 Income disparity is a major source of social inequality in Brazil.In 2001, Brazil had a relatively high Gini coefficient of 0.59 for income disparity, meaning that the disparity between the incomes of any two randomly selected Brazilians was nearly 1.2 times the average.The World Bank estimates that the top 20% of the richest Brazilians have roughly 33 times the income share of the poorest 20%.