Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% ...

The Covid–19 pandemic is exacerbating inequalities across the globe, potentially undermining economic and political stability. Even prior to the pandemic, inequalities were high and rising in many ...

This graph tells you that the richest 1 percent has captured more than half of income growth during periods of economic expansion in the 21st century. If more people knew that, would they support ...

Why have many countries had difficulties reducing inequalities and what must be done to change this? How is gender inequality impacting the SDGs? As UN DESA gathered global experts at a recent meeting ...

The authors set out to assess whether countries are on track to achieve the SDGs for education by 2030. They assembled a database of 3,180 nationally representative censuses and surveys from 195 ...

Since their emergence, cities acted as major engines of economic and social development. The rising impact of urban life is testified by the 2018 Revision of UN’s World Urbanization Prospect, showing ...

Global inequalities are in bad shape and mostly do not appear to be getting better. Disparities today are about the same as they were in the early 20th century, and the pandemic continues to make ...

Early signs are that the COVID-19 virus poses a greater direct health risk to men, and particularly older men. But the pandemic is exposing and exploiting inequalities of all kinds, including gender ...