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Median would definitely give a more realistic picture considering how bad wealth inequality is in China.
It’s really tragic the progress they’re making. No wonder they hate their government so much.
The Gini coefficient is the one that measures income inequality. China's is roughly where the US is at in that measure which is to say extremely unequal at around 47:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240211041900/https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/10/02/just-how-dickensian-is-china