Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2012 compilation

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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2012 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	BrazilBRASouth America · 2012 reading	42.40	income	2012
2	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2012 reading	41.59	income	2012
3	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2012 reading	40.39	income	2012
4	PanamaPANCentral America · 2012 reading	39.66	income	2012
5	MexicoMEXCentral America · 2012 reading	39.58	income	2012
6	ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2012 reading	36.87	income	2012
7	Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2012 reading	36.61	income	2012
8	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading	36.27	income	2012
9	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2012 reading	36.04	income	2012
10	EcuadorECUSouth America · 2012 reading	34.61	income	2012
11	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2012 reading	34.37	consumption	2012
12	BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2012 reading	33.67	income	2012
13	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	33.48	consumption	2012.73
14	PeruPERSouth America · 2012 reading	33.25	income	2012
15	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	32.87	consumption	2012.45
16	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2012 reading	32.58	income	2012
17	RussiaRUSEastern Europe · 2012 reading	32.17	consumption	2012
18	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	31.99	consumption	2012.4
19	Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	31.93	consumption	2012.5
20	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	31.74	consumption	2012.8
21	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa · 2012 reading	31.60	consumption	2012
22	ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2012 reading	31.45	consumption	2012
23	HaitiHTICaribbean · 2012 reading	31.20	consumption	2012
24	BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2012 reading	30.74	consumption	2012
25	TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2012 reading	30.50	consumption	2012

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 26.64. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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+ Albania+ Bhutan+ DR Congo+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Ghana+ Guinea+ Haiti+ Iraq+ South Korea+ Laos+ Sri Lanka+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mauritius+ Nigeria+ Nauru+ Philippines+ Solomon Islands+ Serbia+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Chile− Republic of the Congo− Algeria− India− Lebanon− Malaysia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− Zimbabwe

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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