An
all you need to know
guide to inequality
in the UK today.
Extracts from the book (PDF downloads)
Figures and data
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- The following tables are included in this document:
- Table 1.1.1: Deaths in state detention, England and Wales, 2011–16
- Table 2.2.1: Fortunes of different income groups 1910–2009: correlation coefficients
- Table 2.8.1: Proportion of GDP spent on public services 2015, and projection for 2019
- Table 3.11.2: Annual income of the best-off/worst-off 10% of households (2015)
- Table 4.5.1: Households which were poor, in the middle, or wealthy, 2010 & 1980
- Table 4.6.1: Summary of income inequalities in five countries, 2012.
- Table 4.6.2: The numbers of bankers paid over €1,000,000 in 2012
- Table 4.6.3: Share in top incomes of the 1% and Gini measure of inequality, 15 affluent countries ranked by the take of the 1%
Further readings
- So what can you do?
- Peak Inequality, The New Statesman, July 4th 2018 (PDF download)
- Britain is a Segregated Society – the isolation of the richest from the rest
- Could 2018 be the peak of the crisis in health in the UK or will 2019 be even worse?
- The Demography of Inequality
- Blame education’s ‘macho leader’ cult for shocking gender pay gap
- Brexit: The result of rising inequality, not rising immigration
- Top ‘Remuneration’: Have we reached Peak Inequality?
- Both adult and infant mortality now rise in the UK
- Housing prices in the UK and London fall, homelessness rises, more children than ever sleep in B&Bs
- UK Higher Education: Botched loan privatisations and the highest fees in the world
- On Martin Luther King Day 2018: Child poverty rates still rising in the USA and UK
- When a housing market peaks: lessons from 18th century Amsterdam
- This is what peak inequality looks like (also available as a PDF download)