wojtek
At 11:19 AM 8/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Michael McIntyre wrote:
>
>>So how can you help? Well, I'm looking for a little technical
>>support here. To make the second part work, it would be good to
>>have data on the world distribution of income fine-grained enough to
>>allow me to interpoate per capita incomes at specified percentile
>>levels (17, 31, 44, 56, 67, 75, 83, 89, 94, and 97 to be exact). If
>>that data is out there, I haven't seen it. I'm willing to go with
>>relatively unrefined data (non-PPP adjusted, based on median
>>national incomes, etc.) as long as I can use it to make a dirty
>>ball-park interpolation.
>
>World Bank economist Branko Milanovic has a paper on world income
>distribution
><http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/research/workpapers.nsf/(allworkingpapers)/8
DEA74BC10A97DCF8525683300663553?OpenDocument>
>that blends national household surveys into what he claims is the
>first true attempt at measuring the beast. Here's a percentile table
>(1993 figures, using PPP US$):
>
>
> percentile income
> 5 238
> 10 318
> 15 373
> 20 432
> 25 496
> 30 586
> 35 658
> 40 742
> 45 883
> 50 1,044
> 55 1,165
> 60 1,505
> 65 1,857
> 70 2,327
> 75 3,006
> 80 4,508
> 85 6,563
> 90 9,110
> 95 13,241
> 99 24,447
>
>So, world median income is about US$1,044. Someone with a
>poverty-level income in the U.S. is at the 95th percentile of world
>income.
>
>Doug
>