Published February 26, 2019 | Version v1
Dataset

World Income Inequality Database , WIID

Creators

Description

The World Income Inequality database is part of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and contains information on income inequality for 189 developed, developing and transition countries.

Additional details

Identifiers

B2SHARE Legacy Record ID
3e7f360abef84a3f95299ead4ee938be
B2SHARE Legacy Record ID
a47b8330c9f3408a8f0d715aeb3d9618

InGRID metadata

Access
Freely accessible without registration
Additional information
Time span starts from 1867 and ends with 2015.
Category
Indicators and statistics
Data providers
UNU-WIDER
Data type
Tabular data, Quantitative data
Domain
Vulnerability, Poverty, Working conditions
Geographic coverage
EU28, Other, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, The Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Israel, Iceland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine
Guidelines for use available
True
InGRID tags
Gini coefficients, income distribution by any quantile share
Link to receive access
https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/wiid-world-income-inequality-database
Periodicity of collecting
Years covered by the data differ per country.
Text documents available
True
Time span
1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Unit of analysis
National level