To benchmark and monitor economic inequality across countries, the OECD relies on two dedicated statistical databases: the OECD Income Distribution Database (IDD), which offers data on levels and trends in income inequality and poverty, and the OECD Wealth Distribution Database (WDD), which collects...
Realtime Inequality - Who Benefits from Income and Wealth Growth in the United States?
Realtime Inequality provides the first timely statistics on how economic growth is distributed across groups. When new growth numbers come out each quarter, the economists from Berekely show how each income and...
The report is based on data collected from more than 100 WID.world Fellows across five continents, compiled, unified and fed into the World Wealth and Income Database (see www.wid.world/team for more information).
WID.world combines different data sources: national accounts, survey data, fiscal data, and wealth rankings. By doing so, it becomes possible to track more precisely the evolution of all income or wealth levels, from the bottom to the top. The key novelty of WID.world is to use such data in a system...
Oxfam | The analysis finds the 10 wealthiest Californians are now worth a collective $1.045 trillion, up $338.4 billion from March 2025. Oxfam released a new analysis showing how billionaire wealth in California has exploded over the last year, underscoring the need for tax reform to curb inequality...
Press Release | The increase in value-added tax (VAT) currently being discussed by the federal government to cover public financing needs would be disastrous from both a distributional and economic perspective. It would primarily affect people with low and middle incomes, as well as transfer recipie...