2005 US Income Distribution part 2

by Catherine Mulbrandon on December 5, 2006

I went back to my 2005 US Income Distribution graph and changed the scale to match the logarithmic scale used in Gapminder’s World income distribution 2003 graph which shows the historical income distribution from 1970-2000 for selected countries.

{Click on the graph to take a closer look}
2005 log Income Distribution magnifying glass

See Also: Part 1 and Part 3

[tags]US Income Distribution, Gapminder, World Income, Census Income Distribution[/tags]

Tagged as: Distribution of Income, Income - Average, Median, Scatter plot, United States, US Census, World

  • Stephano Andreas

    This is absurd. Your visuals deliberately show that VERY FEW PEOPLE make more than
    250, 000.

    They deliberately CONCEAL that those VERY FEW PEOPLE make almost ALL the money.

  • Stephano Andreas

    Uh, it’s called a “Lorenz curve” look into it…

    The United States’ Lorenz curve approximates, near perfectly, the “line of
    perfect inequality.

    http://www.lcurve.org/

  • Bruce

    Catherine,

    I love your work. Thank you.

    The data is what the data is.

    Bruce

  • Dan

    Bruce Johnson is right.

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