We published a new topic page on economic inequality

Over the past twenty years, public attention to economic inequality has significantly increased.

This growing interest has been matched by improvements in available data, which now covers more countries and longer time periods.

Previously, data on inequality was limited to individual nations, but today, researchers can analyze it from a global perspective.

This shift is possible thanks to new international databases that make data more comparable and accessible.

For example, the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), the Luxembourg Income Study, and the World Inequality Database now provide comprehensive datasets.

Despite these advances, the variety of sources and measurement methods can be overwhelming, as different approaches to measuring inequality have their own strengths and weaknesses.

This complexity makes it challenging to understand how these methods relate to each other or where to begin analyzing the data.