Corrado Gini

Corrado Gini
Born	(1884-05-23)May 23, 1884 Motta di Livenza, Veneto, Kingdom of Italy
Died	March 13, 1965(1965-03-13) (aged 80) Rome, Italy
Citizenship	Italian
Alma mater	University of Bologna
Known for	Gini coefficient
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics Demography Sociology
Institutions	University of Cagliari University of Padua Sapienza University of Rome

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.^[1] 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.