Global inequality rivals South Africa's

When you compute a single global Gini (treating humanity as one country) scholars estimate roughly 0.61–0.68, which is in the same range as South Africa’s within‑country Gini of 0.63. That comparison reframes how we think about inequality: the moral and political scale of gaps between countries can be as large as the worst internal inequality cases, so policy debates about redistribution, migration, and international transfers should consider cross‑country disparity alongside domestic inequality. — This framing shifts attention from only within‑country redistribution to international inequality as a politically and morally comparable problem, affecting migration politics, development policy, and global governance.