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Gini Index, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries. Colombia is highest, at 54.58; India is lowest, at 23.00. The middle country reads 33.72. Against the 2022 compilation, 51 values changed (25 up, 26 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestColombia

54.58

LowestIndia

23.00

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, 2023 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading54.58income2023
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2023 reading51.49income2023
3PanamaPANCentral America · 2023 reading48.88income2023
4HondurasHNDCentral America · 2023 reading46.83income2023
5Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2023 reading46.73income2023
6GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading45.21income2023
7EcuadorECUSouth America · 2023 reading44.58income2023
8ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading44.18income2023
9TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2023 reading43.68income2023
10ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2023 reading42.39income2023
11BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2023 reading42.05income2023
12United StatesUSANorthern America · 2023 reading41.82income2023
13UruguayURYSouth America · 2023 reading40.87income2023
14PeruPERSouth America · 2023 reading40.66income2023
15El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading39.80income2023
16BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2023 reading39.47income2023
17RwandaRWAEastern Africa39.36consumption2023.77
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading39.34income2023
19Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2023 reading38.40income2023
20UgandaUGAEastern Africa38.15consumption2023.17
21TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2023 reading38.03consumption2023
22PalestinePSEWestern Asia · 2023 reading36.38consumption2023
23IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading36.06consumption2023
24LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2023 reading35.96income2023
25IranIRNSouthern Asia35.88consumption2023.23

02In Gini Index, 2023 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Colombia54.58
  2. 2Brazil51.49
  3. 3Panama48.88
  4. 4Honduras46.83
  5. 5Costa Rica46.73

Lowest

  1. 60India23.00
  2. 59Slovakia23.82
  3. 58Slovenia24.68
  4. 57Kiribati24.74
  5. 56Czechia25.71

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 33.72. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 51 in both
  • 25 · 26rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− 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.

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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 60 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.

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

    Download gini-index-2023-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 (2023). Gini Index, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2023

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2023 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2023 compilation?

Colombia, at 54.58, of the 60 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2023 compilation cover?

60.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2023 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, 2023 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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