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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2018 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2018; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2018 compilation covers 94 countries. Brazil is highest, at 42.47; Slovakia is lowest, at 19.55. The middle country reads 26.81. Against the 2017 compilation, 66 values changed (34 up, 32 down), 27 countries joined, 12 left.

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Income Share Held by Richest 10% · Latest available · compiled 2018

HighestBrazil

42.47

LowestSlovakia

19.55

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%, 2018 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 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2018 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BrazilBRASouth America · 2018 reading42.47income2018
2ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2018 reading40.04income2018
3AngolaAGOMiddle Africa39.62consumption2018.17
4PanamaPANCentral America · 2018 reading37.11income2018
5MexicoMEXCentral America · 2018 reading36.63income2018
6Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2018 reading36.35income2018
7ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2018 reading35.76income2018
8Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa35.34consumption2018.5
9HondurasHNDCentral America · 2018 reading35.33income2018
10Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2018 reading35.15income2018
11EcuadorECUSouth America · 2018 reading34.41income2018
12GrenadaGRDCaribbean33.67consumption2018.36
13PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2018 reading33.53income2018
14TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa33.12consumption2017.92
15TogoTGOWestern Africa33.02consumption2018.43
16BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2018 reading32.61income2018
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2018 reading32.60income2018
18PeruPERSouth America · 2018 reading31.60income2018
19LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia31.24consumption2018.42
20MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia31.19income2018.46
21NigerNERWestern Africa31.12consumption2018.57
22United StatesUSANorthern America · 2018 reading31.04income2018
23KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2018 reading30.81income2018
24SenegalSENWestern Africa30.78consumption2018.5
25BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2018 reading30.59income2018

02In Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2018 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Brazil42.47
  2. 2Colombia40.04
  3. 3Angola39.62
  4. 4Panama37.11
  5. 5Mexico36.63

Lowest

  1. 94Slovakia19.55
  2. 93United Arab Emirates20.48
  3. 92Slovenia20.97
  4. 91Belarus21.39
  5. 90Czechia21.51

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 26.81. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since the 2017 compilation

What changed between the 2017 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +27 / −12countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 67 in both
  • 34 · 32rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ United Arab Emirates+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Bhutan− Chile− Djibouti− Egypt− Gabon− Hungary− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mauritius− Qatar− São Tomé and Príncipe− 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.

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 2018, from 2018 to 2018.

  • 92 distinct values among 94

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 29.38. 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 94 countries has every column.

05The files

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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.

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Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2018). Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2018 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-richest-10/2018

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2018 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the richest 10% in Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2018 compilation?

Brazil, at 42.47, of the 94 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2018 compilation cover?

94.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2018 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%, 2018 compilation the newest?

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

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