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Topic 14 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Equatorial Guinea: Poverty & Inequality
How is a country’s income shared, and how many live below a line?
Equatorial Guinea is placed 123rd of 159 countries on poverty & inequality in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 3 key statistics. Readings behind it: Gini Index 38.54 (2023); Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day 1.81 (2023).
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Poverty & Inequality
123rd
of 159 countries placed
Placed from 3 of 3 key statistics
01The evidence
The 3 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Equatorial Guinea on poverty & inequality — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used — or, for a survey-based key, each country’s latest reading; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 3
Gini Index
World Bank Group
Latest reading per country, 2013–2023 · Equatorial Guinea’s is from 2022 · CC BY 4.0
38.54
Gini index (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality)
Lower is better
Equatorial Guinea: 38.54. Across the 159 countries at their latest reading, values run from 23 (India) to 59.07 (Namibia); the world median is 33.72.
- World median
- 33.72
- Best in Middle Africa
- 37.36 Chad
- Land neighbours
- Cameroon 42.18 · Gabon 38.02
Key 2 of 3
Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day
World Bank Group
Latest reading per country, 2013–2023 · Equatorial Guinea’s is from 2022 · CC BY 4.0
1.81
Poverty gap at $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)
Lower is better
Equatorial Guinea: 1.81. Across the 159 countries at their latest reading, values run from 0 (Czechia) to 48.69 (DR Congo); the world median is 0.345.
- World median
- 0.345
- Best in Middle Africa
- 1 Gabon
- Land neighbours
- Cameroon 8.15 · Gabon 1
Key 3 of 3
Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 4.0
63.2
Share of the population unable to afford a healthy diet (%)
Lower is better
Equatorial Guinea: 63.2. Across the 145 countries in this edition, values run from 0.6 (Belarus) to 93.9 (South Sudan); the world median is 26.4.
- World median
- 26.4
- Best in Middle Africa
- 39.3 Gabon
- Land neighbours
- Cameroon 55.3 · Gabon 39.3
02Over time
Which way Equatorial Guinea is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet
Share of the population unable to afford a healthy diet (%) · lower is better
Equatorial GuineaWorld median
Equatorial Guinea rose from 57 in 2017 to 63.2 in 2025; the world median went from 32.4 to 26.4.
Every year’s figures
Year Equatorial Guinea World median 2025 63.2 26.40 2024 61.9 27.10 2023 60.0 27.15 2022 60.7 27.90 2021 61.1 29.65 2020 61.2 31.80 2019 56.8 29.05 2018 56.9 29.85 2017 57.0 32.40
03In context
Equatorial Guinea beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 159 countries on poverty & inequality, never a place within the region.
Equatorial Guinea and the countries it borders
Standing among all 159; the key columns are the publishers’ own values.
| Country | Standing | Gini IndexGini index (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality) | Poverty Gap at $3.00 a DayPoverty gap at $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%) | Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy DietShare of the population unable to afford a healthy diet (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gabon | 102nd | 38.02 | 1 | 39.3 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 123rd | 38.54 | 1.81 | 63.2 |
 Cameroon | =138th | 42.18 | 8.15 | 55.3 |
“—”: no published reading in that edition. What a standing is
Across Middle Africa
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 159.
Placed either side on poverty & inequality
The countries immediately above and below Equatorial Guinea in the topic’s list.
Liberia=119th
Kosovo121st
Mali122nd- Equatorial Guinea123rd
Sierra Leone124th
Niger=125th
São Tomé and Príncipe=125th
04Context, no vote
Where Equatorial Guinea is ahead of the world, and behind
7 more statistics filed under poverty & inequality, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Behind the world median5
Statistics on which Equatorial Guinea does worse than the middle country measured.
Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP)World Bank Group · 2021 · world median 12,80011,58012,800No real change since 2017
Equatorial Guinea: 11,580 · world median 12,800 · Actual individual consumption per capita (PPP, current international $). World Bank Group, 2021 edition, data for 2021.
Published values in that edition run from 688.7 to 52,654; higher is better.
Position 91st of 173 · derived.
Multidimensional Poverty MeasureWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 4.25219.964.252No earlier reading
Equatorial Guinea: 19.96 · world median 4.252 · Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio (%). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 87.96; lower is better.
Position 49th of 157 · derived, 1st = worst.
Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up EstimatesWorld Bank Group · 2024 · world median 2.19.52.1▼ Worsened since 2014
Equatorial Guinea: 9.5 · world median 2.1 · Population below $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP, World Bank line-up estimate (%). World Bank Group, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 89.54; lower is better.
Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary CompletionUIS · 2024 · world median 0.5290.2140.529No earlier reading
Equatorial Guinea: 0.214 · world median 0.529 · Adjusted wealth parity index, lower secondary completion (poorest vs richest fifth; 1 = parity). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.032 to 1.022; higher is better.
Exclusion by Socio-Economic GroupV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2023 · world median 0.4130.7060.413▲ Improved since 2013
Equatorial Guinea: 0.706 · world median 0.413 · Exclusion by socio-economic group index (0–1; higher = more exclusion). V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.014 to 0.969; lower is better.
Position 31st of 174 · derived, 1st = worst.
No better end2
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Poverty Headcount at National Poverty LinesWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 21.850.721.8No earlier reading
Equatorial Guinea: 50.7 · world median 21.8 · Population below the national poverty line (%). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 82.3.
Cost of a Healthy DietFAO · 2025 · world median 4.554.884.55Moved since 2017
Equatorial Guinea: 4.88 · world median 4.55 · Cost of the cheapest locally available healthy diet, PPP dollars per person per day. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 2.66 to 8.27.
