Inequality Quiz

Fill in the blank: Twenty of the richest billionaires are estimated, on average, to be emitting as much as _____ times more carbon than the billion poorest people

• 500

• 3000

• 8000

• 10000

Using which definition of global inequality can it be argued that global inequality has decreased from around 1980 to around 2010?

• inequality between individuals of the world

• population-weighted inequality between countries

• unweighted inequality between countries

In 2017, the U.S. had the highest level of income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, among G7 countries. Which of the 7 countries had the lowest level of income inequality?

• Germany

• Japan

• France

• U.K.

According to the 2021 Global Gender Gap Index compiled annually be the World Economic Forum, which country has the highest gender equality?

• Sweden

• Iceland

• New Zealand

• Lithuania

How high was the wealth share of the richest 1% in Germany in 2021 (answer is rounded up)?

• 4%

• 11%

• 29%

• 36%

Who said it? “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

• Karl Marx

• Bernie Sanders

• Pope Francis

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

In 1989 a comedic drama film produced, directed, and written by Spike Lee, which focused on the injustice of racial inequality in the U.S., was released. What was the name of the film?

• 25th Hour

• Losing Ground

• Do the Right Thing

• Boyz n the Hood

How many people in the world lack access to clean water today

• 2.2 billion

• 3.5 billion

• 4.2 billion

• 6.4 billion

According to the German Federal Statistical Office, what is the percentage of the current adjusted gender pay gap?

• 4%

• 7%

• 18%

• 26%

How much of global wealth was owned by the richest 1% of people in the world in 2020?

• 5%

• 25%

• 45%

• 65%