Measuring absolute levels of poverty is not the end of the story; diversity of poverty in a population, in other words the gap between the haves and have-nots, is an important component of well-being. This is usually expressed as the Gini coefficient (McKay 2005), which has values between 0 and 1, with 0 corresponding to the unattainable perfect equality (Denmark has a value of 0.232) and 1 corresponding to complete inequality, i.e. one household has all the wealth and all the other households have none (Namibia is high on the list at 0.707). In contrast to income, Gini coefficients have been deteriorating in the majority of countries, as the incomes of rich people grow faster than those of the poor both within and across countries (ILO 2008). Keywords: livestock, global poverty, poverty reduction, disease impact.