Dataset · World Bank Group

Income Share Held by Richest 10%

22 editions, 2002–2023 · 60 countries

This is how much of all the income or consumption in a country goes to its richest tenth of people. Perfect equality would put 10% here; in practice the richest tenth hold somewhere between about a fifth and a half, which makes it the plainest single picture of how far the top pulls away.

This site holds every edition from 2002 to 2023, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

Open Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilation Download all 22 · CSV See it charted by country →

Income Share Held by Richest 10% · the file

Newest: Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilation
Held: 22 editions · 1,737 rows
Licence: CC BY 4.0

22editions held
2002–2023editions, by release
—readings from many years
60countries in the newest169 across every edition
1measure
CC BY 4.0licence

0122 editions

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

2002bar height: countries covered, up to 942023

Every edition of Income Share Held by Richest 10% held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Edition	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilationNewest	60	+9 −22	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2022 compilation	73	+17 −26	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2021 compilation	82	+23 −12	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2020 compilation	71	+9 −17	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2019 compilation	79	+12 −27	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2018 compilation	94	+27 −12	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2017 compilation	79	+11 −16	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2016 compilation	84	+19 −22	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2015 compilation	87	+22 −19	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2014 compilation	84	+19 −13	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2013 compilation	78	+12 −21	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2012 compilation	87	+22 −17	September 26, 2026	CSV

Show all 22 editions

Edition	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2011 compilation	82	+18 −23	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2010 compilation	87	+25 −21	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2009 compilation	83	+21 −17	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2008 compilation	79	+21 −15	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2007 compilation	73	+14 −23	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2006 compilation	82	+23 −22	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2005 compilation	81	+22 −16	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2004 compilation	75	+22 −16	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2003 compilation	69	+26 −25	September 26, 2026	CSV
Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2002 compilation	68	—	September 26, 2026	CSV

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: income-share-richest-10-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Income Share Held by Richest 10%: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	60
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	60
Share of national income held by the richest tenth (%)`income_share_richest_10`Headline	The headline figure: Share of national income or consumption held by the richest tenth (%).	Number · up to 2 decimals	18.79Slovakia43.08Colombiamiddle 26.18	60
Survey measures`welfare_type`Grouping	World Bank Group’s own grouping of the country.	Text	—	2
Survey year`survey_year`Reading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	6

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03169 countries across every edition

Who is covered

How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions

Countries in each edition of Income Share Held by Richest 10%, by continent.
	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Africa	9	5	9	13	7	7	15	6	5	15	7	2
Americas	17	16	18	16	17	16	19	15	14	15	16	15
Asia	20	16	17	17	20	17	21	16	15	17	20	14
Europe	39	38	39	40	39	39	38	38	36	34	30	28
Oceania	2	3	1	1	1	0	1	4	1	1	0	1
All	87	78	84	87	84	79	94	79	71	82	73	60

The newest 12 of 22 editions.

Who joined and who left

2023 compilation
+ 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
2022 compilation
+ 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
2021 compilation
+ 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
2020 compilation
+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− Zimbabwe
2019 compilation
+ 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
2018 compilation
+ 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− Bhutan− Chile− Djibouti− Egypt− Gabon− Hungary− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mauritius− Qatar− São Tomé and Príncipe− Zimbabwe
2017 compilation
+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Myanmar+ Mauritius+ Qatar+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Barbados− Ghana− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Malawi− Palestine− Rwanda− South Sudan− Eswatini− Uganda− Vietnam
2016 compilation
+ Argentina+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ Ghana+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Botswana− Chile− Côte d’Ivoire− Cabo Verde− Egypt− Ethiopia− Gambia− Kenya− Saint Lucia− Myanmar− Malaysia− Namibia− Nigeria− Pakistan− Philippines− Togo− Tajikistan− Tonga− Tunisia− Zambia

Not in this dataset · 55 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
pip.worldbank.org
2 · Their file
Income Share Held by Richest 10% 2023
pip
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
22 files, one per edition
Each downloads as a CSV, or every edition together as income-share-richest-10-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/income-share-richest-10

Precision

The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

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.

Read from the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform rather than its indicator API, which rounds the same figure to one decimal. Years outside 2002–2023 fall below 60 countries and are not imported.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 26, 2026

CC BY 4.0

Share and redistribute it
Adapt it and build on it
Use it commercially
Credit the publisher
Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: World Bank Group, Income Share Held by Richest 10%, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2002–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-richest-10

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Poverty and Inequality Platform. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

Charted
Income Share Held by Richest 10% by country
Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
- Poverty & Inequality
- Economy & Innovation
Near neighbours
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07Questions

Income Share Held by Richest 10%: questions and answers

What is the Income Share Held by Richest 10%?

Which editions of the Income Share Held by Richest 10% can I download?

All 22, from 2002 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every edition together in one CSV.

Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?

No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.

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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilationNewest

+9 −22

September 26, 2026