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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2002 compilation

Name: Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2002 compilation
Creator: World Bank Group
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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2002 compilation covers 68 countries. Botswana is highest, at 49.99; Sweden is lowest, at 21.33. The middle country reads 28.87.

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Income Share Held by Richest 10% · Latest available · compiled 2002

HighestBotswana

49.99

LowestSweden

21.33

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

68countries
1measure
2002compiled · readings from many years
67distinct values2 decimals, as published
Sep 26, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2002 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 Richest 10%, 2002 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	49.99	consumption	2002.53
2	Bolivia`BOL`South America · 2002 reading	46.59	income	2002
3	Paraguay`PRY`South America · 2002 reading	46.17	income	2002
4	Brazil`BRA`South America · 2002 reading	46.13	income	2002
5	Colombia`COL`South America · 2002 reading	45.18	income	2002
6	Panama`PAN`Central America · 2002 reading	42.98	income	2002
7	Honduras`HND`Central America · 2002 reading	42.71	income	2002
8	Peru`PER`South America · 2002 reading	42.06	income	2002
9	Argentina`ARG`South America · 2002 reading	40.50	income	2002
10	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America · 2002 reading	40.43	income	2002
11	Mexico`MEX`Central America · 2002 reading	39.93	income	2002
12	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	39.32	consumption	2002.5
13	El Salvador`SLV`Central America · 2002 reading	38.82	income	2002
14	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean · 2002 reading	38.32	income	2002
15	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	38.16	consumption	2002.75
16	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean · 2002 reading	37.99	consumption	2002
17	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	37.46	consumption	2002.36
18	Venezuela`VEN`South America · 2002 reading	36.19	income	2002
19	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	34.83	consumption	2002.5
20	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	33.96	consumption	2002.25
21	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	33.71	consumption	2002.83
22	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia · 2002 reading	33.17	consumption	2002
23	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia · 2002 reading	32.69	consumption	2002
24	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia · 2002 reading	32.48	consumption	2002
25	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia · 2002 reading	31.85	consumption	2002
26	China`CHN`Eastern Asia · 2002 reading	31.38	consumption	2002
27	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa · 2002 reading	31.35	consumption	2002
28	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa · 2002 reading	30.76	consumption	2002
29	United States`USA`Northern America · 2002 reading	30.12	income	2002
30	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia · 2002 reading	29.85	consumption	2002
31	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	29.62	consumption	2002.5
32	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	29.51	consumption	2002.5
33	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	29.04	consumption	2002
34	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia · 2002 reading	29.00	consumption	2002
35	Israel`ISR`Western Asia · 2002 reading	28.74	income	2002
36	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia · 2002 reading	28.18	consumption	2002
37	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	28.14	consumption	2002
38	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa · 2002 reading	28.03	consumption	2002
39	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	27.71	income	2002
40	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	27.53	consumption	2002
41	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	27.48	consumption	2002
42	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia · 2002 reading	27.36	consumption	2002
43	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	27.30	consumption	2002
44	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	27.10	income	2002
45	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	27.05	consumption	2002.25
46	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia · 2002 reading	26.79	consumption	2002
47	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	26.73	consumption	2002
48	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	26.21	consumption	2002
49	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia · 2002 reading	25.92	consumption	2002
50	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	25.80	income	2002
51	Canada`CAN`Northern America · 2002 reading	25.52	income	2002
52	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	25.34	consumption	2002
53	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe · 2002 reading	25.05	income	2002
54	France`FRA`Western Europe · 2002 reading	25.01	income	2002
55	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	25.00	income	2002
56	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	24.86	consumption	2002
57	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	24.63	consumption	2002.15
58	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe · 2002 reading	24.12	income	2002
59	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	24.02	consumption	2002
60	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia · 2002 reading	23.94	consumption	2002
=61	Germany`DEU`Western Europe · 2002 reading	23.75	income	2002
=61	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	23.75	consumption	2002
63	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia · 2002 reading	23.18	consumption	2002
64	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	23.17	consumption	2002
65	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	23.03	consumption	2002
66	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	22.57	income	2002
67	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	22.21	consumption	2002
68	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	21.33	income	2002

02In Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2002 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Botswana49.99
2Bolivia46.59
3Paraguay46.17
4Brazil46.13
5Colombia45.18

Lowest

68Sweden21.33
67Hungary22.21
66Czechia22.57
65Slovenia23.03
64Ukraine23.17

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 28.87. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

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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 2002, from 2002 to 2002.
67 distinct values among 68
Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 23.75. 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 68 countries has every column.

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

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