id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-341132-arhpqgl6 Gangemi, Sebastiano Rich at risk: socio-economic drivers of COVID-19 pandemic spread 2020-07-01 .txt text/plain 1649 72 41 While proper treatments are being developed, in-depth studies concerning its way of diffusion are necessary, in order to understand how the virus is actually spreading, through the investigation on some socio-economic indicators for the various countries in the world, retrieved through open-access data publicly available. As such, in order to fill in this gap, therefore to understand which of these discriminants could represent stronger drivers for the COVID-19 pandemic spread, we retrieved basic data on the open access website Wikipedia concerning socio-economic indicators of any country in the world, including their Population, Density, mean age, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Nominal GDP (both Per Capita), the Gini Coefficient of wealth distribution (an index of overall income inequality, ranging from 0, where everyone has the same income, to 1, where inequality is maximal), the Human Development Index (HDI, a composite index of ./cache/cord-341132-arhpqgl6.txt ./txt/cord-341132-arhpqgl6.txt