The problem is this is an easy thing to lie about, so their official numbers are certainly complete fabrications. And they still weren’t bold enough to fabricate something that put them above the US.
Well considering we had a huge head start, I really don’t value the comparison that much anyway.
Let’s look at it a different way, is their middle class growing while ours is contracting? Let’s consider the trend and not the specific point in time.
They official numbers are worse than the US:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gini-coefficient-by-country
The problem is this is an easy thing to lie about, so their official numbers are certainly complete fabrications. And they still weren’t bold enough to fabricate something that put them above the US.
Well considering we had a huge head start, I really don’t value the comparison that much anyway.
Let’s look at it a different way, is their middle class growing while ours is contracting? Let’s consider the trend and not the specific point in time.