World Vitals / Income, wealth, and distribution
Compare inequality indicators from high-quality economic datasets.
Inequality pages should make income concept, unit, population coverage, and pre/post-tax treatment explicit.
The primary charts now come from normalized database observations. Snapshot cards remain useful for latest values, but time series and paired relationships get chart types that match the question.
Database charts
These charts use normalized observations from the World Vitals database. Time-series charts show change; scatter plots show paired relationships where the data actually supports comparison.
World Bank
Current-dollar GDP is not inflation-adjusted, but it makes the size of the world economy legible.
Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.
World Bank
GDP per capita makes the economic scale more comparable than total GDP alone.
Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.
World Bank
The ILO-modelled World Bank series shows labour-market stress rather than output scale.
Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.
World Bank WDI
Each dot is one global year where GDP per person overlaps life expectancy.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
World Bank WDI
Per-capita energy use and GDP per person show scale without population hiding the relationship.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
World Bank WDI
This relationship helps avoid treating expenditure as an automatic outcome measure.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
Metric snapshots
Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.
Latest World Bank world GDP value in current US dollars.
World Bank / 2024Live-rate estimate from latest annual world GDP. It is an economic tempo indicator, not real-time accounting.
World Bank / 2024Related topics
Track poverty indicators, poverty lines, and living-standard measures.
Output, spending, and global scaleCompare global GDP, estimated economic output tempo, and government spending signals.
People and demographic changeExplore source-labelled estimates for world population, births, deaths, and child mortality.