Daily Maverick | 26.05.2026 06:28
South Africa has the highest income inequality of any country with comparable data. The Gini coefficient — a measure of how evenly income or wealth is distributed within a nation, on a scale from 0 (perfect equality) to 1 (perfect inequality) — is 0.63 for South Africa, compared to 0.25 to 0.35 for European countries, 0.41 for the US, and 0.58 for sub-Saharan Africa overall.
