Editing Income distribution (section)

=== United Kingdom ===
Inequality in the UK has been very high in the past, and did not change much until the onset of industrialization. Incomes used to be remarkably concentrated pre-[[Industrial Revolution|industrial evolution]]: up to 40% of total income went into the pockets of the richest 5%.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Roser|first1=Max|last2=Ortiz-Ospina|first2=Esteban|date=5 December 2013|title=Income Inequality|url=https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality|journal=Our World in Data}}</ref> In the more recent years income distribution is still an issue. The UK experienced a large increase in inequality during the 1980s—the incomes of the highest deciles increase while everyone else was stagnant. Uneven growth in the years leading up to 1991 meant further increases in inequality. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, more even growth across the distribution meant little changes in inequality, with rising incomes for everybody. In sight of [[Brexit]], there is more predicted income distribution discrepancies between wages.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Ortiz-Ospina |first2=Esteban |title=Income Inequality |url=https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality |journal=Our World in Data |access-date=24 October 2019 |date=5 December 2013}} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Material was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License].
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2019: The United Kingdom was doing a lot to reduce one of the widest gaps between rich and poor citizens, what has led to getting on the 13th place in the ranking of income inequality in the world.<ref name=":0" />

* Post-tax '''Gini''' coefficient: 0.35.
* '''Unemployment''' rate: 4.3%.
* '''GDP''' per capita: $39 425.
* '''Poverty''' rate: 11.1%.<ref name=":0" />