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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2019 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2019; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2019 compilation covers 79 countries. Brazil is highest, at 41.92; Slovakia is lowest, at 18.80. The middle country reads 25.66. Against the 2018 compilation, 67 values changed (32 up, 35 down), 12 countries joined, 27 left.

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Income Share Held by Richest 10% · Latest available · compiled 2019

HighestBrazil

41.92

LowestSlovakia

18.80

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%, 2019 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%, 2019 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BrazilBRASouth America · 2019 reading41.92income2019
2MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa41.68consumption2019.92
3ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2019 reading40.64income2019
4ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2019 reading40.55consumption2019
5PanamaPANCentral America · 2019 reading38.03income2019
6Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2019 reading36.66income2019
7ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2019 reading35.17income2019
8HondurasHNDCentral America · 2019 reading34.65income2019
9UgandaUGAEastern Africa34.51consumption2019.64
10EcuadorECUSouth America · 2019 reading34.49income2019
11TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2019 reading33.95income2019
12Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2019 reading33.10income2019
13BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2019 reading31.40income2019
14ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2019 reading31.34income2019
15PeruPERSouth America · 2019 reading31.12income2019
16United StatesUSANorthern America · 2019 reading31.05income2019
17MalawiMWIEastern Africa30.98consumption2019.31
=18BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2019 reading30.84income2019
=18Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2019 reading30.84consumption2019
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2019 reading29.80income2019
21UruguayURYSouth America · 2019 reading29.69income2019
22ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2019 reading29.46consumption2019
23KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2019 reading28.76income2019
24IranIRNSouthern Asia28.29consumption2019.23
25IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2019 reading27.84consumption2019

02In Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2019 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Brazil41.92
  2. 2Mozambique41.68
  3. 3Colombia40.64
  4. 4Zimbabwe40.55
  5. 5Panama38.03

Lowest

  1. 79Slovakia18.80
  2. 78Slovenia20.74
  3. 77Belarus21.32
  4. 76Czechia21.49
  5. 75Moldova21.97

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 25.66. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since the 2018 compilation

What changed between the 2018 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −27countries joined / left
  • 67values changed, of 67 in both
  • 32 · 35rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− 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

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 2019, from 2019 to 2019.

  • 78 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 30.84. 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

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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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

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World Bank Group (2019). Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2019 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-richest-10/2019

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2019 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the richest 10% in Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2019 compilation?

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

How many countries does Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2019 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2019 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%, 2019 compilation the newest?

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

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