The line chart illustrates the percentage of income earned by 1% of population in seven different countries from 1975 to 2015
It is obvious that there was an increasing tendency of the earnings of countries, especially the USA. The proportion of wages between the USA, the UK, Canada and Germany became unequal overtime while the others whose was in the lower level was more even.
In term of the nations which had the higher level of income, there was a similar pattern of figures in the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom which participated in the rank in 1990. To be specific, the wages of people in the USA considerably rose in circa 1987 at around 8% and then it fluctuated between 13% before the rate reached the peak three times with increasing levels in around 2002, 2006 and 2013, respectively at over 12%, 17%, 18%. Similarly, the highest rank followed by the UK and Canada in the order. Besides, the percentages of Germany oscillated at around 10% and rocketed in 2004.
As for the countries with the smaller gap between their input, France and Italy had the similar decreased about 1, 2% while Japan grew moderately at 7, 5% in the first decade. In the next 10 years, The three countries’ figures all increased and almost overlapped at about 7, 7%. Although there was a slight decline at begining of 1990s, the nations continued to soared to the final rates just below 9%