Inequality falls 9% in the country in ten years, says IBGE
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The inequality in the country fell in all regions, show data from the National Household Sampling (PNAD), the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The Gini index of the monthly income of Brazilian households rose from 0.521 in 2007 to 0.515 in 2008 - in 1998 when the series began, the number was 0.567.
The Gini index ranges from 0 to 1 and measures the distribution of income in the population: the more the closer to 0, greater equality, the closer to 1, the greater the disparity between what people earn. The evolution between 1998 and 2008 shows, therefore, a fall of 9.17%.
Inequality fell in all regions between 2007 and 2008. The greatest inequality is in the Midwest, where the Gini coefficient was 0.549 in 2008, up from 0.552 in 2007. The region is more equal in the south, with 0.477 in 2008, down from 0.498 in 2007.
The biggest drop was recorded in the northern region of 0.498 in 2007 to 0.478 last year. In the Northeast, the Gini coefficient rose from 0.528 to 0.525 a year to another. In the Southeast the drop was 0.498 in 2007 to 0.492 in 2008.
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Despite the reduction, however, some data show the extent of inequality that still exists in the country. Last year, according to the PNAD, 52% of households had monthly income per person below the poverty level.
Are 5.9 million families have no income or earn up to a quarter of minimum wage, which today amounts to little more than R$ 116.
According to the IBGE, the 10% of workers with low incomes gained 1.2% of total income in 2008, that number was 1.1% in 2007. While the 10% with higher incomes concentrated 42.7% of total income, a drop from 43.3% in 2007.
IBGE points out that the income rose for all income groups of the population, but rose more in the lower bands. For example, among the 10% who have higher incomes, they rose 0.3%, among the 10% who have low incomes, the increase was 4.3%.
Source: G1
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