Table 2:
Characteristics of Countries Grouped by OECD Membership and by Region
| Country Group | % Share of World … |
Mean Income Gini | Mean Poverty Rate |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | COVID-19 Deaths | COVID-19 Cases | Pov | Pov5.5 | SocPov | ||
| OECD | 18.5 | 59.7 | 37.7 | 33.2 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 13.8 |
| Non-OECD | 81.5 | 40.3 | 62.3 | 40.3 | 17.9 | 51.1 | 31.8 |
| East Asia and the Pacific | 29.8 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 37.1 | 5.3 | 29.7 | 21.5 |
| Europe and North America | 14.6 | 51.3 | 35.1 | 31.9 | 0.8 | 4.6 | 13.8 |
| Latin America and the Caribbean | 8.7 | 31.5 | 34.0 | 46.1 | 6.3 | 29.5 | 26.8 |
| Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia | 7.7 | 5.8 | 8.1 | 33.9 | 5.5 | 35.0 | 21.6 |
| South Asia | 24.7 | 6.9 | 14.6 | 34.6 | 9.3 | 62.8 | 25.4 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 14.6 | 2.4 | 5.8 | 44.1 | 37.8 | 79.5 | 45.7 |
| All countries | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 38.5 | 13.6 | 39.1 | 27.2 |
Notes: Means for the Gini coefficient and poverty rates are unweighted. For definitions and sources, see Table 1. COVID-19 = coronavirus disease 2019; OECD = Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Source:Author’s calculations.