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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2021 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2021; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2021 compilation covers 82 countries. Colombia is highest, at 43.72; Slovakia is lowest, at 19.13. The middle country reads 26.26. Against the 2020 compilation, 59 values changed (38 up, 21 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Income Share Held by Richest 10% · Latest available · compiled 2021

HighestColombia

43.72

LowestSlovakia

19.13

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%, 2021 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.

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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2021 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2021 reading43.72income2021
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2021 reading41.48income2021
3PanamaPANCentral America · 2021 reading39.35income2021
4Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2021 reading37.17income2021
=5EcuadorECUSouth America · 2021 reading34.73income2021
=5TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2021 reading34.73income2021
=7Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2021 reading33.14consumption2021
=7ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2021 reading33.14income2021
9KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2021 reading32.85income2021
10PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading32.50income2021
11KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2021 reading31.79consumption2021
12ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2021 reading31.25income2021
13CameroonCMRMiddle Africa31.15consumption2021.67
14MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia30.94income2021.46
15UruguayURYSouth America · 2021 reading30.85income2021
16PeruPERSouth America · 2021 reading30.52income2021
17BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2021 reading30.27income2021
18Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2021 reading30.24income2021
19Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa30.18consumption2021.67
20United StatesUSANorthern America · 2021 reading30.15income2021
21BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2021 reading29.89income2021
22TogoTGOWestern Africa29.63consumption2021.63
23MadagascarMDGEastern Africa29.62consumption2021.75
24JamaicaJAMCaribbean · 2021 reading29.55consumption2021
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2021 reading29.08income2021

02In Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2021 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Colombia43.72
  2. 2Brazil41.48
  3. 3Panama39.35
  4. 4Costa Rica37.17
  5. 5Ecuadorshared34.73

Lowest

  1. 82Slovakia19.13
  2. 81Slovenia20.65
  3. 80Netherlands21.36
  4. 79Belgium21.86
  5. 78Tonga22.01

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 26.26. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 compilation

What changed between the 2020 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −12countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 59 in both
  • 38 · 21rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− 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 2021, from 2021 to 2021.

  • 78 distinct values among 82

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 34.73. 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 82 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 (2021). Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2021 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-richest-10/2021

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2021 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the richest 10% in Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2021 compilation?

Colombia, at 43.72, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2021 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2021 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%, 2021 compilation the newest?

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

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