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[edit] Light background would improve readability

Thanks for this nice picture of temporal development of the gini index of selected countries. However, the dark background makes it difficult to see. Could you change it to a light background? −Woodstone 12:02, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your work, but I find so many lines superimposed rather confusing. I find the lines for China and Norway particularly difficult to disentangle.

I am particularly interested in comparing changes in the Gini index for laissez faire economies compared with those which have followed a more dirigiste or welfare-state approach.

 --Publunch 22:52, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

I back the comment on the background. A white background would better, especially if one is trying to print this image. --koenige 20:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vanishing Middle Class

I am concerned about a separation of low v high income groups with few folks in the center - the vanishing middle class. It seems gini calculates the area between a straight line and the Lorenz curve but not the distribution of that area.

Perhaps a calculation of dx*dh multiplied by the square of its distance to the origin k^2, all divided by the total area, would calculate the moment of inertia of the area under the Lorenz curve, which might be informative. Or the area of the left half (median-) could be compared to the area of the right half (median+). hmmm. How do we mathematically note the vanishing middle class? /s/ tom@tdgaffney.com

[edit] Japan data in the recent years

Intersting data! Thanks! I'm surprised of the Japan curve, and it does not match with the color graph - but maybe just because we miss the recent years. It would be nice to have the raw (numerical) data somewhere in Wikipedia so that we just need to add the newest data and anyone could generate updated curves. Maybe a CSV list would be OK but I don't know if it is at all possible :-) Oh, and yes a light background would be better, particularly for printing.

[edit] Germany

An interesting graph. How were the figures for Germany compiled for the years pre-unification? Leithp 15:56, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

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