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- Title
A consistent dataset for the net income distribution for 190 countries and aggregated to 32 geographical regions from 1958 to 2015.
- Authors
Narayan, Kanishka B.; O'Neill, Brian C.; Waldhoff, Stephanie; Tebaldi, Claudia
- Abstract
Data on income distributions within and across countries are becoming increasingly important for informing analysis of income inequality and understanding the distributional consequences of climate change. While datasets on income distribution collected from household surveys are available for multiple countries, these datasets often do not represent the same concept of inequality (or income concept) and therefore make comparisons across countries, over time and across datasets difficult. Here, we present a consistent dataset of income distributions across 190 countries from 1958 to 2015 measured in terms of net income. We complement the observed values in this dataset with values imputed from a summary measure of the income distribution, specifically the Gini coefficient. For the imputation, we use a recently developed nonparametric principal-component-based approach that shows an excellent fit to data on income distributions compared to other approaches. We also present another version of this dataset aggregated from the country level to 32 geographical regions. Our dataset is developed for the purpose of calibrating models such as integrated human–Earth system models with detailed data on income distributions. This dataset will enable more robust analysis of income distribution at multiple scales. The latest version of our data are available on Zenodo: 10.5281/zenodo.7093997 (Narayan et al., 2022b).
- Subjects
INCOME distribution; CORPORATE profits; INCOME inequality; GINI coefficient; HOUSEHOLD surveys; HIGH-income countries; COUNTRIES
- Publication
Earth System Science Data, 2024, Vol 16, Issue 5, p2333
- ISSN
1866-3508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/essd-16-2333-2024