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