The Gini coefficient in China has worsened since reforms began in 1978, ADB noted.
Singapore's "Gini coefficient" the best-known economic measure of income disparity is the second highest in the developed world.
America's Gini coefficient has risen from 0.34 in the 1980s to 0.38 in the mid-2000s.
In most Latin American countries the Gini coefficient in 2010 was lower than in 2000.
Thus, the measure of inequality (Gini coefficient) fell from 0.518 in 2009 to 0.501 in 2011 in Brazil.
Most Americans had never heard of the Gini Coefficient until they read about it in Time magazine this past summer.
Singapore's Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality, rose from 0.444 in 2000 to 0.481 in 2008 higher than in China and America.
Venezuela now has the lowest levels of economic inequality of any Latin American country as measured by the Gini coefficient.
In January, China's National Bureau of Statistics released an official Gini coefficient reading for the first time in ten years.
Taking into account the existence of hidden income, the Gini coefficient of household income distribution is remarkably higher than the 0.47-0.50 calculated by different experts.
For the first time in years, the National Bureau of Statistics last month disclosed China's Gini coefficient a key measure of inequality named after an Italian statistician.
Inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has been rising since 1981 and now compares badly with other developed economies, being roughly on a par with Argentina.
The most common measure of inequality is the Gini coefficient.
To put this phenomenon in more precise terms: The Gini coefficient for income in the U.S., a number that quantifies a society's lack of economic equality, has been creeping up.
China's Gini coefficient measuring income distribution is also generating "widespread controversy and doubts" that it is too low and at odds with public perceptions, The Beijing News and People's Daily report.
While some experts maintain that number still underestimates the nation's inequality, it would make the division of income as unequal as in the U.S., which had a Gini coefficient of 0.48 in 2011, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
One thing they all have in common is that their income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, is well below that of the US. In fact, the Scandinavian and German-speaking countries that consistently score well on a variety of business and quality-of-life surveys have some of the lowest inequality scores among developed nations.
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