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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2019 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2019; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2019 compilation covers 79 countries. Slovenia is highest, at 10.14; Brazil is lowest, at 3.10. The middle country reads 7.33. Against the 2018 compilation, 66 values changed (39 up, 27 down), 12 countries joined, 27 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2019

HighestSlovenia

10.14

LowestBrazil

3.10

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%, 2019 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 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2019 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2019 reading10.14income2019
2CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2019 reading10.11income2019
3BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2019 reading10.05consumption2019
4MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2019 reading9.96consumption2019
5KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2019 reading9.82consumption2019
6UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2019 reading9.67consumption2019
7KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2019 reading9.59consumption2019
8SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2019 reading9.52income2019
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2019 reading9.50income2019
10KiribatiKIRMicronesia9.47consumption2019.27
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2019 reading9.36income2019
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2019 reading9.25income2019
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2019 reading9.02income2019
14EgyptEGYNorthern Africa8.99consumption2019.43
15ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2019 reading8.94consumption2019
16MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia8.88consumption2019.6
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2019 reading8.80income2019
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2019 reading8.79income2019
19PolandPOLEastern Europe · 2019 reading8.62income2019
20NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2019 reading8.59income2019
=21AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe · 2019 reading8.52consumption2019
=21CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2019 reading8.52income2019
23FijiFJIMelanesia8.38consumption2019.15
24TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2019 reading8.31income2019
25MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2019 reading8.15income2019

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2019 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Slovenia10.14
  2. 2Czechia10.11
  3. 3Belarus10.05
  4. 4Moldova9.96
  5. 5Kazakhstan9.82

Lowest

  1. 79Brazil3.10
  2. 78Colombia3.23
  3. 77Honduras3.58
  4. 76Panama3.59
  5. 75Kosovo4.31

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.33. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since the 2018 compilation

What changed between the 2018 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −27countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 67 in both
  • 39 · 27rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− Angola− United Arab Emirates− Australia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Grenada− Jamaica− Laos− Mexico− Mali− Mongolia− Malaysia− Niger− Nigeria− Pakistan− Philippines− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Seychelles− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− Vietnam

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 2019, from 2019 to 2019.

  • 77 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 8.52. 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 79 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.

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 (2019). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2019 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2019

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2019 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2019 compilation?

Slovenia, at 10.14, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2019 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2019 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%, 2019 compilation the newest?

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

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