The Pareto distribution is good for approximating income distributions or population sizes.
The pdf is given by:
\begin{equation*}
f(x)=\frac{k\theta^{k}}{x^{k+1}},x\ge\theta
\end{equation*}
and 0 otherwise.
It is the source of the 80-20 rule. Note that for income, it doesn’t work well for low incomes (as someone’s net income can be negative).