Income Disparity In Zambia

Changes in selected poverty indicators measures in zambia 1996 1998 poverty indicators measures 1996 1998 income poverty overall poverty percent national poverty line 69 2 72 9 extreme poverty percent national poverty line 53 2 57 9.

Income disparity in zambia. 81001 zm zambia poverty assessment stagnant poverty and inequality in a natural resource based economy december 2012 poverty reduction and economic management. The gini coefficient as a measure of income inequality increased from 0 60 in 2006 to 0 65 in 2010. This resulted from worsening income inequality in rural areas which rose from 0 54 in 2006 to 0 60 in 2010. With high and rising income inequality in zambia we propose two operational definitions of the middle class by exploring the middle class from a median perspective and from a relative affluence perspective.

Felix mwenge the 2015 living conditions monitoring survey report has revealed that the gap between the rich and the poor in zambia is widening. This project sought to understand the precise relationship between growth inequality and poverty in the country growth has been the main contributor to a decline in headcount poverty rates in zambia but inequality has slowed. Zambia the source for global inequality data. Defining the middle class on the basis of the actual middle versus relative affluence provides vastly different pictures.

By some measures the situation is actually getting worse. Zambia s ihdi for 2018 relative to selected countries and groups ihdi value overall loss human inequality coefficient inequality in life expectancy at birth inequality in education inequality in income zambia 0 394 33 4 32 3 26 5 21 7 48 6. Mr mwaipopo said additionally in 2011 zambia returned to a lower middle income status and between 2004 and 2014 impressive economic growth was recorded which averaged 7 6 percent while sub. In terms of distribution of income the survey results revealed that the bottom 80 percent of the population in terms of earnings were reported to have acquired only 31 3 percent of the total income while the top 20 percent of the population claimed 68 67 percent of the total income.

Open access high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an international academic consortium. Zambia has experienced sustained economic growth in its recent history but has had mixed experience with reducing poverty and inequality. Human inequality coefficient for zambia is equal to 32 3 percent see table c. Zambiaâ s gini coefficient now.