The objective of the World Inequality Report produced by the World Inequality Lab is to contribute to a more informed global democratic debate on economic inequality by bringing the latest and most complete data to the international table of public discussion. To overcome limitations on data collection in the latest report (2018), the authors rely on what they call a ‘ground-breaking’ methodology. This combines, in a systematic and transparent manner, all data sources at their disposal: national income and wealth accounts including, whenever possible, offshore wealth estimates; household income and wealth surveys; fiscal data coming from taxes on income inheritance; and wealth rankings, when they exist.
The latest report focuses on figures for the year 2016 and it relies on the collective efforts of more than a hundred researchers, covering all continents, who contribute to the WID database. All the data are available online, allowing anyone to perform their own analysis and make up their own mind about global inequality.
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