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Gini Coefficient
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Last updated 2 Jul 2018
What is the Gini Coefficient?
The Gini coefficient is a commonly-used measure of income inequality that condenses the entire income distribution for a country into a single number between 0 and 1: the higher the number, the greater the degree of income inequality.
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