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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2010 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2010; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2010 compilation covers 87 countries. Ukraine is highest, at 10.21; South Africa is lowest, at 2.71. The middle country reads 7.26. Against the 2009 compilation, 62 values changed (33 up, 29 down), 25 countries joined, 21 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2010

HighestUkraine

10.21

LowestSouth Africa

2.71

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2010 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 87 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2010 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2010 reading10.21consumption2010
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia9.86consumption2010.5
3SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2010 reading9.69income2010
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2010 reading9.55income2010
5KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2010 reading9.54consumption2010
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2010 reading9.47income2010
7EgyptEGYNorthern Africa9.40consumption2010.49
8CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2010 reading9.37income2010
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2010 reading9.30income2010
10FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2010 reading9.19income2010
11ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2010 reading9.11consumption2010
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2010 reading8.96income2010
13BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2010 reading8.85consumption2010
14BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2010 reading8.81consumption2010
=15KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2010 reading8.66consumption2010
=15MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2010 reading8.66consumption2010
17SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2010 reading8.65consumption2010
=18CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2010 reading8.60income2010
=18SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2010 reading8.60income2010
20BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2010 reading8.55income2010
21SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2010 reading8.51income2010
22MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2010 reading8.44income2010
23GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2010 reading8.42income2010
24São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2010 reading8.38consumption2010
25NepalNPLSouthern Asia8.32consumption2010.17

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2010 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Ukraine10.21
  2. 2Pakistan9.86
  3. 3Slovenia9.69
  4. 4Iceland9.55
  5. 5Kazakhstan9.54

Lowest

  1. 87South Africa2.71
  2. 86Honduras3.12
  3. 84Panamashared3.29
  4. 84Colombiashared3.29
  5. 83Paraguay3.79

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.26. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032009 → 2010

Since the 2009 compilation

What changed between the 2009 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +25 / −21countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 62 in both
  • 33 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ China+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jordan+ South Korea+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Tunisia+ Tuvalu+ Taiwan+ Vietnam+ Vanuatu+ South Africa+ Zambia− Burkina Faso− Bolivia− Brazil− Botswana− Chile− India− Iran− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mali− Namibia− Nicaragua− Philippines− Papua New Guinea− Sudan− South Sudan− Eswatini− Syria− Tajikistan− Tonga− Uganda

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 2010, from 2010 to 2010.

  • 81 distinct values among 87

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 8.66. 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 87 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 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2010). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2010 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2010

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2010 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2010 compilation?

Ukraine, at 10.21, of the 87 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2010 compilation cover?

87.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2010 compilation?

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

Is Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2010 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2023 compilation.

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