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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2014 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2014; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2014 compilation covers 84 countries. South Africa is highest, at 47.00; Slovakia is lowest, at 20.27. The middle country reads 26.46. Against the 2013 compilation, 65 values changed (27 up, 38 down), 19 countries joined, 13 left.

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Income Share Held by Richest 10% · Latest available · compiled 2014

HighestSouth Africa

47.00

LowestSlovakia

20.27

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2014 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 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2014 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa47.00consumption2014.83
2MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa45.47consumption2014.44
3ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2014 reading41.73income2014
4BrazilBRASouth America · 2014 reading41.07income2014
5ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2014 reading40.70income2014
6MexicoMEXCentral America · 2014 reading39.46income2014
7PanamaPANCentral America · 2014 reading38.49income2014
8GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2014 reading38.02income2014
9HondurasHNDCentral America · 2014 reading37.36income2014
10NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2014 reading37.21income2014
11Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2014 reading36.91income2014
12BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2014 reading36.04income2014
13CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2014 reading35.04consumption2014
14EcuadorECUSouth America · 2014 reading34.40income2014
15ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2014 reading33.65consumption2014
16Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2014 reading33.36income2014
=17El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2014 reading32.14income2014
=17PeruPERSouth America · 2014 reading32.14income2014
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2014 reading31.60consumption2014
20IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2014 reading31.48consumption2014
21United StatesUSANorthern America · 2014 reading30.81income2014
22ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2014 reading30.07income2014
23UruguayURYSouth America · 2014 reading29.81income2014
24ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2014 reading29.65consumption2014
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2014 reading29.60consumption2014

02In Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2014 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1South Africa47.00
  2. 2Mozambique45.47
  3. 3Colombia41.73
  4. 4Brazil41.07
  5. 5Paraguay40.70

Lowest

  1. 84Slovakia20.27
  2. 83Ukraine20.57
  3. 82Slovenia21.17
  4. 81Norway21.61
  5. 80Kosovo21.98

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 26.46. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032013 → 2014

Since the 2013 compilation

What changed between the 2013 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +19 / −13countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 65 in both
  • 27 · 38rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Australia+ Burkina Faso+ Cameroon+ Comoros+ Guatemala+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Niger+ Nicaragua+ Sudan+ Timor-Leste+ Vietnam+ Yemen+ South Africa− United Arab Emirates− Burundi− Chile− Djibouti− Fiji− Micronesia− Morocco− Malaysia− Pakistan− Rwanda− Seychelles− Taiwan− Samoa

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 2014, from 2014 to 2014.

  • 82 distinct values among 84

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 32.14. 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 84 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 (2014). Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2014 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-richest-10/2014

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2014 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the richest 10% in Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2014 compilation?

South Africa, at 47.00, of the 84 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2014 compilation cover?

84.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2014 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 Richest 10%, 2014 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilation.

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