Editing Gini coefficient (section)

=== Regional income Gini indices ===
According to UNICEF, Latin America and the Caribbean region had the highest net income Gini index in the world at 48.3, on an unweighted average basis in 2008. The remaining regional averages were: sub-Saharan Africa (44.2), Asia (40.4), Middle East and North Africa (39.2), Eastern Europe and Central Asia (35.4), and High-income Countries (30.9). Using the same method, the United States is claimed to have a Gini index of 36, while South Africa had the highest income Gini index score of 67.8.<ref name=unicef2011>{{cite web|title=Global Inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion|publisher=UNICEF|date=April 2011|first1=Isabel|last1=Ortiz|first2=Matthew|last2=Cummins|page=26|url=http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/files/Global_Inequality_REVISED_-_5_July.pdf|access-date=30 July 2012|archive-date=12 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812232455/http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/files/Global_Inequality_REVISED_-_5_July.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>