Exercise 12C Analysing statistics on income inequality Key Skills
Success criteria
I can understand income inequality in Ireland and other countries.
The Gini index is used to measure income inequality within countries. If a country has a score of 100 on the index, it means that all the income goes to just one person. On the other hand, if a country gets 0 it means that everyone gets an equal share of the country’s income. So, a lower score on the Gini index means a country’s income is shared in a fairer way.
Working in pairs, look at the chart below which shows the Gini index for six countries between 1995 and 2015. Then answer the questions that follow.
1. Which country in this chart has the greatest income equality? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Over the 20 years, which countries have improved their income equality levels? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Which ones have disimproved?
4. How does Ireland’s income equality compare to that of the other countries’? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________