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Gini Index, 2021 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2021; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2021 compilation covers 82 countries. Colombia is highest, at 55.12; Slovakia is lowest, at 24.11. The middle country reads 34.04. Against the 2020 compilation, 59 values changed (29 up, 30 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2021

HighestColombia

55.12

LowestSlovakia

24.11

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, 2021 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 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2021 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2021 reading55.12income2021
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2021 reading52.85income2021
3PanamaPANCentral America · 2021 reading50.86income2021
4KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2021 reading49.38income2021
5Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2021 reading48.68income2021
6EcuadorECUSouth America · 2021 reading45.80income2021
7TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2021 reading44.36income2021
8Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2021 reading43.03consumption2021
9ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2021 reading42.91income2021
10ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2021 reading42.45income2021
11CameroonCMRMiddle Africa42.18consumption2021.67
12BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2021 reading40.91income2021
13UruguayURYSouth America · 2021 reading40.78income2021
14PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading40.68income2021
15MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia40.67income2021.46
16PeruPERSouth America · 2021 reading40.12income2021
17JamaicaJAMCaribbean · 2021 reading39.87consumption2021
18United StatesUSANorthern America · 2021 reading39.71income2021
=19BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2021 reading39.01income2021
=19El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2021 reading39.01income2021
21KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2021 reading38.70consumption2021
22Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2021 reading38.53income2021
23IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2021 reading37.89income2021
24TogoTGOWestern Africa37.86consumption2021.63
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa37.39consumption2021.67

02In Gini Index, 2021 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Colombia55.12
  2. 2Brazil52.85
  3. 3Panama50.86
  4. 4Kosovo49.38
  5. 5Costa Rica48.68

Lowest

  1. 82Slovakia24.11
  2. 81Slovenia24.28
  3. 80Moldova25.73
  4. 79Netherlands25.74
  5. 78Czechia26.20

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 34.04. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 compilation

What changed between the 2020 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −12countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 59 in both
  • 29 · 30rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− Vietnam

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 2021, from 2021 to 2021.

  • 79 distinct values among 82

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 39.01. 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 82 countries has every column.

05The files

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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

    82 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-2021-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 (2021). Gini Index, 2021 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2021

0622 held

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2021 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2021 compilation?

Colombia, at 55.12, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2021 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2021 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, 2021 compilation the newest?

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

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