Gini Index, 2003 compilation

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Gini Index, 2003 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Positionderived	Country	Gini index (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality)	Survey measures	Survey year
1	NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	63.32	consumption	2003.67
2	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2003 reading	58.08	income	2003
3	BrazilBRASouth America · 2003 reading	57.55	income	2003
4	PanamaPANCentral America · 2003 reading	55.65	income	2003
5	ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2003 reading	54.94	income	2003
6	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2003 reading	53.57	income	2003
7	EcuadorECUSouth America · 2003 reading	53.51	income	2003
8	PeruPERSouth America · 2003 reading	53.08	income	2003
9	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2003 reading	52.12	income	2003
10	ChileCHLSouth America · 2003 reading	51.48	income	2003
11	ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2003 reading	50.99	income	2003
12	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2003 reading	50.43	income	2003
13	Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2003 reading	49.30	income	2003
14	VenezuelaVENSouth America · 2003 reading	47.91	income	2003
15	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	47.32	consumption	2003.29
16	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2003 reading	46.58	income	2003
17	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia · 2003 reading	46.42	income	2003
18	NepalNPLSouthern Asia	43.77	consumption	2003.25
19	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2003 reading	43.25	consumption	2003
20	TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2003 reading	42.18	consumption	2003
21	BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2003 reading	40.90	consumption	2003
22	United StatesUSANorthern America · 2003 reading	40.77	income	2003
23	IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2003 reading	40.72	income	2003
24	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	40.17	consumption	2003.25
25	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	40.06	consumption	2003.67

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 35.46. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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+ Australia+ Austria+ Belgium+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bulgaria+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Denmark+ Ecuador+ Spain+ Finland+ Gambia+ Iceland+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Nigeria+ Norway+ Nepal+ Philippines+ Portugal+ Sierra Leone+ Syria+ Chad+ Tajikistan+ Kosovo− Albania− Bolivia− Botswana− Switzerland− China− Côte d’Ivoire− Czechia− Djibouti− Fiji− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Jordan− Laos− Sri Lanka− Lesotho− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Thailand− Uganda− Vietnam− Samoa− Zambia

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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