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Gini Index, 2018 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2018; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2018 compilation covers 94 countries. Brazil is highest, at 53.89; Slovenia is lowest, at 24.63. The middle country reads 35.25. Against the 2017 compilation, 67 values changed (33 up, 34 down), 27 countries joined, 12 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2018

HighestBrazil

53.89

LowestSlovenia

24.63

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, 2018 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 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2018 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BrazilBRASouth America · 2018 reading53.89income2018
2ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2018 reading51.64income2018
3AngolaAGOMiddle Africa51.26consumption2018.17
4PanamaPANCentral America · 2018 reading49.21income2018
5HondurasHNDCentral America · 2018 reading48.93income2018
6Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2018 reading47.97income2018
7ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2018 reading45.96income2018
8MexicoMEXCentral America · 2018 reading45.95income2018
9EcuadorECUSouth America · 2018 reading45.44income2018
10KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2018 reading44.59income2018
11GrenadaGRDCaribbean43.82consumption2018.36
12Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2018 reading43.69income2018
13Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa43.02consumption2018.5
14BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2018 reading42.58income2018
15TogoTGOWestern Africa42.53consumption2018.43
16TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2018 reading42.44income2018
17PeruPERSouth America · 2018 reading42.37income2018
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2018 reading42.27income2018
19United StatesUSANorthern America · 2018 reading41.78income2018
20ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2018 reading41.72income2018
21BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2018 reading41.28income2018
22MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia41.18income2018.46
23TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa40.49consumption2017.92
24BelizeBLZCentral America39.95consumption2018.2
25UruguayURYSouth America · 2018 reading39.69income2018

02In Gini Index, 2018 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Brazil53.89
  2. 2Colombia51.64
  3. 3Angola51.26
  4. 4Panama49.21
  5. 5Honduras48.93

Lowest

  1. 94Slovenia24.63
  2. 93Slovakia24.97
  3. 92Czechia24.99
  4. 91Belarus25.24
  5. 90Moldova25.66

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 35.25. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since the 2017 compilation

What changed between the 2017 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +27 / −12countries joined / left
  • 67values changed, of 67 in both
  • 33 · 34rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ United Arab Emirates+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Bhutan− Chile− Djibouti− Egypt− Gabon− Hungary− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mauritius− Qatar− São Tomé and Príncipe− Zimbabwe

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 2018, from 2018 to 2018.

  • 91 distinct values among 94

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 36.41. 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 94 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
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    For a spreadsheet or code

    94 rows · 4.3 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download gini-index-2018-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 (2018). Gini Index, 2018 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2018

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2018 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2018 compilation?

Brazil, at 53.89, of the 94 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2018 compilation cover?

94.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2018 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, 2018 compilation the newest?

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

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