Comparative income inequality, U.S. share of income for wealthiest (a work in progress)

This chart shows the income inequality in the U.S. as compared with the median income inequality level of selected Western European countries in the period 1999 to 2008, with the exception of 2002 (for which only very limited Western European data were available). The size of each year’s blue dot gives a visual representation of the share of income held by the top-half of one-percent of the U.S. population.