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Sep 23, 2026
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Disparity in household financial assets is widening against the backdrop of rising stock prices according to the Internal Affairs Ministry.
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The survey results released August 28th by the ministry show the Gini coefficient, an indicator of inequality for financial asset holdings, such as bank deposits and savings, stock holdings and investment trust assets was zero point six seven eight in 2024, higher and worse than the zero point six six four in the previous survey of 2019.
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The ministry calculated the Gini coefficient in a section titled The Distribution of Household Income and Wealth in the results of its national survey of family income, consumption, and wealth.
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The closer to one the Gini coefficient, the larger the disparity.
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It appears likely that the rising share prices have further enriched wealthy individuals who tend to have more financial assets, thereby broadening the inequality.
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The latest installment of the survey, which is taken every five years, covered about ninety thousand households across Japan.
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Disparity was found to have widened from 2019 in all age brackets.
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The inequality tended to be more pronounced in younger people.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
With the expansion of the middle class, income inequalities, which have been a striking characteristic of the rising developing states, may begin to lessen in the developing world.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
Even if the Gini coefficients, which are used to measure inequalities, decline in many developing countries, they are still unlikely to approach the level of many current European countries like Germany and Finland, where inequality is relatively low.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
Quote, "All the analyses we reviewed suggest that the most rapid growth of the middle class will occur in Asia, with India somewhat ahead of China." End quote.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
That said, a perception of great inequality will remain, particularly between urban and rural dwellers.
speaker_0HOST
But I've also heard about living life behind gated security because there's high rates of violence.
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And if you look up the most unequal country, South Africa comes up first because it has the highest score on the Gini Index, which is a measure of income inequality.
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So I just wanted to ask, what did growing up in South Africa teach you about inequality and how you view it, and maybe how that changed when you moved away from South Africa?
Bianca AltiniGUEST
Yeah, I mean, to start off with South Africa is a beautiful place.
Kate PickettGUEST
When people have looked to see whether there are thresholds of tipping points for things like impact on population health, they have tended to come to the conclusion that there is a threshold for that.
Kate PickettGUEST
And it's above what we would call a Gini coefficient, which is the measure that's most commonly used for looking at the distribution of incomes in society above three.
Kate PickettGUEST
There aren't many countries left in the world that have Gini coefficients below three.
Kate PickettGUEST
It's really just the Scandinavian countries and a couple of countries in Europe.
Kate PickettGUEST
in Eastern Europe.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
Recording by Patrick McCaffey, Merritt Island.
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Alternative World Three: Gini Out of the Bottle.
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Footnote.
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The Gini in this scenario title refers to the Gini coefficient, which is a recognized statistical measurement of inequality of income.
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End footnote.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
In Gini Out of the Bottle, inequalities within countries and between rich and poor countries dominate.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
The world becomes wealthier as global GDP grows, but less happy as the differences between the haves and have-nots become starker and increasingly immutable.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
The world is increasingly defined by two self-reinforcing cycles, one virtuous leading to greater prosperity, the other vicious leading to poverty and instability.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
With the expansion of the middle class, income inequalities, which have been a striking characteristic of the rising developing states, may begin to lessen in the developing world.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
Even if the Gini coefficients, which are used to measure inequalities, decline in many developing countries, they are still unlikely to approach the level of many current European countries like Germany and Finland, where inequality is relatively low.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
Quote, all the analyses we reviewed suggest that the most rapid growth of the middle class will occur in Asia, with India somewhat ahead of China, end quote.
Patrick McAfeeNARRATOR
That said, a perception of great inequality will remain, particularly between urban and rural dwellers, motivating a growing number of rural dwellers to migrate to the cities to seek economic opportunities.
Deniz SelmanPANELIST
Lower than people think.
Deniz SelmanPANELIST
[lips smack] Yeah, I mean, the, back to this Gini index thing.
Deniz SelmanPANELIST
The higher ranked you are on this, the- Okay ...
Deniz SelmanPANELIST
the, the more inequality there is, right? And so the Eagles were sixth last year, ninth the year before, fourth the year before that because A.J.
Solitaire TownsendHOST
So I was just doing a little bit of reminder of myself in the background.
Solitaire TownsendHOST
And you've got the Gini, I'm not sure if that's how you pronounce it, coefficient, this coefficient on wealth inequality.
Solitaire TownsendHOST
And at what point do you get the wealth inequality coefficient being so significant that it can lead to revolutionary tendencies? And I think it's that this coefficient explains like 40% of the likelihood of something tipping over.
Solitaire TownsendHOST
And the Gini coefficient at the moment, particularly in the global north, is very, very high because it's not about relative wealth in terms of actually, you know, here in the UK and in Europe, overwhelmingly, we are less poor than we were in the past.
Solitaire TownsendHOST
But the inequality between both.
Solitaire TownsendHOST
between us and the oligarchs is much, much, much, much higher than it's ever been.
Solitaire TownsendHOST
These brand new technologies where you had mechanisation, creating factories, which was absolutely killing off all of the cottage industries.
Solitaire TownsendHOST
So you had lots and lots and lots of unemployment being driven by technological displacement.
Mirza Yawar BaigHOST
That's the worst number to talk about because it shows, it doesn't indicate anything.
Mirza Yawar BaigHOST
If you, literally somebody said, what if we assess nations not by how their most wealthy live, but by how their poorest live, then what will happen to the index, indices? If you want to, instead of counting how many billionaires are there in India or America or wherever, how many millionaires, if you see how many poor people are there, what will it show? In terms of the absolute poverty, something called a Gini Index, which shows wealth distribution.
Mirza Yawar BaigHOST
In the Gini Index, India, in terms of absolute poverty, is below sub-Saharan Africa.
Mirza Yawar BaigHOST
So does it concern us or not? Because a big number of those of that poor population are Muslims.
Mirza Yawar BaigHOST
We are supposed to be concerned about everybody, not only about Muslims.
Mirza Yawar BaigHOST
That's the worst number to talk about because it shows, it doesn't indicate anything.
Mirza Yawar BaigHOST
If you, literally somebody said, what if we assess nations not by how their most wealthy live, but by how their poorest live, then what will happen to the index, indices? If you want to, instead of counting how many billionaires are there in India or America or wherever or how many millionaires, If you see how many poor people are there, what will it show? In terms of the absolute poverty, something called the Gini Index, which shows wealth distribution.
Mirza Yawar BaigHOST
In the Gini Index, India in terms of absolute poverty is below sub-Saharan Africa.
Mirza Yawar BaigHOST
So, does it concern us or not? Because a big number of those of that poor population are Muslims.
Mirza Yawar BaigHOST
We are supposed to be concerned about everybody, not only about Muslims.
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