Poorest Tenth, 2004

Caption

Poorest Tenth

Summary

This “Worldmapper” map shows differences in the total earnings of the poorest tenth of the population in different countries. Territory size shows the earnings of the poorest tenth of the population living in a country as a proportion of the earnings of the poorest tenth living in all countries. The country sizes represent total earnings by the poorest tenth, not earnings per poor person, so countries like India with large populations but small earnings per poor person are shown as larger than normal on the map. Luxembourg, Norway, and Japan are the countries with the highest earnings by the poorest tenth per poor person. The larger the territory appears relative to its population, the better off its poor are in a global context. This map can be better understood when compared to the world map below, which shows country size in proportion to population.

World Population Map, 2002 [http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=2]

There are great disparities across countries in the earnings of the poorest tenth–the poorest tenth in Niger or Sierra Leone earn less than 1% of the earnings of the poorest tenth in Japan and most Western European countries.

The map is accompanied by two tables that show ranked lists of the ten countries with the highest and lowest earnings of the poorest tenth per poor person. There is also a bar graph that shows the average annual earnings per poor person in US$ PPP by region.

Copyright status

© Copyright 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan)

Used on QED by permission.

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Source

Worldmapper[1]