This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. From India to Bolivia, it was always the women who knew exactly how much water their family needed. When photographer ...

But even though in the eyes of the law women and men are equal, there are still some glaring gender inequality examples that show equality ... to be in the tough world of politics, but the more ...

My reading of the evidence suggests that none of the eight alternative measures clearly shows that world income distribution has become more equal over the past twenty years. Seven of the eight show ...

As suffering and poverty have risen, some data show an increase in another extreme ... That approach is the same as measuring inequality in an imaginary distribution of all individuals in the world, ...

The shock waves of the COVID-19 pandemic have reverberated throughout the world. But the latest data ... had there been no pandemic. The results show that although people at all income levels ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity ... contributing to concerns about rising inequality within countries. This chapter draws on official data and projections to show that within countries, ...

In geography it is important to be able to read and understand data that is presented in a range of different ways. We often use graphs to present data in a clear and accessible way. There are ...

In addition, income from private property is a newly emerging and potentially long-term source of inequality in the world's most populous nation ... the fact that services have declined. Rather, they ...