Editing Cape Town (section)

=== Inequality ===
The city of Cape Town's [[Gini coefficient]] of 0.58<ref>{{Cite web |last=Western Cape Government |date=2017 |title=SEP Socio-Economic Profile: City of Cape Town |url=https://www.westerncape.gov.za/assets/departments/treasury/Documents/Socio-economic-profiles/2017/city_of_cape_town_2017_socio-economic_profile_sep-lg_-_26_january_2018.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216153612/https://www.westerncape.gov.za/assets/departments/treasury/Documents/Socio-economic-profiles/2017/city_of_cape_town_2017_socio-economic_profile_sep-lg_-_26_january_2018.pdf |archive-date=16 February 2019 |access-date=16 February 2019 |website=westerncape.gov.za}}</ref> is lower than South Africa's Gini coefficient of 0.7. This makes it more equal than the rest of the country, including any other major South African city, although still highly unequal by international standards.<ref name="IOL inequality">{{Cite web |date=4 December 2012 |title=Cape Town least unequal SA city – Politics &#124; IOL News |url=http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/cape-town-least-unequal-sa-city-1.1435199 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112205522/http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/cape-town-least-unequal-sa-city-1.1435199#.UjdA9KwazCR |archive-date=12 January 2014 |access-date=24 February 2014 |publisher=IOL.co.za}}</ref><ref name="Geni2000">{{Cite web |date=August 2005 |title=A profile of the Western Cape province: Demographics, poverty, inequality and unemployment |url=http://www.elsenburg.com/provide/documents/BP2005_1_1%20Demographics%20WC.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624163440/http://elsenburg.com/provide/documents/BP2005_1_1%20Demographics%20WC.pdf |archive-date=24 June 2011 |access-date=30 January 2012 |publisher=Elsenburg}}</ref>

Between 2001 and 2010 the city's Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality, improved by dropping from 0.59 in 2007 to 0.57 in 2010<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Regional Development Profile – City of Cape Town |url=https://www.westerncape.gov.za/text/2011/12/dc0_city_of_cape_town_15_dec_2011_(mb).pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616203157/https://www.westerncape.gov.za/Text/2011/12/dc0_city_of_cape_town_15_dec_2011_(mb).pdf |archive-date=16 June 2022 |access-date=4 June 2022 |website=Western Cape Government |page=23}}</ref> only to increase to 0.58 by 2017.<ref name="Socio-economic profile">{{Cite web |last=Western Cape Government |date=2017 |title=SEP Socio-Economic Profile: City of Cape Town |url=https://www.westerncape.gov.za/assets/departments/treasury/Documents/Socio-economic-profiles/2017/city_of_cape_town_2017_socio-economic_profile_sep-lg_-_26_january_2018.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216153612/https://www.westerncape.gov.za/assets/departments/treasury/Documents/Socio-economic-profiles/2017/city_of_cape_town_2017_socio-economic_profile_sep-lg_-_26_january_2018.pdf |archive-date=16 February 2019 |website=westerncape.gov.za}}</ref>