Gini Index, 2016 compilation

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Gini Index, 2016 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Positionderived	Country	Gini index (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality)	Survey measures	Survey year
1	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	54.58	consumption	2016.17
2	BrazilBRASouth America · 2016 reading	53.36	income	2016
3	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2016 reading	51.72	income	2016
4	PanamaPANCentral America · 2016 reading	50.41	income	2016
5	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2016 reading	49.80	income	2016
6	Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2016 reading	48.70	income	2016
7	ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2016 reading	47.90	income	2016
8	MexicoMEXCentral America · 2016 reading	46.91	income	2016
9	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2016 reading	45.72	income	2016
10	BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2016 reading	45.24	income	2016
11	EcuadorECUSouth America · 2016 reading	45.02	income	2016
12	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	44.69	consumption	2016.31
13	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	44.05	consumption	2016.5
14	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	43.71	consumption	2016.77
15	PeruPERSouth America · 2016 reading	43.64	income	2016
16	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	43.51	consumption	2016.75
17	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	42.75	consumption	2016.5
18	ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2016 reading	42.35	income	2016
19	TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2016 reading	41.87	consumption	2016
20	United StatesUSANorthern America · 2016 reading	41.33	income	2016
21	BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2016 reading	40.59	income	2016
22	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2016 reading	39.98	income	2016
23	UruguayURYSouth America · 2016 reading	39.70	income	2016
24	Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2016 reading	39.35	consumption	2016
25	IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2016 reading	39.01	income	2016

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 34.47. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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+ Argentina+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ Ghana+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Vietnam− 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

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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