Latest available · compiled 2002

Gini Index, 2002 compilation

Name: Gini Index, 2002 compilation
Creator: World Bank Group
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Each country’s newest reading as of 2002; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2002 compilation covers 68 countries. Botswana is highest, at 61.54; Azerbaijan is lowest, at 25.28. The middle country reads 37.14.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2002

HighestBotswana

61.54

LowestAzerbaijan

25.28

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

68countries
1measure
2002compiled · readings from many years
68distinct values2 decimals, as published
Sep 26, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gini Index, 2002 compilation, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Gini Index, 2002 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	61.54	consumption	2002.53
2	Bolivia`BOL`South America · 2002 reading	59.27	income	2002
3	Brazil`BRA`South America · 2002 reading	58.11	income	2002
4	Paraguay`PRY`South America · 2002 reading	57.27	income	2002
5	Panama`PAN`Central America · 2002 reading	56.09	income	2002
6	Colombia`COL`South America · 2002 reading	56.01	income	2002
7	Honduras`HND`Central America · 2002 reading	55.71	income	2002
8	Argentina`ARG`South America · 2002 reading	53.76	income	2002
9	Peru`PER`South America · 2002 reading	53.56	income	2002
10	El Salvador`SLV`Central America · 2002 reading	51.85	income	2002
11	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America · 2002 reading	51.81	income	2002
12	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	51.19	consumption	2002.75
13	Mexico`MEX`Central America · 2002 reading	50.58	income	2002
14	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean · 2002 reading	49.67	income	2002
15	Venezuela`VEN`South America · 2002 reading	48.88	income	2002
16	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean · 2002 reading	48.32	consumption	2002
17	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	46.95	consumption	2002.5
18	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	45.17	consumption	2002.36
19	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	43.00	consumption	2002.25
20	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	42.06	consumption	2002.83
21	China`CHN`Eastern Asia · 2002 reading	41.96	consumption	2002
22	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia · 2002 reading	41.94	consumption	2002
23	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia · 2002 reading	41.40	consumption	2002
24	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa · 2002 reading	41.34	consumption	2002
25	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	41.31	consumption	2002.5
26	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia · 2002 reading	40.74	consumption	2002
27	United States`USA`Northern America · 2002 reading	40.35	income	2002
28	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia · 2002 reading	40.17	consumption	2002
29	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa · 2002 reading	40.00	consumption	2002
30	Israel`ISR`Western Asia · 2002 reading	39.56	income	2002
31	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	38.51	consumption	2002
32	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	38.10	consumption	2002.5
33	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	37.28	consumption	2002
34	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia · 2002 reading	37.25	consumption	2002
35	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia · 2002 reading	37.03	consumption	2002
36	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	36.95	consumption	2002.5
37	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	35.85	consumption	2002
38	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	35.79	consumption	2002
39	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa · 2002 reading	35.57	consumption	2002
40	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	35.52	income	2002
41	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	35.15	income	2002
42	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	35.09	consumption	2002
43	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia · 2002 reading	34.81	consumption	2002
44	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia · 2002 reading	34.78	consumption	2002
45	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	34.70	income	2002
46	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	34.05	consumption	2002
47	Canada`CAN`Northern America · 2002 reading	33.56	income	2002
48	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia · 2002 reading	33.03	consumption	2002
49	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	32.89	consumption	2002.15
50	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	32.74	consumption	2002
51	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	32.62	consumption	2002.25
52	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	32.29	income	2002
53	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	31.92	consumption	2002
54	France`FRA`Western Europe · 2002 reading	31.78	income	2002
55	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	31.74	consumption	2002
56	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe · 2002 reading	31.69	income	2002
57	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe · 2002 reading	31.07	income	2002
58	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	30.34	consumption	2002
59	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia · 2002 reading	30.30	consumption	2002
60	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	30.23	consumption	2002
61	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia · 2002 reading	30.16	consumption	2002
62	Germany`DEU`Western Europe · 2002 reading	29.88	income	2002
63	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	29.12	consumption	2002
64	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	29.05	consumption	2002
65	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	26.84	consumption	2002
66	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	26.56	income	2002
67	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	26.22	income	2002
68	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia · 2002 reading	25.28	consumption	2002

02In Gini Index, 2002 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Botswana61.54
2Bolivia59.27
3Brazil58.11
4Paraguay57.27
5Panama56.09

Lowest

68Azerbaijan25.28
67Sweden26.22
66Czechia26.56
65Hungary26.84
64Ukraine29.05

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 37.14. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

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What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

Readings from many years
Each country’s newest reading as of 2002, from 2002 to 2002.
The position is ours
World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 68 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2002). Gini Index, 2002 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2002

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