Latest figures from the World Bank with a Gini index of 61.3 for Namibia have revealed a widening gap between Namibia's rich and poor, making our country the second most unequal country in the world.
The Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income or consumption expenditure among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution.
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