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Gini Index, 2014 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2014; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2014 compilation covers 84 countries. South Africa is highest, at 59.64; Ukraine is lowest, at 24.03. The middle country reads 34.79. Against the 2013 compilation, 65 values changed (21 up, 44 down), 19 countries joined, 13 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2014

HighestSouth Africa

59.64

LowestUkraine

24.03

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, 2014 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 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2014 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa59.64consumption2014.83
2MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa53.95consumption2014.44
3ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2014 reading53.55income2014
4BrazilBRASouth America · 2014 reading52.05income2014
5ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2014 reading50.70income2014
6PanamaPANCentral America · 2014 reading50.47income2014
7HondurasHNDCentral America · 2014 reading49.87income2014
8MexicoMEXCentral America · 2014 reading48.91income2014
9Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2014 reading48.63income2014
10GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2014 reading48.33income2014
11BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2014 reading47.83income2014
12CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2014 reading46.64consumption2014
13NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2014 reading46.16income2014
14ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2014 reading45.33consumption2014
15EcuadorECUSouth America · 2014 reading44.99income2014
16Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2014 reading44.28income2014
17PeruPERSouth America · 2014 reading43.14income2014
18ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2014 reading41.82income2014
19United StatesUSANorthern America · 2014 reading41.74income2014
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2014 reading41.56income2014
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2014 reading41.24consumption2014
22SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2014 reading40.44income2014
23UruguayURYSouth America · 2014 reading40.11income2014
24IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2014 reading39.76income2014
25ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2014 reading39.16consumption2014

02In Gini Index, 2014 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1South Africa59.64
  2. 2Mozambique53.95
  3. 3Colombia53.55
  4. 4Brazil52.05
  5. 5Paraguay50.70

Lowest

  1. 84Ukraine24.03
  2. 83Slovenia25.66
  3. 82Czechia25.92
  4. 81Slovakia26.10
  5. 80Norway26.75

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 34.79. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032013 → 2014

Since the 2013 compilation

What changed between the 2013 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +19 / −13countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 65 in both
  • 21 · 44rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Australia+ Burkina Faso+ Cameroon+ Comoros+ Guatemala+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Niger+ Nicaragua+ Sudan+ Timor-Leste+ Vietnam+ Yemen+ South Africa− United Arab Emirates− Burundi− Chile− Djibouti− Fiji− Micronesia− Morocco− Malaysia− Pakistan− Rwanda− Seychelles− Taiwan− Samoa

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 2014, from 2014 to 2014.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 84 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

    84 rows · 3.9 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download gini-index-2014-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 (2014). Gini Index, 2014 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2014

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2014 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2014 compilation?

South Africa, at 59.64, of the 84 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2014 compilation cover?

84.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2014 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, 2014 compilation the newest?

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

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