You now have an understanding of how money and wealth can be measured on a large scale. It is now time to apply your understanding of these tools to evaluate wealth distribution across the world. To do this, you will be reading information from University of California Santa Cruz Atlas of Global Inequality. This site has great information in both graphic and table based layouts as well as scholarly discussions on topics of wealth distribution.

Your Reading :

• Read the information about Gross Domestic Product
• Read the information about Gross National Product
• Look at the maps showing the data over time
• Look at the data in table format (link found in the top left corner)

Your Assignment

• Using the table data, separate the countries into 3 categories: high, middle, and low income
• Write a summary about where you made your dividing lines between countries and explain why you chose those numbers
• Describe is the average difference in income between your low and high income countries.