Praxis II Citizenship

Answer: A - In 2010 Zambia had a Gini index of 57.5. The Gini index represents a country’s economic equality on a scale of 0 to 100. Zero, representing perfect equality, is ideal, whereas a score of 100 represents perfect inequality. The higher a nation’s score, the more its wealth is concentrated in a faction of the general populace. As an impoverished nation in southern Africa, Zambia was the most likely to have such high economic inequality. By comparison, Mexico’s 2010 Gini index was 47.2, Jordan’s was 35.4, and Romania’s was 24.2. The United States’ Gini index was 47.7.