Out of all 50 states, New York had the highest per-capita real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, at 92,341 U.S. dollars, followed closely by Massachusetts. Mississippi had the lowest per-capita real GDP, at 41,603 U.S. dollars. While not a state, the District of Columbia had a per capita GDP of more than 210,780 U.S. dollars. What is real GDP? A country’s real GDP is a measure that shows the value of the goods and services produced by an economy and is adjusted for inflation. The real GDP of a country helps economists to see the health of a country’s economy and its standard of living. Downturns in GDP growth can indicate financial difficulties, such as the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, when the U.S. GDP decreased by 2.5 percent. The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on U.S. GDP, shrinking the economy 2.8 percent. The U.S. economy rebounded in 2021, however, growing by nearly six percent. Why real GDP per capita matters Real GDP per capita takes the GDP of a country, state, or metropolitan area and divides it by the number of people in that area. Some argue that per-capita GDP is more important than the GDP of a country, as it is a good indicator of whether or not the country’s population is getting wealthier, thus increasing the standard of living in that area. The best measure of standard of living when comparing across countries is thought to be GDP per capita at purchasing power parity (PPP) which uses the prices of specific goods to compare the absolute purchasing power of a countries currency.

This survey represents the thoughts of the U.S. population concerning the income gap between the rich and the poor in 2012. In 2012, 65 percent of the respondents thought that the income gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has gotten larger in the past ten years. The number of ultra high net worth individuals in each region worldwide can be accessed here.

Globally, the gap between the richest and poorest population is widening, and United States of America is no exception. Waldo Tobler's First Law of Geography states that near things are more related than distant things, which can sometimes be seen within a map as clustering of features. Use this map to explore the distribution of households within the income extremes.The app allows the user to explore an area by typing an area of interest into the search bar. Dot density is used to represent multiple households per dot and are contained within census tract boundaries. A pop-up appears at larger scales in order to provide a chart comparing the household count for the highest and lowest income ranges. The highest income range covers households which make $200,000 or more a year. The lowest income range shows households making less than $25,000 a year. The map is shown from 36M scale to 72K scale and is designed to be displayed on the Dark Gray Canvas Basemap.The data within this map comes from Esri's Updated Demographics. The vintage of the data and boundaries is 2015.

This research describes the demographic attributes of both rich and poor households, and also the composition of their holdings. The data are drawn from surveys of household wealth conducted for the Federal Reserve Board in 1983, 1989, and 1992, years that approximate the turning points of the 1982-1991 business cycle.

New York was the state with the greatest gap between rich and poor, with a Gini coefficient score of 0.52 in 2023. Although not a state, District of Columbia was among the highest Gini coefficients in the United States that year.

In the first quarter of 2025, almost two-thirds percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.5 percent of the total wealth. Income inequality in the U.S. Despite the idea that the United States is a country where hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps will inevitably lead to success, this is often not the case. In 2023, 7.4 percent of U.S. households had an annual income under 15,000 U.S. dollars. With such a small percentage of people in the United States owning such a vast majority of the country’s wealth, the gap between the rich and poor in America remains stark. The top one percent The United States was the country with the most billionaires in the world in 2025. Elon Musk, with a net worth of 342 billion U.S. dollars, was among the richest people in the United States in 2025. Over the past 50 years, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio has exploded, causing the gap between rich and poor to grow, with some economists theorizing that this gap is the largest it has been since right before the Great Depression.

In the third quarter of 2024, the top ten percent of earners in the United States held over ** percent of total wealth. This is fairly consistent with the second quarter of 2024. Comparatively, the wealth of the bottom ** percent of earners has been slowly increasing since the start of the *****, though remains low. Wealth distribution in the United States by generation can be found here.

In 2023, **** percent of Black people living in the United States were living below the poverty line, compared to *** percent of white people. That year, the total poverty rate in the U.S. across all races and ethnicities was **** percent. Poverty in the United States Single people in the United States making less than ****** U.S. dollars a year and families of four making less than ****** U.S. dollars a year are considered to be below the poverty line. Women and children are more likely to suffer from poverty, due to women staying home more often than men to take care of children, and women suffering from the gender wage gap. Not only are women and children more likely to be affected, racial minorities are as well due to the discrimination they face. Poverty data Despite being one of the wealthiest nations in the world, the United States had the third highest poverty rate out of all OECD countries in 2019. However, the United States' poverty rate has been fluctuating since 1990, but has been decreasing since 2014. The average median household income in the U.S. has remained somewhat consistent since 1990, but has recently increased since 2014 until a slight decrease in 2020, potentially due to the pandemic. The state that had the highest number of people living below the poverty line in 2020 was California.

