Comments on: Income Distribution, 2003

By: Uwe

Uwe — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:25:22 +0000

Clearly what is not shown here are very large incomes i.e. the ever larger inequality of income distribution. Salaries, for example in many European countries as well as the US have not risen as much for the larger population as compared to the incomes of capital owners. To the right the incomes above 1 Mio. plus are not shown? Why? What does income mean on this site?

By: Ravi Ram

Ravi Ram — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:41:36 +0000

A parallel presentation of the proportion or % of each population at different levels of income over time, rather than the absolute number, would also be useful and would address some of the concerns about misinterpreting (in)equitable distribution between countries.

By: Mandeep Sah

Mandeep Sah — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:12:17 +0000

Well not to mention, the work is great. Thanks.

And same as Surajit’s interest. I curious to know about the software.

By: Surajit Baruah

Surajit Baruah — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:09:25 +0000

The time series data sets are so well presented using these visualization technique. I see some mention of Flash software in case of “Human Development Trend” and “Income Distribution”. I want to know some more about the software used and how these visualization has been developed.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:28:51 +0000

Hey Folks,
I tried to download the PC version of this presentation (Income Distribution, 2003 ), but it looks like you may have the link set up incorrectly. Both links point to the Mac version of the app. FYI.

By: juh

juh — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:41:06 +0000

What about expressing the income with respect to some indices such as the “consumer price index” instead of dollars.

It would be more meaningful.

By: david

david — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:37:11 +0000

agree with Tom about the log scale; it distorts both the distribution and relative populations; eg the population of Indonesia is about 10 times that of Japan but it looks less than twice it on the motion chart.

but the principle of graphing time as time is so sensible – might it be even more informative to map space to space – then map the indicator such as income (or, more appropriately, assets per person) to a colour gradient on a geographical map that varies over simulated time?

By: Emilio

Emilio — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:14:11 +0000

i got very curious about the pattern check barzil & mexico and notice the same pattern.

great data.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:46:13 +0000

Dear Gapminders,

Your work is really important. Thank you.

One point however. In many instances you log the x axis. This can be misleading to many people unfamiliar with transformations. Some may even be left with the feeling that global concerns such as inequality are rapidly dissolving.

Sincerely

By: Arjun Chandra

Arjun Chandra — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:39:21 +0000

I agree with the above comment. Data post 2000 for India would be very useful indeed. The rise in the mid section of the distribution is a little misleading, given the log scale on the x-axis (and the population growing anyway), indicating that not a lot has changed i.e. the relative cooperative levels are still the same – just a few zeros have been added across the population, which obviously does not change anything for the majority which interacts amongst themselves.