Inequality Trends Report: A multidimensional diagnostic of inequality in South Africa

Inequality Trends Report: A multidimensional diagnostic of inequality in South Africa

FEBRUARY 2020

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Facilitated by the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research, the Inequality Trends Report is the product of a partnership between Statistics South Africa, the Agence Française de Développement and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, and partially funded through the European Union’s Research Facility on Inequalities. 

The report used a wide range of data sources to present a broad overview of various dimensions of inequality including on household income and expenditure, assets, earnings, employment, education, health, access to basic services, and social mobility. The report will serve as a baseline diagnostic to assist the country to track its performance in ensuring that all people in South Africa share the same opportunities and have equal access in realising those opportunities.



About the event



The event will provide stakeholders with:

• An overview of the findings of the report along with an in-depth focus on select sections that best illustrate the key inequality challenges facing South Africa.
• A structured engagement with key stakeholders representing government, academia, civil society, labour unions, international organisations and the wider research community. These stakeholders will have the opportunity to present their ideas and proposed actions and strategies for confronting inequality.
• A stock-take of individual and collective ways forward, including discussion on further research gaps that need to be filled to better enable the country to understand and reduce inequality.