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Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries. Colombia is highest, at 43.08; Slovakia is lowest, at 18.79. The middle country reads 26.18. Against the 2022 compilation, 50 values changed (23 up, 27 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Income Share Held by Richest 10% · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestColombia

43.08

LowestSlovakia

18.79

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%, 2023 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading43.08income2023
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2023 reading40.65income2023
3PanamaPANCentral America · 2023 reading36.90income2023
4Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2023 reading35.05income2023
5TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2023 reading34.43income2023
6ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading34.35income2023
7GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading34.11income2023
8RwandaRWAEastern Africa33.41consumption2023.77
9EcuadorECUSouth America · 2023 reading33.18income2023
10HondurasHNDCentral America · 2023 reading33.02income2023
11PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading31.61income2023
12BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2023 reading31.28income2023
13BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2023 reading31.14income2023
14ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2023 reading30.99income2023
15United StatesUSANorthern America · 2023 reading30.91income2023
16UruguayURYSouth America · 2023 reading30.78income2023
17PeruPERSouth America · 2023 reading30.60income2023
18TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2023 reading29.90consumption2023
19IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading29.86consumption2023
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading29.66income2023
21UgandaUGAEastern Africa29.31consumption2023.17
22Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2023 reading29.14income2023
23IranIRNSouthern Asia28.16consumption2023.23
24LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2023 reading27.26income2023
25PalestinePSEWestern Asia · 2023 reading27.14consumption2023

02In Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Colombia43.08
  2. 2Brazil40.65
  3. 3Panama36.90
  4. 4Costa Rica35.05
  5. 5Türkiye34.43

Lowest

  1. 60Slovakia18.79
  2. 59India20.52
  3. 58Slovenia20.63
  4. 57Kiribati20.91
  5. 56Czechia21.51

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 26.18. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 50values changed, of 51 in both
  • 23 · 27rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− Zambia

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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 60 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 (2023). Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-richest-10/2023

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the richest 10% in Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilation?

Colombia, at 43.08, of the 60 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 compilation cover?

60.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Richest 10%, 2023 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%, 2023 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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