{"id":369,"date":"2012-02-13T13:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/income-inequality-in-greece\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T13:16:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T18:16:47","slug":"income-inequality-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/income-inequality-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Income Inequality in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2012\/feb\/13\/greece-hopes-quick-bailout-agreement-dashed\">political situation in Greece continues to deteriorate<\/a>, we decided to take a look at the income distribution statistics we have for the country. Take a look at the graph we created based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/facts\/greece\/income-distribution\">World Bank numbers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/image3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/image_thumb3.png\" width=\"579\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The graph shows the income share for each quintile of the population. The top 20% has a 41.49% share of income, while the bottom 20% has a 6.74% share.<\/p>\n<p>Note that all income share numbers are from the year 2000. We have not been able to locate more recent data, although the CIA World Factbook publishes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/greece\/distribution_of_family_income_gini_index.html\">GINI index numbers which are more recent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how the distribution of income in Greece changes once the effect of the current crisis is quantified.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Income Inequality in Greece' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/income-inequality-in-greece\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Income Inequality in Greece' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/income-inequality-in-greece\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Income Inequality in Greece' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/income-inequality-in-greece\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Income Inequality in Greece' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/income-inequality-in-greece\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the political situation in Greece continues to deteriorate, we decided to take a look at the income distribution statistics we have for the country. 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