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GENERAL INEQUALITY RESOURCES
World Inequality Database - The gold standard for historical and contemporary data on income and wealth inequality.
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) - Interactive dashboards for poverty rates, Gini coefficients, income distribution, and urban-rural splits.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Data Center - Source of the Human Development Index, Inequality-adjusted HDI, and Gender Inequality Index.
OECD, Income Distribution and Poverty Database - Highly curated data for high- and middle-income countries.
Inequality.org - A strong public-facing resource that translates complex data on wealth and income gaps into clear stories, explainers, and visuals.
International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics - One of the world’s leading research centres on structural inequality, with publications, events, and conceptual framing.
Inequality Media - Robert Reich’s platform for short, high-impact videos and digital content on how economic and social inequality are built into politics and institutions.
Oxfam - Reports, data, tools, and films related to inequality and poverty, often with strong advocacy framing and global comparisons.
IMF, Fiscal Monitor: Tackling Inequality Series - Focused on fiscal policy, taxation, and redistribution.
Urban, Environmental, and Spatial Inequality
UN-Habitat, Urban Inequality Index (UII) - Measures inequality in access to housing, transport, and services across cities.
Global Data Lab, Subnational Human Development Database - Lets you map HDI and related development indicators within countries, often down to province or district level.
IPUMS International - Harmonized census microdata from around the world, strong for housing, migration, education, occupation, and household structure.
Our World in Data, Inequality / Poverty / Wealth - Clear visualizations, regularly updated, and very good for storytelling and presentations. Pulls together material from WID, the World Bank, and others.
UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Inequality and Environment - A useful source on ecological inequality, climate vulnerability, and environmental justice.
Africa-Focused and Regional Resources
African Development Bank, Africa Inequality Data - Contains Gini coefficients, Palma ratios, and other sectoral inequality metrics for African countries.
DataFirst, University of Cape Town - A major microdata repository for South African and African household, labour, and census data.
UNU-WIDER, World Income Inequality Database (WIID) - A major alternative to WID, with broad historical coverage of Gini indices and income shares.
African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) - An important African research centre producing inequality research, dashboards, and country reports.
Analytical and Visualization Tools
World Drone Map - africanDRONE's worldwide map of national drone regulations.
Gapminder Tools - Interactive scatterplots and time-series tools for visualizing life expectancy, income, and inequality over time.
Our World in Data Grapher API - Useful for building custom inequality visualizations using structured, reusable data feeds.
Mapbox + OpenStreetMap + HDX (Humanitarian Data Exchange) - Spatial datasets for mapping inequality, urban density, infrastructure access, and humanitarian conditions.
WorldPop + Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) - Geo-coded population and health inequality data that are especially useful for high-resolution mapping and subnational analysis.
Research Portals and Policy Trackers
ILOSTAT, International Labour Organization - Strong for labour market inequality, gender wage gaps, informal employment, and labour-force structure.
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