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GCSE Geography · key term
A measure of how unequally income is distributed. On the 0–1 scale, 0 represents complete equality and 1 represents complete inequality.
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Specification 5.1 · Paper 2
Revise: Measuring Development and Comparing RankingsThe Gini coefficient measures income inequality. On a scale from 0 to 1, 0 represents complete equality and 1 complete inequality. A higher value therefore indicates a more unequal distribution.
Paper 1
A measure of how unequally income is distributed. On the 0–1 scale, 0 represents complete equality and values closer to 1 indicate greater inequality.
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The Gini coefficient measures income inequality. On its 0–1 scale, 0 represents complete equality, and values closer to 1 indicate greater inequality.