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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2004 compilation

Name: Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2004 compilation
Creator: World Bank Group
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Each country’s newest reading as of 2004; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2004 compilation covers 75 countries. Azerbaijan is highest, at 10.68; Honduras is lowest, at 2.36. The middle country reads 7.29. Against the 2003 compilation, 52 values changed (27 up, 25 down), 22 countries joined, 16 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2004

HighestAzerbaijan

10.68

LowestHonduras

2.36

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

75countries
1measure
2004compiled · readings from many years
75distinct values2 decimals, as published
Sep 26, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2004 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.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2004 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia · 2004 reading	10.68	consumption	2004
2	India`IND`Southern Asia	10.05	consumption	2004.5
3	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	9.94	income	2004
4	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	9.82	income	2004
5	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	9.43	income	2004
6	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	9.41	income	2004
7	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	9.38	consumption	2004.5
8	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	9.37	consumption	2004
9	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	9.35	income	2004
10	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	9.19	consumption	2004.5
11	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	9.05	income	2004
12	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia · 2004 reading	9.03	consumption	2004
13	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	8.98	consumption	2004.49
14	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	8.82	income	2004
15	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	8.79	consumption	2004
16	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia · 2004 reading	8.78	income	2004
17	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	8.68	income	2004
18	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	8.64	consumption	2004
19	Austria`AUT`Western Europe · 2004 reading	8.55	income	2004
20	Germany`DEU`Western Europe · 2004 reading	8.54	income	2004
21	France`FRA`Western Europe · 2004 reading	8.45	income	2004
22	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe · 2004 reading	8.44	income	2004
23	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe · 2004 reading	8.40	income	2004
24	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	8.33	income	2004
25	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe · 2004 reading	8.32	income	2004
26	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	8.27	consumption	2004
27	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia · 2004 reading	8.20	consumption	2004
28	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe · 2004 reading	8.12	income	2004
29	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia · 2004 reading	7.78	consumption	2004
30	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand · 2004 reading	7.71	income	2004
31	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia · 2004 reading	7.67	consumption	2004
32	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia · 2004 reading	7.59	consumption	2004
33	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	7.57	income	2004
34	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia · 2004 reading	7.51	consumption	2004
35	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	7.40	consumption	2004
36	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	7.36	consumption	2004
37	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	7.30	income	2004
38	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	7.29	consumption	2004
39	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia · 2004 reading	7.16	consumption	2004
40	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	7.13	income	2004
41	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	7.05	income	2004
42	Canada`CAN`Northern America · 2004 reading	6.97	income	2004
43	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	6.93	consumption	2004.23
44	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	6.89	income	2004
45	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	6.85	income	2004
46	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	6.54	consumption	2004.55
47	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	6.46	income	2004
48	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	6.41	income	2004
49	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia · 2004 reading	6.25	consumption	2004
50	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	6.13	consumption	2004
51	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia · 2004 reading	6.11	consumption	2004
52	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	6.06	consumption	2004.89
53	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	5.97	consumption	2004
54	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	5.84	income	2004
55	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	5.69	income	2004
56	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia · 2004 reading	5.37	consumption	2004
57	United States`USA`Northern America · 2004 reading	5.32	income	2004
58	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean · 2004 reading	5.29	consumption	2004
59	Israel`ISR`Western Asia · 2004 reading	4.78	income	2004
60	Mexico`MEX`Central America · 2004 reading	4.05	income	2004
61	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa · 2004 reading	4.02	consumption	2004
62	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America · 2004 reading	3.98	income	2004
63	Paraguay`PRY`South America · 2004 reading	3.97	income	2004
64	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean · 2004 reading	3.89	income	2004
65	El Salvador`SLV`Central America · 2004 reading	3.74	income	2004
66	Peru`PER`South America · 2004 reading	3.70	income	2004
67	Argentina`ARG`South America · 2004 reading	3.58	income	2004
68	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	3.57	consumption	2004.67
69	Colombia`COL`South America · 2004 reading	3.55	income	2004
70	Venezuela`VEN`South America · 2004 reading	3.46	income	2004
71	Ecuador`ECU`South America · 2004 reading	3.23	income	2004
72	Bolivia`BOL`South America · 2004 reading	3.10	income	2004
73	Brazil`BRA`South America · 2004 reading	2.87	income	2004
74	Panama`PAN`Central America · 2004 reading	2.60	income	2004
75	Honduras`HND`Central America · 2004 reading	2.36	income	2004

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2004 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Azerbaijan10.68
2India10.05
3Denmark9.94
4Slovenia9.82
5Iceland9.43

Lowest

75Honduras2.36
74Panama2.60
73Brazil2.87
72Bolivia3.10
71Ecuador3.23

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.29. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since the 2003 compilation

What changed between the 2003 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+22 / −16countries joined / left
52values changed, of 53 in both
27 · 25rose · fell
1unchanged

Rose most

Slovenia8.17 → 9.82+1.65
Estonia6.16 → 7.13+0.97
El Salvador2.87 → 3.74+0.87
Belarus8.56 → 9.37+0.81
Kazakhstan7.52 → 8.20+0.68

Fell most

Kyrgyzstan9.28 → 7.67−1.61
Poland7.28 → 5.69−1.59
Lithuania7.24 → 5.84−1.40
Armenia8.67 → 7.59−1.08
Norway9.47 → 8.82−0.65

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina

+ Bolivia

+ Switzerland

+ DR Congo

+ Comoros

+ Cyprus

+ Czechia

+ Egypt

+ Ethiopia

+ Croatia

+ India

+ Jamaica

+ Mexico

+ Mauritania

+ Malawi

+ Netherlands

+ Pakistan

+ Palestine

+ Slovakia

+ Thailand

+ Vietnam

+ Zambia

− Benin

− Burkina Faso

− Bulgaria

− Bhutan

− Chile

− Gambia

− Malaysia

− Namibia

− Nigeria

− Nepal

− Philippines

− Sierra Leone

− Syria

− Chad

− Uzbekistan

− Kosovo

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

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The position is ours
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World Bank Group (2004). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2004 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2004

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