While most Americans appear to acknowledge the large gap between the rich and the poor in the U.S., it is not clear if the public is aware of recent changes in income inequality. Even though economic inequality has grown substantially in recent decades, studies have shown that the public's perception of growing income disparities has remained mostly unchanged since the 1980s. This research offers an alternative approach to evaluating how public perceptions of inequality are developed. Centrally, it conceptualizes the public's response to growing economic disparities by applying theories of macro-political behavior and place-based contextual effects to the formation of aggregate perceptions about income inequality. It is argued that most of the public relies on basic information about the economy to form attitudes about inequality and that geographic context---in this case, the American states---plays a role in how views of income disparities are produced. A new measure of state perceptions of growing economic inequality over a 25-year period is used to examine whether the public is responsive to objective changes in economic inequality. Time-series cross-sectional analyses suggest that the public's perceptions of growing inequality are largely influenced by objective state economic indicators and state political ideology. This research has implications for how knowledgeable the public is of disparities between the rich and the poor, whether state context influences attitudes about inequality, and what role the public will have in determining how expanding income differences are addressed through government policy.

This data collection focuses on the federal budget deficit and on issues dealing with the rich and the poor in America. Respondents were asked if they approved of the way George Bush, Democrats in Congress, and Republicans in Congress were handling the the federal budget deficit, and who was more to blame for the larger deficit. Additionally, respondents were asked how much money it takes to be rich in the United States, whether they would want to be rich, how likely it was that they would ever be rich or poor, whether the percentage of Americans who are rich was increasing, and whether they respected and admired rich people. Other questions asked respondents if they characterized rich people as more likely to be honest, snobbish, intelligent, and a variety of other traits, whether respondents would be more or less likely to vote for a candidate who was a millionaire/self-made millionaire, and which political party better represented the interests of poor, rich, and middle class people. Background information on respondents includes political alignment, 1988 presidential vote choice, registered voter status, education, age, religion, social class, marital status, number of people in the household, labor union membership, employment status, race, income, sex, and state/region of residence.

Why do the rich and poor support different parties in some places? We argue that voting along class lines is more likely to occur where states can tax the income and assets of the wealthy. In low bureaucratic capacity states, the rich are less likely to participate in electoral politics because they have less to fear from redistributive policy. When wealthy citizens abstain from voting, politicians face a more impoverished electorate. Because politicians cannot credibly campaign on anti-tax platforms, they are less likely to emphasize redistribution and partisan preferences are less likely to diverge across income groups. Using cross-national survey data, we show there is more class voting in countries with greater bureaucratic capacity. We also show that class voting and fiscal capacity were correlated in the United States in the mid-1930s when state-level revenue collection and party systems were less dependent on national economic policy.

The gross domestic product (GDP) of California was about 4.1 trillion U.S. dollars in 2024, meaning that it contributed the most out of any state to the country’s GDP in that year. In contrast, Vermont had the lowest GDP in the United States, with 45.71 billion U.S. dollars. What is GDP? Gross domestic product, or GDP, is the total monetary value of all goods and services produced by an economy within a certain time period. GDP is used by economists to determine the economic health of an area, as well as to determine the size of the economy. GDP can be determined for countries, states and provinces, and metropolitan areas. While GDP is a good measure of the absolute size of a country's economy and economic activity, it does account for many other factors, making it a poor indicator for measuring the cost or standard of living in a country, or for making cross-country comparisons. GDP of the United States The United States has the largest gross domestic product in the world as of 2023, with China, Japan, Germany, and India rounding out the top five. The GDP of the United States has almost quadrupled since 1990, when it was about 5.9 trillion U.S. dollars, to about 25.46 trillion U.S. dollars in 2022.

In recent decades, policy initiatives involving increases in the tobacco tax have increased pressure on budget allocations in poor households. In this study, we examine this issue in the context of the expansion of the social welfare state that has taken place over the last two decades in several emerging economies. This study explores the case of Colombia between 1997 and 2011. In this period, the budget share of the poorest expenditure quintile devoted to tobacco products of smokers’ households doubled. We analyse the differences between the poorest and richest quintiles concerning the changes in budget shares, fixing a reference population over time to avoid demographic composition confounders. We find no evidence of crowding-out of education or healthcare expenditures. This is likely to be the result of free universal access to health insurance and basic education for the poor. For higher-income households, tobacco crowds out expenditures on entertainment, leisure activities, and luxury expenditures. This finding should reassure policymakers who are keen to impose tobacco taxes as an element of their public health policy.

