Talk:Wealth distribution by country

Copies of United Nations Report

For whatever reason, a copy of the UN-Wider report on the World Distribution of Household Wealth is no longer available on the U.N. website. The reference currently listed in the article only links to a press release about the report, which contains some summary stuff from it, but doesn't contain all of the data. There are copies of the full report at several places, such as:

• http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1068&context=cgirs (exact copy of the one previously available at the United Nations website)
• http://ideas.repec.org/p/uwo/epuwoc/20075.html (contains a short intro by one of the authors)

Analoguni (talk) 07:19, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Why are there so many repeated values?

Why does the table have exactly the same values for Net worth per capita for many countries? That happens with several groups of countries:

1. Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan - all have 2,349
2. Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Korea (North), Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Timor-Leste - all have 6,561
3. Kiribati, Niue - all have 10,084
4. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro
5. Iraq, Palestinian Territory, Turkmenistan
6. Reunion, Libya
7. Bahamas, Guadeloupe, US Virgin Islands, Netherlands Antilles
8. Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Vatican
9. Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Brunei Darussalam
10. Bermuda, Greenland, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon

Given that the adjacent values are usually 100 apart, it seems very unlikely that this is a coincidence. I first thought it might be vandalism in our article, but the official source has the same issue. — Sebastian 05:15, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Inaccurate Statistics That Needs To Be Rectified

1) Under the Asia category, I have noticed that Taiwan is grouped under China. Though a gradual unification with the above stated parties seems imminent, I believe it to be a biased and unprofessional editorial mistake to categorise Taiwan under China. In no way (other than the PRC government's statements to deny the Taiwanese government) is Taiwan under the Chinese rule. I strongly object this mistake to be continued further as a Taiwanese proud of his nation. Please edit.

2) False statistics in the Asia category. For instance, Taiwan's population is approximately 23million which is definitely larger than Hong Kong or Macau's. However, it is stated to be only 0.01% of the total world population while Macau has 0.1 and Hong Kong of 0.11. This is not an ambiguous mistake that can differ with each individual's personal perspective. Please edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Backw0rds (talk • contribs) 16:31, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Also on the statistics note, "Nation: World", "Proportion of world population: 98.52"

Yeah, it might want a footnote... Thennicke (talk) 05:28, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Inaccuracy in grouping?

Pakistan should not be grouped with MENA, it's an Asian country as much as India is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coldwrath1 (talk • contribs) 07:25, 8 November 2014 (UTC)