基尼系数

基尼係數

Jīní xìshù

noun

Meanings

1 Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality

Characters

Gi-, a sound syllable

-ni, a sound syllable

relation; system

Examples

HSK 6

经济学家常用基尼系数来衡量一个国家的收入差距。

Jīngjìxuéjiā cháng yòng Jīní xìshù lái héngliáng yí ge guójiā de shōurù chājù.

Economists often use the Gini coefficient to measure a country's income gap.

HSK 7-9

基尼系数越高，贫富差距越大。

Jīní xìshù yuè gāo, pínfù chājù yuè dà.

The higher the Gini coefficient, the bigger the gap between rich and poor.

Tips

usage

It runs from 0 (everyone earns the same) to 1 (one person has everything), and 0.4 is widely treated as the 警戒线, the warning line for dangerous inequality. Named after the Italian statistician Corrado Gini.

Stroke Order

基 jī

尼 ní

系 xì

数 shù