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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries. India is highest, at 11.07; Colombia is lowest, at 3.24. The middle country reads 7.12. Against the 2022 compilation, 51 values changed (25 up, 26 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestIndia

11.07

LowestColombia

3.24

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%, 2023 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1IndiaINDSouthern Asia11.07consumption2023.58
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia10.19consumption2023.42
3SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2023 reading10.04income2023
4MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2023 reading9.90consumption2023
5KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2023 reading9.87consumption2023
6ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2023 reading9.54consumption2023
7CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2023 reading9.49income2023
8FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2023 reading9.19income2023
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2023 reading9.17income2023
=10BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2023 reading9.15income2023
=10NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2023 reading9.15income2023
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2023 reading9.06income2023
13SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2023 reading9.05income2023
14IraqIRQWestern Asia · 2023 reading8.86consumption2023
15PolandPOLEastern Europe · 2023 reading8.60income2023
16CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2023 reading8.59income2023
17EstoniaESTNorthern Europe · 2023 reading8.26income2023
18ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading7.94consumption2023
19IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading7.86consumption2023
20SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2023 reading7.85income2023
21CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe · 2023 reading7.75income2023
22AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2023 reading7.73income2023
23FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2023 reading7.69income2023
24RussiaRUSEastern Europe · 2023 reading7.67income2023
25MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2023 reading7.63income2023

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2023 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1India11.07
  2. 2Kiribati10.19
  3. 3Slovenia10.04
  4. 4Moldova9.90
  5. 5Kyrgyzstan9.87

Lowest

  1. 60Colombia3.24
  2. 59Honduras3.62
  3. 58Brazil3.71
  4. 57Panama3.74
  5. 56Costa Rica4.49

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.12. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 51 in both
  • 25 · 26rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− Zambia

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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • 56 distinct values among 60

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 9.15. 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 60 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 (2023). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2023

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2023 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2023 compilation?

India, at 11.07, of the 60 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2023 compilation cover?

60.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2023 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%, 2023 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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