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Barbara Anderson

For inequality, Mexico

Since 1820 to date we have the same levels of inequality and 10% of the population still concentrates more than half of the total wealth.
For inequality, Mexico
By Barbara Anderson

Together with South Africa, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates, we are four of the most unequal economies in the world.

This is not new. According to the latest World Inequality Report 2022, the picture of wealth accumulation in a very low percentage of the population and the volume of people living in poverty has hardly changed in 200 years (the report goes back to 1820).

If the first Mexican president, Guadalupe Victoria, had presented a powerpoint on the distribution of the economic power of the individuals living in the country: with 6 million inhabitants, 10% of the population concentrated between 50% of the income, while 50% of the country lived in extreme poverty, with only 5 to 15% of the income.

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