Gini Index of Disposable Income (SWIID), 1988

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Gini Index of Disposable Income (SWIID), 1988: every country, as published by Frederick Solt, University of Iowa.

Positionderived	Country	Gini index of disposable household income (0–100), SWIID estimate	Standard error of the estimate (Gini points)
1	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	61.0	2.66
2	BrazilBRASouth America	56.7	0.52
3	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	56.0	3.39
4	PeruPERSouth America	53.7	2.58
5	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	53.6	3.75
6	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	53.2	3.30
7	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	52.6	3.88
8	ChileCHLSouth America	50.7	1.09
9	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	50.5	2.08
10	HondurasHNDCentral America	50.4	2.33
11	PanamaPANCentral America	50.2	1.23
12	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	49.7	3.54
13	ColombiaCOLSouth America	49.3	2.32
14	KenyaKENEastern Africa	48.7	3.09
15	Puerto RicoPRICaribbean	48.6	3.37
16	MexicoMEXCentral America	47.3	1.63
17	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	47.2	2.02
=18	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean	45.9	2.51
=18	SudanSDNNorthern Africa	45.9	4.43
=20	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	45.0	3.57
=20	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	45.0	3.70
22	ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	44.5	1.69
23	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	44.2	3.15
=24	JamaicaJAMCaribbean	44.0	2.64
=24	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	44.0	2.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 36.8. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Standard error of the estimate (Gini points)

  HighestSudan4.43

  LowestUnited States0.41

  Middle country: 1.90

• +21 / −0countries joined / left
• 70values changed, of 82 in both
• 47 · 23rose · fell
• 12unchanged

+ Armenia+ Azerbaijan+ Belarus+ Czechia+ Algeria+ Estonia+ Georgia+ Honduras+ Croatia+ Jamaica+ Kazakhstan+ Kyrgyzstan+ Lithuania+ Latvia+ Moldova+ Qatar+ Russia+ Slovakia+ Tajikistan+ Turkmenistan+ Uzbekistan

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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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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