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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2022 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2022; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2022 compilation covers 73 countries. India is highest, at 10.36; Colombia is lowest, at 3.22. The middle country reads 7.08. Against the 2021 compilation, 56 values changed (28 up, 28 down), 17 countries joined, 26 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2022

HighestIndia

10.36

LowestColombia

3.22

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%, 2022 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 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2022 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1IndiaINDSouthern Asia10.36consumption2022.58
=2MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2022 reading10.24consumption2022
=2SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2022 reading10.24income2022
4KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2022 reading9.97consumption2022
5CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2022 reading9.75income2022
6BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2022 reading9.43income2022
7SyriaSYRWestern Asia · 2022 reading9.28consumption2022
8FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2022 reading9.27income2022
9ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2022 reading9.20consumption2022
10NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2022 reading9.10income2022
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2022 reading9.04income2022
12IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2022 reading8.88income2022
=13BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2022 reading8.80consumption2022
=13BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2022 reading8.80consumption2022
15NepalNPLSouthern Asia8.71consumption2022.5
16CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2022 reading8.67income2022
17PolandPOLEastern Europe · 2022 reading8.52income2022
18SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2022 reading8.43income2022
19MongoliaMNGEastern Asia · 2022 reading8.19consumption2022
20CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe · 2022 reading7.85income2022
21IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2022 reading7.84consumption2022
22FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2022 reading7.78income2022
23AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2022 reading7.76income2022
24CanadaCANNorthern America · 2022 reading7.75income2022
=25EstoniaESTNorthern Europe · 2022 reading7.69income2022

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2022 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1India10.36
  2. 2Moldovashared10.24
  3. 2Sloveniashared10.24
  4. 4Kyrgyzstan9.97
  5. 5Czechia9.75

Lowest

  1. 73Colombia3.22
  2. 72Brazil3.61
  3. 71South Africa3.67
  4. 70Zambia3.85
  5. 69Kosovo4.46

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.08. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since the 2021 compilation

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

  • +17 / −26countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 56 in both
  • 28 · 28rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bangladesh+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Equatorial Guinea+ India+ Lebanon+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Suriname+ Syria+ Chad+ Vietnam+ South Africa+ Zambia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Central African Republic− Côte d’Ivoire− Cameroon− Egypt− Ethiopia− United Kingdom− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Kazakhstan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mali− Montenegro− Malaysia− Niger− Netherlands− Panama− Philippines− Senegal− Togo− Tonga− Tunisia− Taiwan

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 2022, from 2022 to 2022.

  • 69 distinct values among 73

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 10.24. 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 73 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 (2022). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2022 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2022

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2022 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2022 compilation?

India, at 10.36, of the 73 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2022 compilation cover?

73.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2022 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%, 2022 compilation the newest?

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

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