One reason why South Africa is difficult to govern (South Africa fact of the day)

South Africa holds the grim distinction of being the most unequal country on Earth. South Africa leads the global ranking with a Gini index of 0.63. Statista The richest 10% of South Africans hold 71% of the wealth, while the poorest 60% hold just 7%. World Population Review This extreme inequality is largely rooted in history — economists attribute it to historical land ownership laws, the lingering socio-economic impacts of apartheid, and an economy heavily reliant on undiversified natural resource extraction. Data Pandas

The World (Global Gini) is trickier to pin down, because it measures inequality across all of humanity rather than within a single country. Different scholars estimate the global Gini index to range between 0.61 and 0.68. Wikipedia Interestingly, when measured this way — treating every person on Earth as part of one big “country” — global inequality ends up being comparable to South Africa’s, because the gap between the world’s richest and poorest nations is enormous.

That is from Claude.