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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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