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Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018

2018, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018 covers 160 countries. Central African Republic is highest, at 45.6805; Czechia is lowest, at 4.8834. The middle country reads 18.9697. Against 2017, 159 values changed (37 up, 122 down), 1 country joined.

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Coefficient of Human Inequality · Data for 2018

HighestCentral African Republic

45.6805

LowestCzechia

4.8834

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018, as published. UNDP Human Development Report Office ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 160 countries · select a heading to sort

Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa45.6805
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa44.7583
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa44.3304
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa43.8857
5Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa43.7221
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa42.7734
7ComorosCOMEastern Africa41.6313
8MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa41.4616
9GuineaGINWestern Africa41.2308
10Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa40.7368
11HaitiHTICaribbean38.9989
12CameroonCMRMiddle Africa38.5562
13TogoTGOWestern Africa38.0973
14AngolaAGOMiddle Africa37.1043
15LiberiaLBRWestern Africa37.0352
16EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa37.0226
17GhanaGHAWestern Africa36.9172
18SenegalSENWestern Africa36.8406
19ZambiaZMBEastern Africa36.8341
20GambiaGMBWestern Africa36.5293
21NigerNERWestern Africa36.4196
22SudanSDNNorthern Africa36.0874
23Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa35.9652
24BurundiBDIEastern Africa35.6044
25EthiopiaETHEastern Africa35.2172

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Central African Republic45.6805
  2. 2Somalia44.7583
  3. 3South Sudan44.3304
  4. 4Chad43.8857
  5. 5Côte d’Ivoire43.7221

Lowest

  1. 160Czechia4.8834
  2. 159Slovenia4.9337
  3. 158Iceland5.2463
  4. 157Slovakia5.3373
  5. 156Finland5.6345

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 18.9697. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

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

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 159values changed, of 159 in both
  • 37 · 122rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Kiribati

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. 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

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2018.

  • The position is ours

    UNDP Human Development Report Office publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 160 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

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 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNDP Human Development Report Office (2018). Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/human-inequality/2018

0614 held

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07Questions

Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest coefficient of human inequality in Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018?

Central African Republic, at 45.6805, of the 160 countries in the file.

What year does Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018 cover?

160.

Where can I download Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2023.

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