posts_gdocs: 1GY4V1axH09CJGqxFDXP77PUHaNaqj686il-LgbkUe8U

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                    "text": "Globally, there are large differences in the estimated share of income received by the richest 1% of the population. In Norway and Slovakia, it\u2019s 7%; 27% in Mexico, and 31% in Mozambique and the Central African Republic.",
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                    "text": "You might expect these numbers to be strongly correlated to a country's level of economic development. But ",
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                    "url": "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-top-1-before-tax-vs-gdp-per-capita",
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                            "text": "this isn't always the case",
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                    "text": ". In the United States, for example, 1% of its population takes home 21% of national income. This is relatively high globally.",
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                    "text": "The data comes from the ",
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                            "text": "World Inequality Database",
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                    "text": ", and we just updated our charts with their latest data. The data above is based on income before taxes and benefits, but after-tax incomes show a broadly ",
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                            "text": "similar inequality map",
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                    "url": "https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/inequality?facet=none&Data=World+Inequality+Database+%28Incomes+before+tax%29&Indicator=Share+of+the+richest+1%25&country=CHL~BRA~ZAF~USA~FRA~CHN",
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                            "text": "Explore this data",
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                    "text": " \u2192",
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    "title": "How much of national income goes to the richest\u00a01%?",
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