Child mortality is often described as the best barometer of social and economic progress. Despite being one of the fastest growing economies, there has been no visible pattern between per capita income growth and the rate of reduction of child mortality rates. The Child Mortality (less than 5 years) in India constitutes about 18% to total deaths in the country. The decline in child mortality over the last nearly two decades masks a dangerous expansion of the child mortality gap between the richest and poorest families in India. Under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and within its umbrella the Reproductive and Child Health Programme Phase II, several interventions have been taken to accelerate the pace of reduction of child mortality. The Under five mortality Millennium Development Goal for 2015 for India is 38 (Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015) per 1000 live births which have reached to the level of 59 per 1000 live births in 2010. The under-five mortality is the probability (5q0) that a child born in a specific year or time period will die before reaching the age of five, subject to current age specific mortality rates. It is expressed as a rate per 1,000 live births. Office of Registrar General, India provides estimates of under five mortality India annually since 2008.

In the first quarter of 2024, almost two-thirds percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.5 percent of the total wealth. Income inequality in the U.S. Despite the idea that the United States is a country where hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps will inevitably lead to success, this is often not the case. In 2023, 7.4 percent of U.S. households had an annual income under 15,000 U.S. dollars. With such a small percentage of people in the United States owning such a vast majority of the country’s wealth, the gap between the rich and poor in America remains stark. The top one percent The United States follows closely behind China as the country with the most billionaires in the world. Elon Musk alone held around 219 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. Over the past 50 years, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio has exploded, causing the gap between rich and poor to grow, with some economists theorizing that this gap is the largest it has been since right before the Great Depression.

ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate socioeconomic and demographic differences regarding population aging in municipalities of the state of Pará, Brazil. Method: Ecological study with secondary demographic, socioeconomic and health data from the 144 municipalities of the state of Pará, Brazil. Data were treated with segmentation analysis, the Mann-Whitney U test and logistic regression models, with a significance level of p ≤ 0.05. Results: Segmentation analysis provided a single variable to describe aging in the municipalities of Pará and originated two clusters, the high and low aging rate ones, with 104 (72.22%) and 40 (27.78%) municipalities in each, respectively. The fitted model revealed an association between aging and per capita income (p = 0.021), vulnerability to poverty (p = 0.003), rich to poor ratio (p = 0.012) and density of people (p = 0.019). Conclusion: There is heterogeneity in the population aging among the municipalities of Pará, mainly regarding socioeconomic conditions and number of people living in the municipalities.

In 2021, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the city with the highest poverty rate of the United States' most populated cities. In this statistic, the cities are sorted by poverty rate, not population. The most populated city in 2021 according to the source was New York city - which had a poverty rate of 18 percent.

Individual & household-level characteristics of respondents.

Former self-employed persons were interviewed about their general living conditions, their attitudes towards self-employment, the opportunities and problems of setting up a business, the measures to promote self-employment and their political and social attitudes.

Topics: 1. Professional situation: gainful employment; current occupation; occupation within the last five years; general life satisfaction; assessment of the current own economic situation; number of employees; professional activity; business start-up.

1. Attitude towards self-employment: motivation to become self-employed (e.g. self-determined work, flexible working hours, new challenges, etc.); reasons for terminating self-employment (ranking, e.g. too much bureaucracy, high workload, too low income, etc.); willingness to become self-employed again; reasons against becoming self-employed again

2. Business start-up: evaluation of the current conditions for business start-ups in Germany.

3. Advice and support: desired measures of advice and support during self-employment (open).

4. Political and social attitudes: political interest; self-perception of the self-employed (in Germany the self-employed receive too little recognition, politics takes the concerns of the self-employed seriously, Germany is an entrepreneur-friendly country); attitudes towards the state and society based on opposing positions (scale of 7: state should guarantee comprehensive social security for citizens vs. leave it to citizens to take personal responsibility, state intervention in the economy vs. free enterprise, state should support people in emergency situations through no fault of their own for a certain period of time vs. balance between rich and poor, economy must make profits vs. benefit the common good, right of the state to restrict citizens´ freedom to protect against crime vs. protection of citizens´ freedom from state intervention, preferred social system: strong political leadership vs. democratic citizen participation, performance principle vs. solidarity principle, education policy as equal opportunity vs. promotion of elites, dependence of social progress on origin and property vs. performance, lower taxes and contributions vs. more welfare benefits); party sympathy.

Demography: age; sex; federal state; school education: highest general school leaving certificate; vocational training: type of vocational training qualification; self-assessment of social class; net household income; city size; size of household.

Additionally coded: ID; weighting factor.

