| In 2014 The Gini coefficient for Mauritas was 30 and for France it was 40. The top 1% in France has about 20% of the total income as of 2014. For Mauritas no suitable data was found for wealth inequality or dispersion of earnings. The lack of good data for Mauritas makes a comparison between the two questionable. Plus even after looking at the numbers for these countries I would want to check out money laundering - if I recall, based on the Panama papers, a nontrivial amount of the 1% (probably more like the 0.1%s) wealth is laundered/hidden/dark. I don’t know if the studies here attempt to account for that or not. I would imagine money laundering is prevalent in France (or any major economy for that matter), possibly in Mauritas https://www.chartbookofeconomicinequality.com/inequality-by-... https://www.chartbookofeconomicinequality.com/inequality-by-... Information on data sources here - https://www.chartbookofeconomicinequality.com/about/ As of 2018 the population of Mauritas is 1.26 million (via google search). The 2018 population of France is 65.23 million (via google search). The 2014 population probably was not radically different. I wonder if the size of the society in question matters here - is comparing a country to one 65 times larger than it useful? I did not look for data to validate the hypothesis that everyone is pretty happy in Mauritas as opposed to France. |