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Gini Index, 2008 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2008; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2008 compilation covers 79 countries. South Africa is highest, at 62.52; Slovenia is lowest, at 23.72. The middle country reads 34.60. Against the 2007 compilation, 57 values changed (20 up, 37 down), 21 countries joined, 15 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2008

HighestSouth Africa

62.52

LowestSlovenia

23.72

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gini Index, 2008 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.

Showing 25 of 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2008 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa62.52consumption2008.67
2Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2008 reading56.20consumption2008
3HondurasHNDCentral America · 2008 reading55.49income2008
4ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2008 reading54.95income2008
5BrazilBRASouth America · 2008 reading54.04income2008
6PanamaPANCentral America · 2008 reading52.69income2008
7MexicoMEXCentral America · 2008 reading50.84income2008
8BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2008 reading50.81income2008
9ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2008 reading50.70income2008
10EcuadorECUSouth America · 2008 reading49.79income2008
11Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2008 reading48.64income2008
12Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2008 reading48.11income2008
13PeruPERSouth America · 2008 reading47.49income2008
14El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2008 reading46.89income2008
15North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2008 reading46.14consumption2008
=16MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia45.48income2008.25
=16MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa45.48consumption2008.67
18UruguayURYSouth America · 2008 reading45.08income2008
19ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2008 reading44.99income2008
20Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2008 reading43.18consumption2008
21ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2008 reading42.93consumption2008
22AngolaAGOMiddle Africa42.72consumption2008.5
23SamoaWSMPolynesia · 2008 reading42.05consumption2008
24IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2008 reading41.65income2008
25RussiaRUSEastern Europe · 2008 reading41.57consumption2008

02In Gini Index, 2008 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1South Africa62.52
  2. 2Central African Republic56.20
  3. 3Honduras55.49
  4. 4Colombia54.95
  5. 5Brazil54.04

Lowest

  1. 79Slovenia23.72
  2. 78Denmark25.25
  3. 77Slovakia26.02
  4. 76Czechia26.28
  5. 75Ukraine26.64

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 34.60. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since the 2007 compilation

What changed between the 2007 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −15countries joined / left
  • 57values changed, of 58 in both
  • 20 · 37rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Albania+ Australia+ Central African Republic+ China+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Colombia+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Croatia+ Jordan+ Japan+ South Korea+ Mexico+ North Macedonia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malaysia+ Vietnam+ Samoa+ South Africa− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bhutan− Cameroon− Cabo Verde− Guinea− Laos− Liberia− Mongolia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Taiwan− Tanzania

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.

04Caveats

Read before you use

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 2008, from 2008 to 2008.

  • 78 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 45.48. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 79 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full
  • .csv

    For a spreadsheet or code

    79 rows · 3.8 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

    Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.

    Download gini-index-2008-nations-inquiry.csv
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    The publisher’s original

    World Bank Group’s own file, on its own site.

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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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2008). Gini Index, 2008 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2008

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2008 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2008 compilation?

South Africa, at 62.52, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2008 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2008 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Gini Index, 2008 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Gini Index, 2023 compilation.

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