People around the world see various factors as contributing to economic inequality in their country:
- Majorities in almost every country surveyed believe all six factors we asked about lead to economic inequality at least a fair amount. However, there are differences over whether each contributes a great deal.
- In 31 of 36 countries, more say that rich people having too much political influence leads to economic inequality than say this about any other factor.
- A median of 48% of adults say problems with their country’s education system contribute a great deal to economic inequality.
- Around four-in-ten say some people being born with more opportunities than others (40%) and some people working harder than others (39%) are factors that contribute a great deal.
- Fewer point to the impact of robots and computers doing the work previously done by humans (31%) or to discrimination against racial or ethnic minorities…
