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Corrado Gini
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1884-05-23 ) 23 May 1884, Motta di Livenza , Veneto , Kingdom of Italy
- Died
- 13 March 1965 (1965-03-13) (aged 80), Rome, Italy
- Citizenship
- Italian
- Alma mater
- University of Bologna
- Known for
- Gini coefficient
- Fields
- Statistics Demography Sociology
- Institutions
- University of Cagliari University of Padua Sapienza University of Rome
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Corrado
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Motta di Livenza
- Place of death
- Rome
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Bologna
- Employer
- University of Cagliari
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- Italian
- Notable work
- Gini coefficient
- Field of work
- demography
- Image
- Corrado Gini.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1884-05-23
- date of death
- 1965-03-13
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Corrado Gini
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- Commons category
- Corrado Gini
- writing language
- Italian
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Encyclopedic overview
Corrado Gini (23 May 1884 – 13 March 1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was a proponent of organicism and applied it to nations. Gini was a eugenicist, and prior to and during World War II, he was an advocate of Italian Fascism. Following the war, he founded the Italian Unionist Movement, which advocated for the annexation of Italy by the United States.
Career
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