It appears that South Africa is having a bit of trouble with its Gini in the statistical bottle. The country's Gini coefficient — a commonly used measure of inequality — is deemed among the highest in ...

Fifty years ago, Corrado Gini, inventor of the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, died. How does it work, asks Chris Stokel-Walker. When Italian statistician - and former fascist - ...

BEIJING - Urban and rural income surveys will be standardized amid plans to publish an internationally accepted measure of how wealth is distributed, a leading statistician said. "The nationwide ...

China has published the calculation methods of the Gini coefficient reflecting social wealth gap, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Friday. A new survey system was set up at the end ...

China's income gap has narrowed since peaking in 2008 but still lingers above the internationally recognized warning level, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Friday. For the ...

Fifty years ago, Corrado Gini, inventor of the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, died. How does it work, asks Chris Stokel-Walker. When Italian statistician - and former fascist - ...