Former self-employed persons were interviewed about their general living conditions, their attitudes towards self-employment, the opportunities and problems of setting up a business, the measures to promote self-employment and their political and social attitudes. Topics: 1. Professional situation: gainful employment; current occupation; occupation within the last five years; general life satisfaction; assessment of the current own economic situation; number of employees; professional activity; business start-up. 2. Attitude towards self-employment: motivation to become self-employed (e.g. self-determined work, flexible working hours, new challenges, etc.); reasons for terminating self-employment (ranking, e.g. too much bureaucracy, high workload, too low income, etc.); willingness to become self-employed again; reasons against becoming self-employed again 3. Business start-up: evaluation of the current conditions for business start-ups in Germany. 4. Advice and support: desired measures of advice and support during self-employment (open). 5. Political and social attitudes: political interest; self-perception of the self-employed (in Germany the self-employed receive too little recognition, politics takes the concerns of the self-employed seriously, Germany is an entrepreneur-friendly country); attitudes towards the state and society based on opposing positions (scale of 7: state should guarantee comprehensive social security for citizens vs. leave it to citizens to take personal responsibility, state intervention in the economy vs. free enterprise, state should support people in emergency situations through no fault of their own for a certain period of time vs. balance between rich and poor, economy must make profits vs. benefit the common good, right of the state to restrict citizens´ freedom to protect against crime vs. protection of citizens´ freedom from state intervention, preferred social system: strong political leadership vs. democratic citizen participation, performance principle vs. solidarity principle, education policy as equal opportunity vs. promotion of elites, dependence of social progress on origin and property vs. performance, lower taxes and contributions vs. more welfare benefits); party sympathy. Demography: age; sex; federal state; school education: highest general school leaving certificate; vocational training: type of vocational training qualification; self-assessment of social class; net household income; city size; size of household. Additionally coded: ID; weighting factor. Befragt wurden ehemalige Selbstständige zu ihren allgemeinen Lebensumständen, ihren Einstellungen zur Selbstständigkeit, zu Chancen und Problemen bei der Existenzgründung, zu den Fördermaßnahmen zur Selbstständigkeit sowie zu ihren politischen und gesellschaftlichen Einstellungen. Themen: 1. Berufliche Situation: Erwerbstätigkeit; derzeitige Tätigkeit; Tätigkeit innerhalb der letzten fünf Jahre; allgemeine Lebenszufriedenheit; Beurteilung der derzeitigen eigenen wirtschaftlichen Lage; Anzahl der Mitarbeiter; berufliche Tätigkeit; Existenzgründung. 2. Einstellung zur Selbstständigkeit: Motivation zur Selbstständigkeit (z.B. eigenbestimmtes Arbeiten, flexible Arbeitszeiten, neue Herausforderungen, etc.); Gründe für Beendigung der Selbstständigkeit (Rangfolge, z.B. zu hoher bürokratischer Aufwand, hohe Arbeitsbelastung, zu geringes Einkommen,, etc.); Bereitschaft zu erneuter Selbstständigkeit; Gründe gegen eine erneute Selbstständigkeit. 3. Existenzgründung: Bewertung der derzeitigen Bedingungen für Existenzgründungen in Deutschland. 4. Beratung und Förderung: gewünschte Maßnahmen der Beratung und Förderung während der Selbstständigkeit (offen). 5. Politische und gesellschaftliche Einstellungen: Politikinteresse; Selbstwahrnehmung der Selbständigen (in Deutschland bekommen Selbstständige zu wenig Anerkennung, die Politik nimmt die Sorgen der Selbstständigen ernst, Deutschland ist ein unternehmerfreundliches Land); Einstellung zu Staat und Gesellschaft anhand von gegensätzlichen Positionen (7er Skala: Staat soll umfassende soziale Absicherung der Bürger garantieren vs. der Eigenverantwortung der Bürger überlassen, staatliche Eingriffe in die Wirtschaft vs. freie Wirtschaft, Staat sollte Menschen in unverschuldeten Notsituationen eine gewisse Zeit unterstützen vs. Ausgleich zwischen Arm und Reich schaffen, Wirtschaft muss Gewinne erzielen vs. dem Gemeinwohl nützen, Recht des Staates auf Einschränkung der Freiheit der Bürger zum Schutz vor Kriminalität vs. Schutz der Freiheit der Bürger vor Eingriffen des Staates, präferiertes Gesellschaftssystem: starke politische Führung vs. demokratische Bürgerbeteiligung, Leistungsprinzip vs. Solidaritätsprinzip, Bildungspolitik als Chancengleichheit vs. Elitenförderung, Abhängigkeit des gesellschaftlichen Fortkommens von Herkunft und Besitz vs. Leistung, weniger Steuern und Abgaben vs. mehr sozialstaatliche Leistungen); Parteisympathie. Demographie: Alter; Geschlecht; Bundesland; Schulbildung: höchster allgemeinbildender Schulabschluss; berufliche Bildung: Art des beruflichen Ausbildungsabschlusses; Selbsteinschätzung soziale Schichtzugehörigkeit; Haushaltsnettoeinkommen; Ortsgröße; Haushaltsgröße. Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: ID; Gewichtungsfaktor.