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Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2022

2022, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2022 covers 169 countries. Central African Republic is highest, at 48.0079; Slovenia is lowest, at 5.0321. The middle country reads 17.2052. Against 2021, 169 values changed (41 up, 128 down), the same countries are covered.

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Coefficient of Human Inequality · Data for 2022

HighestCentral African Republic

48.0079

LowestSlovenia

5.0321

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, 2022, 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 169 countries · select a heading to sort

Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2022: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa48.0079
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa45.5506
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa41.6899
4Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa40.2845
5AngolaAGOMiddle Africa40.0494
6ComorosCOMEastern Africa39.8198
7ChadTCDMiddle Africa39.7851
8Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa39.7651
9Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa39.4952
10GuineaGINWestern Africa39.2349
11BeninBENWestern Africa38.6196
12MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa38.5919
13HaitiHTICaribbean38.4093
14CameroonCMRMiddle Africa37.7346
15NigerNERWestern Africa36.7827
16GambiaGMBWestern Africa36.6264
17TogoTGOWestern Africa36.3171
18LiberiaLBRWestern Africa36.1086
19ZambiaZMBEastern Africa36.0440
20GhanaGHAWestern Africa35.5396
21Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa35.5153
22SudanSDNNorthern Africa35.3613
23EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa35.2021
24SenegalSENWestern Africa34.9864
25BurundiBDIEastern Africa34.7374

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Central African Republic48.0079
  2. 2Somalia45.5506
  3. 3South Sudan41.6899
  4. 4Burkina Faso40.2845
  5. 5Angola40.0494

Lowest

  1. 169Slovenia5.0321
  2. 168Iceland5.0439
  3. 167Czechia5.1690
  4. 166Slovakia5.5510
  5. 165Denmark5.6112

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 17.2052. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 169values changed, of 169 in both
  • 41 · 128rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Oman15.9336 → 12.2805−3.6530
  • Bhutan33.3891 → 30.0974−3.2917
  • Mozambique40.3150 → 38.5919−1.7231
  • Kenya28.3056 → 26.8077−1.4979
  • Andorra9.7101 → 8.2220−1.4882

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 2022.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 169 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 (2022). Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/human-inequality/2022

0614 held

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07Questions

Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2022: questions and answers

Which country has the highest coefficient of human inequality in Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2022?

Central African Republic, at 48.0079, of the 169 countries in the file.

What year does Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2022 describe?

2022.

How many countries does Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2022 cover?

169.

Where can I download Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2022?

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, 2022 the newest?

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

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