No current reading for Equatorial Guinea
Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits, Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Spending, Coefficient of Human Inequality, Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption, Gini Index (last 2022), Gini Index of Disposable Income (SWIID) (last 2022), Gini Index of Monthly Earnings (last 2023), Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, Income Share Held by Lowest 20% (last 2022), Income Share Held by Richest 10% (last 2022), Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, Intergenerational Persistence in Education, Low Pay Rate (last 2023), Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person (last 2022), Palma Ratio (last 2022), Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day (last 2022), Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day (last 2022), Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day (last 2022), Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day (last 2022), Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day (last 2022), Prevalence of Moderate or Severe Food Insecurity, Prosperity Gap (last 2022), Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months, Societal Poverty Rate (last 2022) and Working Poverty Rate. Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
“Position · derived” is this site’s ordering of the published values, 1st = best unless the row says otherwise; the publisher ranks no country on it. Rank, position and standing
05Country Index 2026
Poverty & Inequality among Equatorial Guinea’s 15 topics
Poverty & Inequality is Equatorial Guinea’s 6th best-placed topic of 15. Strongest first, each marker at its share of that topic’s field.
- Environment & Sustainability33rd of 1862/4 keys
- Risk & Resilience85th of 1933/4 keys
- Mobility & Trade115th of 1772/4 keys
- Energy122nd of 1652/3 keys
- Work & Labour138th of 1824/4 keys
- Poverty & Inequality123rd of 1593/3 keys
- Peace & Securityjoint 137th of 1774/4 keys
- Development & Human Capital156th of 1963/3 keys
- Digital & Technologyjoint 160th of 1984/4 keys
- Economy & Innovation153rd of 1763/4 keys
- Gender & Equality166th of 1833/4 keys
- Democracy & Civil Liberties188th of 1984/4 keys
- Health & Wellbeingjoint 192nd of 2002/4 keys
- Education & Knowledge196th of 1983/4 keys
- Governance & Institutions193rd of 1944/4 keys
No standing on Food & Agriculture: too few of those topics’ key statistics are published for this country.
06The top of the list
Who leads on poverty & inequality
The three countries placed highest of 159, and the leaders Equatorial Guinea can most readily be measured against.
1
BelarusEastern Europe
1st of 159 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: zedlik , cropped by Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2
SloveniaSouthern Europe
2nd of 159 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: Z.K. derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY 3.0, greyscale
=3
UkraineEastern Europe
Joint 3rd of 159 · 2 of 3 keys
Photo: uploaded by Chern038 · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Africa
Tunisia43rd3/3 keysHighest in Middle Africa
Gabon102nd3/3 keysThis page
Equatorial Guinea123rd3/3 keys
Positions out of 159 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Questions
Equatorial Guinea on poverty & inequality: questions answered
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
How does Equatorial Guinea rank on poverty & inequality?
Equatorial Guinea is placed 123rd of 159 countries on Poverty & Inequality in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 3 key statistics (Gini Index, Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day and Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest Gini Index figure for Equatorial Guinea?
38.54 in 2023 (gini index (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 33.72.
What is the latest Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day figure for Equatorial Guinea?
1.81 in 2023 (poverty gap at $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 0.345.
How does Equatorial Guinea compare with Cameroon on poverty & inequality?
Cameroon is placed joint 138th of 159, and Equatorial Guinea 123rd. Gini Index: Cameroon 42.18, Equatorial Guinea 38.54; Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day: Cameroon 8.15, Equatorial Guinea 1.81; Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet: Cameroon 55.3, Equatorial Guinea 63.2.
How have Equatorial Guinea’s poverty & inequality figures changed?
Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet rose from 57 in 2017 to 63.2 in 2025.
Which poverty & inequality statistics are missing for Equatorial Guinea?
No current reading is published for Equatorial Guinea on Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits, Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Spending, Coefficient of Human Inequality, Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption, Gini Index, Gini Index of Disposable Income (SWIID), Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, Income Share Held by Richest 10%, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, Intergenerational Persistence in Education, Low Pay Rate, Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, Palma Ratio, Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, Prevalence of Moderate or Severe Food Insecurity, Prosperity Gap, Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months, Societal Poverty Rate and Working Poverty Rate. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
08Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
These figures come from household surveys, which most countries run every few years rather than every year. So the subject's standing is read from each country's most recent survey of the last decade, with the year of every reading shown, rather than from one year in which only a minority of countries were surveyed. Two readings decide it — how unequally income is shared and how deep extreme poverty runs — because the other poverty and inequality measures here largely repeat one of those two or repeat average income, which already counts under Economy and Development. Countries with no survey in the last decade have no standing here. What work pays is under Work & Labour; wealth, as opposed to income, has no global source this site is permitted to republish.
How the Poverty & Inequality standing is decided
A standing is this site’s ordering, named with its edition — never a publisher’s rank. 3 key statistics vote, one vote each; every country’s published value becomes a place within that key’s own field, the places are averaged, and the average is never published. A country needs 2 of the 3 keys to be placed.
The poverty & inequality method, step by stepHow every standing on this site is built
The key statistics and their licences
- Gini Index — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CC BY 4.0
The other 7 statistics on this page come from 4 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
Equatorial Guinea’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Equatorial Guinea (banner) — Mehlauge, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Belarus — zedlik , cropped by Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Slovenia — Z.K. derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY 3.0
- Ukraine — uploaded by Chern038, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Equatorial Guinea: Poverty & Inequality — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/equatorial-guinea/poverty