Apparently they have a lower GINI than the US by now and are actually much closer to Italy than America when it comes to it, though they do still have a higher income ration between the top and bottom 10% for what it's worth.
Free and open access to global development data
data.worldbank.org
The chart shows how incomes are spread in several countries in different world regions. The data comes from the excellent Luxembourg Income Study.
ourworldindata.org
They really aren't. Basically everything you can think of as being a metric of wellbeing and how good life is is positively correlated with GDP per capita. There is literally no downside to economic growth, and there's a reason why basically every poor country wishes it could've done what the Chinese did.
Which is a position every other poor country would wish to be in. They are one of the few nonwhites who have reached Europe-like living standards and have been one of the main drivers of poverty reduction globally, there's really no way to undersell what happened in that country in the last few decades.
Pollution was a massive problem during the industrial revolution though, and in more recent times it was only mitigated in developed countries thanks to them being able to export their waste and move their more polluting infrastructure to poorer places.
This could be wrong, but apparently 20% farmland pollution is barely above world average:
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The source on water scarcity is from 2006, so I tried to find some recent stats. From what I've found, they have decent quality water, and freshwater resources comparable to the UK or Germany in per capita terms.
en.wikipedia.org
www.visualcapitalist.com
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