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Nov 7, 2025 · 500 economists and inequality experts from seventy countries support call for new ‘IPCC for inequality’ November 14, 2025 | WID.world
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Nov 7, 2025 · 500 economists and inequality experts from seventy countries support call for new ‘IPCC for inequality’ November 14, 2025 | WID.world
The World Inequality Database (WID) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries...
WID – World Inequality Database Stata package available to download directly WID.world data Indicators Country & Regions
To understand how the World Inequality Lab homogenizes and constructs the WID, we provide the WID.world computer codes used to create the entire database from both the researcher’s data and official sources. They are ...
The WID provides complete balance sheets (financial and non-financial) for the national economy as a whole and the different sectors of the economy. A detailed description of the concepts is available in the DINA guid...
Dec 7, 2021 · Wealth tax simulator: interface where users will be able to design a wealth tax by adjusting thresholds and tax rates, and eventually to measure the revenue generated and the impact on wealth inequalitie...
Generally speaking, the World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both betwe...
The data and analysis presented here are based on the work of more than 100 researchers over four years, located on all continents, contributing to the World Inequality Database (WID.world), maintained by the World In...
Nov 19, 2024 · The WID now includes data up to 2023. The key novelty this year is the addition of new data on foreign income, foreign wealth, trade balance, public revenue, and public spending – essential for understa...
How does our wealth and income comparator work? The wealth and income comparator on WID.world allows people to locate themselves in the wealth and income distribution of their country and of the world.