Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2009 compilation

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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2009 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Positionderived	Country	Share of national income held by the richest tenth (%)	Survey measures	Survey year
1	NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	51.84	consumption	2009.54
2	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	46.47	consumption	2009.25
3	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2009 reading	42.67	income	2009
4	BrazilBRASouth America · 2009 reading	42.18	income	2009
5	PanamaPANCentral America · 2009 reading	40.11	income	2009
6	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	39.97	consumption	2009.25
7	Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2009 reading	39.43	income	2009
8	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2009 reading	38.71	income	2009
9	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2009 reading	38.41	income	2009
10	ChileCHLSouth America · 2009 reading	38.39	income	2009
11	ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2009 reading	38.03	income	2009
12	EcuadorECUSouth America · 2009 reading	37.11	income	2009
13	BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2009 reading	36.90	income	2009
14	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	36.43	consumption	2009.4
15	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2009 reading	36.26	income	2009
16	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2009 reading	35.98	income	2009
17	PeruPERSouth America · 2009 reading	35.19	income	2009
18	UruguayURYSouth America · 2009 reading	34.56	income	2009
19	NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2009 reading	34.20	income	2009
20	South SudanSSDEastern Africa · 2009 reading	33.20	consumption	2009
21	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2009 reading	32.05	consumption	2009
22	SyriaSYRWestern Asia · 2009 reading	31.64	consumption	2009
23	ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2009 reading	31.32	income	2009
24	IranIRNSouthern Asia	31.25	consumption	2009.23
25	RussiaRUSEastern Europe · 2009 reading	31.08	consumption	2009

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 26.68. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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• 61values changed, of 62 in both
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+ Burkina Faso+ Botswana+ Chile+ India+ Iran+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mali+ Namibia+ Nicaragua+ Philippines+ Papua New Guinea+ Palestine+ Sudan+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Syria+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Uganda+ Kosovo− Angola− Albania− Australia− Central African Republic− China− Côte d’Ivoire− Egypt− Fiji− Jordan− South Korea− Mexico− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malaysia− Vietnam− Samoa− South Africa

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.

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