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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries. Kosovo is highest, at 45.91; Slovakia is lowest, at 19.04. The middle country reads 25.94. Against the 2019 compilation, 61 values changed (26 up, 35 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

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Income Share Held by Richest 10% · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestKosovo

45.91

LowestSlovakia

19.04

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%, 2020 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 71 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2020 reading45.91income2020
2ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2020 reading42.00income2020
3BrazilBRASouth America · 2020 reading39.40income2020
4ChileCHLSouth America · 2020 reading37.26income2020
5Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2020 reading36.99income2020
6EcuadorECUSouth America · 2020 reading36.04income2020
7DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2020 reading35.67consumption2020
8MexicoMEXCentral America · 2020 reading35.07income2020
9ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2020 reading33.29income2020
10TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2020 reading32.98income2020
11PeruPERSouth America · 2020 reading32.86income2020
12BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2020 reading32.56income2020
13BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2020 reading32.55income2020
14ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2020 reading30.63income2020
15GambiaGMBWestern Africa30.53consumption2020.08
16Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2020 reading30.43income2020
17UruguayURYSouth America · 2020 reading29.88income2020
18BurundiBDIEastern Africa29.86consumption2020.15
19United StatesUSANorthern America · 2020 reading29.73income2020
20ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2020 reading29.36consumption2020
21VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading28.48consumption2020
22LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2020 reading28.46income2020
23KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2020 reading28.42consumption2020
24IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading27.93consumption2020
25ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2020 reading27.85consumption2020

02In Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2020 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kosovo45.91
  2. 2Colombia42.00
  3. 3Brazil39.40
  4. 4Chile37.26
  5. 5Costa Rica36.99

Lowest

  1. 71Slovakia19.04
  2. 70Slovenia20.50
  3. 69Belarus20.72
  4. 68Belgium21.36
  5. 67Armenia21.45

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 25.94. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

What changed between the 2019 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −17countries joined / left
  • 61values changed, of 62 in both
  • 26 · 35rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− 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 2020, from 2020 to 2020.

  • 70 distinct values among 71

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 22.76. 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 71 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 (2020). Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-richest-10/2020

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2020 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the richest 10% in Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2020 compilation?

Kosovo, at 45.91, of the 71 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2020 compilation cover?

71.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2020 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%, 2020 compilation the newest?

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

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