Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Latest available · compiled 2017

Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2017 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2017; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2017 compilation covers 92 countries on 2 measures. Mongolia is highest, at 8.167; Greece is lowest, at -11.730. The middle country reads 1.619. Against the 2016 compilation, 54 values changed (25 up, 29 down), 17 countries joined, 4 left.

Download CSVCite this edition
Share

Share this page

Income Growth of the Poorest 40% · Latest available · compiled 2017

HighestMongolia

8.167

LowestGreece

-11.730

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2017 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 92 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2017 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia · 2014 reading2010-2014consumption8.1677.1935
GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2012 reading2007-2012consumption8.1324.9363
ChileCHLSouth America · 2015 reading2009-2015income6.6685.2700
UruguayURYSouth America · 2014 reading2009-2014income6.6543.4577
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2016 reading2011-2016consumption6.6304.5965
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2012 reading2007-2012consumption6.5296.4680
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2015 reading2010-2015income6.4532.9191
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2014 reading2009-2014income6.0244.5031
ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2015 reading2009-2015income5.9725.0258
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2014 reading2009-2014consumption5.8402.9289
NigerNERWestern Africa · 2014 reading2007-2014consumption5.8315.4242
NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2014 reading2009-2014income5.6406.5214
PeruPERSouth America · 2014 reading2009-2014income5.6182.9838
PanamaPANCentral America · 2015 reading2010-2015income5.5344.9548
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa · 2011 reading2007-2011consumption5.3463.3683
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2015 reading2010-2015income5.2883.5900
UgandaUGAEastern Africa · 2012 reading2009-2012consumption5.1682.9084
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2015 reading2010-2015income5.0432.5212
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia · 2013 reading2009-2013consumption4.8093.4891
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2015 reading2010-2015income4.7823.0102
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2014 reading2010-2014consumption4.6622.1460
El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2015 reading2010-2015income4.6602.2742
JordanJORWestern Asia · 2010 reading2008-2010consumption4.5635.7701
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2014 reading2009-2014income4.5193.6694
LatviaLVANorthern Europe · 2014 reading2009-2014income4.4293.7647

02In Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2017 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. Mongolia8.167
  2. Guinea8.132
  3. Chile6.668
  4. Uruguay6.654
  5. Georgia6.630

Lowest

  1. Greece-11.730
  2. Serbia-7.263
  3. Benin-5.190
  4. Cyprus-4.657
  5. Spain-3.891

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 1.619. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Annualized growth in real income or consumption per person, whole population (%)

    HighestMongolia7.1935

    LowestGreece-9.9499

    Middle country: 1.5825

032016 → 2017

Since the 2016 compilation

What changed between the 2016 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −4countries joined / left
  • 54values changed, of 75 in both
  • 25 · 29rose · fell
  • 21unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

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.

The site’s method

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2017, from 2010 to 2016.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 92 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. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2017). Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2017 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/bottom-40-income-growth/2017

0611 held

Other editions

07Questions

Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2017 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income growth of the poorest 40% in Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2017 compilation?

Mongolia, at 8.167, of the 92 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2017 compilation cover?

92.

Where can I download Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2017 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 Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2017 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, 2024 compilation.

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.