The Southern African Customs Union, SACU, comprising Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa, is the world’s most unequal region. This is according to a World Bank report on Southern Africa’s Inequality released today. Based on Gini coefficients1 or income per capita, South Africa, the largest country in SACU, is the most unequal country in the world, ranking first among 164 countries in the World Bank’s global poverty database. For more on this, is the co-author of the report, Pierella Paci, who is Practice Manager of the Poverty and Equity Group of the World Bank covering Eastern and Southern Africa.
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