South Korea places great importance on education, innovation and investment into research and development. The country has a highly skilled workforce earning a high median household income. Services provide the majority of the country’s GDP at58%, with industry at31.7%and agriculture at1.6%. 14....
Median household income (PPP) 131 Official exchange rate per capita 197 PPP 162 PPP per capita 161 Per capita > PPP 231 Purchasing power parity per capita 201 Real growth rate 223 SUBCATEGORIES Interesting observations about Economy > GDP United States ranked first for GDP amongst Chris...
In Singapore, capital gains and dividend income are tax-free. Highest Median Wealth per Person, by Country If we are to look at a more representative measure of wealth distribution, through median wealth, it tells a different story. Median wealth is the value that divides a population’s ...
Median tenure of sellers in home in the U.S. 1985-2016 Homeownership rate of non-family households in the U.S. 2018, by type Homeownership rate in the U.S. 2001-2017 by income Length of time homeowners planned to live in current home in the U.S. 2016, by age Most popular expensive...
The youngest territory outside of Africa is Palestine, with an median age of 19.5 in Gaza and 21.9 in the West Bank. This is followed by Afghanistan at 20 years, Timor-Leste at 20.6 years and Papua New Guinea at 21.7 years. While the economic and development outlook in many African ...
Companion articles report results for child wasting (weight-for-length z-score < 2 standard deviations below the reference median)28 and household, maternal and child-level risk factors associated with linear growth faltering29. These data were aggregated by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...
The median voter hypothesis is important to endogenous growth theories because it provides the political mechanisms through which voters in more unequal countries re-distribute a greater proportion of income and thus (it is argued), by blunting incentives, reduce the country's growth rate. But he ...
We provide a comprehensive map of median income, inequality (Gini coefficient and Lorenz curve) and poverty (poverty rates), at country and regional levels, based on the equivalized household income in all the countries in which EU-SILC is conducted. We focus on personal income distribution ...
In Fig. 3, between country inequality and within-country inequality are shown relative to median household income. Between-country inequality is shown by the trend-line and the correlation measure between the inequality indices and median national household income. Results are negatively sloped in each...
Household food insecurity is a serious public health concern in rich countries with developed economies closely associated with inequality. The prevalence of household food insecurity is relatively high in some developed countries, ranging from 8 to 20% of the population. Human rights approaches have ...