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Inequality may refer to:
Economics
- Attention inequality, unequal distribution of attention across users, groups of people, issues in etc. in attention economy
- Economic inequality, difference in economic well-being between population groups
- Spatial inequality, the unequal distribution of income and resources across geographical regions
- Income inequality metrics, used to measure income and economic inequality among participants in a particular economy
- International inequality, economic differences between countries
Environmental
Healthcare
- Health equity, the study of differences in the quality of health and healthcare across different populations
Mathematics
- Inequality (mathematics), a relation between two values when they are different
Social sciences
- Educational inequality, the unequal distribution of academic resources to socially excluded communities
- Gender inequality, unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals due to their gender
- Participation inequality, the phenomenon in which a small percentage of people contributes the majority of information to the total outcome
- Racial inequality, hierarchical social distinctions between racial and ethnic categories within a society
- Social inequality, unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group
See also
- Equality (disambiguation)
- Equal (disambiguation)
- Inequation (≠)
- List of countries by wealth inequality
- List of countries by income inequality
- List of inequalities