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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2017 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2017; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2017 compilation covers 79 countries. Brazil is highest, at 41.92; Slovakia is lowest, at 18.45. The middle country reads 26.03. Against the 2016 compilation, 66 values changed (26 up, 40 down), 11 countries joined, 16 left.

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Income Share Held by Richest 10% · Latest available · compiled 2017

HighestBrazil

41.92

LowestSlovakia

18.45

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%, 2017 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 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2017 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BrazilBRASouth America · 2017 reading41.92income2017
2ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2017 reading39.39income2017
3ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2017 reading39.07income2017
4PanamaPANCentral America · 2017 reading37.69income2017
5Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2017 reading36.96income2017
6ChileCHLSouth America · 2017 reading36.94income2017
7HondurasHNDCentral America · 2017 reading36.55income2017
8ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2017 reading34.80consumption2017
9TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2017 reading33.98income2017
10EcuadorECUSouth America · 2017 reading33.80income2017
11Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2017 reading33.50income2017
12LesothoLSOSouthern Africa32.89consumption2017.14
13São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2017 reading32.80consumption2017
14DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2017 reading32.31consumption2017
15PeruPERSouth America · 2017 reading32.30income2017
16BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2017 reading32.00income2017
17BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2017 reading31.88income2017
18KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2017 reading31.24income2017
19United StatesUSANorthern America · 2017 reading30.40income2017
20ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2017 reading29.95income2017
21MauritiusMUSEastern Africa · 2017 reading29.87consumption2017
22ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2017 reading29.81consumption2017
23UruguayURYSouth America · 2017 reading29.64income2017
24El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2017 reading29.14income2017
25GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2017 reading28.90consumption2017

02In Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2017 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Brazil41.92
  2. 2Colombia39.39
  3. 3Paraguay39.07
  4. 4Panama37.69
  5. 5Costa Rica36.96

Lowest

  1. 79Slovakia18.45
  2. 78Slovenia20.42
  3. 77Belarus21.27
  4. 76Czechia21.45
  5. 75Norway21.62

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 26.03. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since the 2016 compilation

What changed between the 2016 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +11 / −16countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 68 in both
  • 26 · 40rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

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 2017, from 2017 to 2017.

  • 77 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 26.66. 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 79 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 (2017). Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2017 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-richest-10/2017

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2017 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the richest 10% in Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2017 compilation?

Brazil, at 41.92, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2017 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2017 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%, 2017 compilation the newest?

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

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