South Africa: The Most Unequal Country on Earth

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South Africa has the world's highest Gini coefficient — around 0.63. That means inequality is so extreme that the top 10% of earners take home more than 65% of all income. In a crowd of 2,000 South Africans, roughly 200 people hold the same income as the other 1,800 combined. This gap is a direct legacy of apartheid, which denied the majority of the population access to education, property, and formal employment for decades.