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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2021 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2021; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2021 compilation covers 82 countries. Slovenia is highest, at 10.23; Kosovo is lowest, at 1.87. The middle country reads 7.33. Against the 2020 compilation, 57 values changed (34 up, 23 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2021

HighestSlovenia

10.23

LowestKosovo

1.87

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%, 2021 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%, 2021 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2021 reading10.23income2021
2MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2021 reading10.08consumption2021
3KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2021 reading9.78consumption2021
4CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2021 reading9.74income2021
5EgyptEGYNorthern Africa9.69consumption2021.77
6KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2021 reading9.53consumption2021
7ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2021 reading9.43consumption2021
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2021 reading9.37income2021
9TongaTONPolynesia · 2021 reading9.34consumption2021
10FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2021 reading9.30income2021
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2021 reading9.20income2021
12BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2021 reading9.19income2021
13SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2021 reading9.14income2021
14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2021 reading8.99income2021
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2021 reading8.76income2021
16NigerNERWestern Africa8.74consumption2021.5
17PolandPOLEastern Europe · 2021 reading8.59income2021
18CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2021 reading8.56income2021
19TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2021 reading8.35income2021
20EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2021 reading8.33consumption2021
21MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2021 reading8.31income2021
22Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe · 2021 reading8.24consumption2021
23CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe · 2021 reading8.16income2021
24CanadaCANNorthern America · 2021 reading8.10income2021
25EstoniaESTNorthern Europe · 2021 reading8.07income2021

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2021 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Slovenia10.23
  2. 2Moldova10.08
  3. 3Kazakhstan9.78
  4. 4Czechia9.74
  5. 5Egypt9.69

Lowest

  1. 82Kosovo1.87
  2. 81Colombia3.13
  3. 80Brazil3.30
  4. 79Panama3.67
  5. 78Costa Rica4.32

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

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 compilation

What changed between the 2020 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −12countries joined / left
  • 57values changed, of 59 in both
  • 34 · 23rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− 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 2021, from 2021 to 2021.

  • 76 distinct values among 82

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 7.67. 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 82 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 (2021). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2021 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2021

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2021 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2021 compilation?

Slovenia, at 10.23, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2021 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2021 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%, 2021 compilation the newest?

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

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