>>> China's gini coefficient is worse than India and Brazil's worse
>>> than China.
>
>> Brazil's, at around .6, is among the worst in the world and
>> stubbornly so.
>>
>> But is China's worse than India? Don't know what the most recent
>> figures are
>
> Here's what the World Bank has for some interesting countries (all
> figs from between 1998 and 2001): <snip>
>
> China 0.447 Germany 0.283 India 0.343
The absurdly low World Bank Gini co-efficients for India (and Indonesia and Bangladesh and Pakistan) have been noted and criticized - the best demolition is from the excellent University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) of Jamie Galbraith. <http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/>
To get beyond the soundbite level, i suggest this paper by Galbraith and Kum. <http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/web/workingpaper/UTIP22-RV5.pdf> Note in particular Appendix A & the comparison of the World Bank data to their results as to household income, with these resulting Gini's for India: India - World Bank- 0.326
Household income- 0.484
john mage