.
Ozchris
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Level 33
Aug 3, 2013
I was really surprised too OJ. But I'm afraid you're gonna have to take it up with Wikipedia. That's what they're saying.
OJOdin
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Level 20
Aug 3, 2013
I realized afterwards that we were talking about wealth inequality which is something very, very different from income inequality. This article explains it very well, using Sweden as an example (low income gini, high wealth gini). The numbers on Wikipedia are more than a decade old and not a lot of the countries from this list would make it on a new list using new numbers. Finding a reliable source for such numbers seems very difficuilt though, so I wouldn't expect you to be succesful trying to do so, since I wasn't.
Ozchris
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Level 33
Aug 6, 2013
Good on you OJ! Most people just want to complain... but you followed this one up really well. Yeah, I came across the same problem. But I wanted to do this quiz... and you work with what you've got, right? :)
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jul 3, 2018
I'm sure if you look hard enough you could probably find some (inaccurate) source that listed the USA as #1. I know you want to.
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