Gini Index, 2015 compilation

Showing 25 of 87 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2015 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	59.07	consumption	2015.27
2	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2015 reading	55.84	consumption	2015
3	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	54.91	consumption	2015.85
4	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2015 reading	52.02	income	2015
5	BrazilBRASouth America · 2015 reading	51.94	income	2015
6	PanamaPANCentral America · 2015 reading	50.81	income	2015
7	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2015 reading	49.25	income	2015
8	Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2015 reading	48.37	income	2015
9	ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2015 reading	47.61	income	2015
10	BeninBENWestern Africa · 2015 reading	47.60	consumption	2015
11	BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2015 reading	46.73	income	2015
12	EcuadorECUSouth America · 2015 reading	45.95	income	2015
13	ChileCHLSouth America · 2015 reading	45.34	income	2015
14	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2015 reading	45.18	income	2015
15	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading	44.55	income	2015
16	Saint LuciaLCACaribbean	43.69	consumption	2015.78
17	PeruPERSouth America · 2015 reading	43.36	income	2015
18	TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2015 reading	43.03	consumption	2015
19	TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2015 reading	42.85	consumption	2015
20	Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa · 2015 reading	42.38	consumption	2015
21	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2015 reading	41.47	consumption	2015
22	United StatesUSANorthern America · 2015 reading	41.46	income	2015
23	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	41.07	income	2015.88
24	KenyaKENEastern Africa	40.77	consumption	2015.67
25	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2015 reading	40.55	income	2015

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 35.52. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +22 / −19countries joined / left
• 65values changed, of 65 in both
• 28 · 37rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Benin+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Botswana+ Chile+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cabo Verde+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Saint Lucia+ Myanmar+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Zambia− Argentina− Australia− Burkina Faso− Cameroon− Comoros− Guatemala− South Korea− Liberia− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Niger− Nicaragua− Sudan− Timor-Leste− Vietnam− Yemen− South Africa

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.

• .csv

  For a spreadsheet or code

  87 rows · 4.1 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

  Download gini-index-2015-nations-inquiry.csv
• ↗

  The publisher’s original

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

  pip

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