Dataset · World Bank Group
Income Growth of the Poorest 40%
11 editions, 2014–2024 · 89 countries · 2 measures
This measures how fast the incomes of each country's poorest 40% grew — the annual growth in their real consumption or income per person between two household surveys about five years apart. It is the World Bank's measure of shared prosperity: whether growth is reaching the people at the bottom.
This site holds every edition from 2014 to 2024, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Income Growth of the Poorest 40% · the file
- Newest
- Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2024 compilation
- Held
- 11 editions · 925 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0111 editions
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: bottom-40-income-growth-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
026 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
EconomycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 89 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 89 | 0 | |
Survey years (spell)periodReading year | The two household-survey years the growth rate runs between — the earlier survey and the most recent one in this economy's spell. | Year | — | 15 | 0 | |
Survey measureswelfare_typeGrouping | Whether the surveys measured income or consumption. Growth rates from the two kinds are not strictly comparable. | Text | — | 2 | 0 | |
Annualized growth in real income or consumption per person, bottom 40% (%)growth_bottom40Headline | The headline figure: Annualized growth in real income or consumption per person of the bottom 40% (%). | Number · up to 17 decimals | -4.185 Mozambique14.513 Romaniamiddle 1.841 | 89 | 0 | |
Annualized growth in real income or consumption per person, whole population (%)growth_totalMeasure | The same annualized growth rate for the whole population. Where the poorest 40% grew faster than this, growth was shared. | Number · up to 17 decimals | -6.1073 Malawi13.4636Romaniamiddle 1.1213 | 89 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03126 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 15 | 15 | 9 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 18 |
| Americas | 15 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| Asia | 19 | 20 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 15 |
| Europe | 17 | 36 | 37 | 39 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 39 | 36 | 37 |
| Oceania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All | 66 | 85 | 79 | 92 | 84 | 93 | 91 | 87 | 79 | 80 | 89 |
Who joined and who left
- 2024 compilation
+ Albania
+ Benin
+ Burkina Faso
+ Côte d’Ivoire
+ Guinea-Bissau
+ Jamaica
+ South Korea
+ Mali
+ Mauritania
+ Niger
+ Senegal
+ Chad
+ Togo
+ Tunisia
+ Zambia
− United Arab Emirates
− Armenia
− Laos
− Mongolia
− Pakistan
− Seychelles - 2023 compilation
+ Australia
+ Dominican Republic
+ Gambia
+ Kenya
+ Sri Lanka+ Mozambique
+ Malaysia− Albania
− Bhutan
− Iceland
− Myanmar
− Mauritius
− Kosovo - 2022 compilation
+ Mexico+ Myanmar− Dominican Republic
− Ghana− South Korea− Sri Lanka− Malaysia
− Palestine
− Rwanda
− Sierra Leone
− Taiwan
− Zimbabwe - 2021 compilation+ United Arab Emirates
+ Bulgaria+ South Korea+ Laos+ Seychelles+ Taiwan− Benin
− Bangladesh
− Botswana
− Ethiopia
− Namibia
− Eswatini− Togo− Tunisia
− Tanzania− Zambia - 2020 compilation+ Albania+ Benin
+ Israel+ Mauritius+ Sierra Leone+ Eswatini+ Tanzania+ Zimbabwe− Burkina Faso− Bulgaria
− Fiji− Mexico− Mozambique− Niger
− Nicaragua
− Tajikistan
− Tonga
− South Africa - 2019 compilation
+ Brazil+ Botswana
+ Canada
+ China
+ Germany+ Ghana+ Malawi+ Malaysia+ Tonga+ Tunisia
+ United States− Côte d’Ivoire− Mauritania - 2018 compilation+ Ethiopia+ Mozambique+ Namibia− Albania− Benin
− Cameroon− Germany
− Guinea
− Iraq
− Jordan− Laos
− Madagascar− Mauritius− Tanzania - 2017 compilation+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bangladesh+ Côte d’Ivoire
+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Guinea+ Jordan+ Madagascar
+ Malta+ Mauritania+ Niger+ Palestine+ Tajikistan+ Kosovo+ South Africa+ Zambia
− DR Congo
− Republic of the Congo
− India− Senegal
Not in this dataset · 99 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
Afghanistan
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda
Bosnia and Herzegovina
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cayman Islands
Central African RepublicChannel Islands
Comoros
Cook Islands
Cuba
Curaçao
Djibouti
Dominica
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gibraltar
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Japan
Kiribati
Kuwait
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Macau
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Morocco
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nigeria
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Oman
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Solomon Islands
SomaliaSomaliland
South Sudan
Sudan
Suriname
Syria
Timor-Leste
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United States Virgin Islands
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Yemen04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Global Database of Shared Prosperity, AM2024 release (circa 2016-2021)
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
11 files, one per edition
Each downloads as a CSV, or every edition together as bottom-40-income-growth-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 17 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
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.
The World Bank's Global Database of Shared Prosperity, read from the Bank's workbook of every release rather than its indicator API, which rounds the figures to two decimals.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2014–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/bottom-40-income-growth
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Global Database of Shared Prosperity. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Income Growth of the Poorest 40% by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
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07Questions
Income Growth of the Poorest 40%: questions and answers
What is the Income Growth of the Poorest 40%?
This measures how fast the incomes of each country's poorest 40% grew — the annual growth in their real consumption or income per person between two household surveys about five years apart. It is the World Bank's measure of shared prosperity: whether growth is reaching the people at the bottom.
Which editions of the Income Growth of the Poorest 40% can I download?
All 11, from 2014 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every edition together in one CSV.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.