SeaJ@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 9 months agoChina has a birth-rate problem. It's also the 2nd-least affordable country in the world to raise a child, says a Beijing think tank.www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down110cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkChina has a birth-rate problem. It's also the 2nd-least affordable country in the world to raise a child, says a Beijing think tank.www.businessinsider.comSeaJ@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 9 months agomessage-square4fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
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minus-squareSeaJ@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down8·9 months agoMedian would definitely give a more realistic picture considering how bad wealth inequality is in China.
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minus-squareSeaJ@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-29 months agoThe Gini coefficient is the one that measures income inequality. China’s is roughly where the US is at in that measure which is to say extremely unequal at around 47: https://web.archive.org/web/20240211041900/https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/10/02/just-how-dickensian-is-china
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Median would definitely give a more realistic picture considering how bad wealth inequality is in China.
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The Gini coefficient is the one that measures income inequality. China’s is roughly where the US is at in that measure which is to say extremely unequal at around 47:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240211041900/https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/10/02/just-how-dickensian-is-china