China’s National Bureau of Statistics recently published Gini coefficients for 2003 through 2012 after a decade of silence on this topic. The data shows the coefficient peaked in 2008 at 0.491 ...

Gini coefficient就是“基尼系数”，也叫Gini index（基尼指数），是反映居民收入分配差异（income inequality）程度的重要指标，为比例数值，在0和1之间，越接近0就表明收入分配越趋向平等，反之收入分配越趋向不平等。

Gini coefficient就是“基尼系数”，也叫Gini index（基尼指数），是反映居民收入分配差异（income inequality）程度的重要指标，为比例数值，在0和1之间，越接近0就表明收入分配越趋向平等，反之收入分配越趋向不平等。

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Critics of the Gini coefficient argue that it is an imperfect measure, as it ignores the informal economy and flattens distortions in the income distribution, leading to nonintuitive interpretations.

The Gini coefficient is a single summary statistical measure between 0 and 1 that measures the extent to which the distribution of any data set deviates from a perfectly equal distribution.

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