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Gini Index, 2007 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2007; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2007 compilation covers 73 countries. Honduras is highest, at 55.82; Slovenia is lowest, at 24.35. The middle country reads 34.26. Against the 2006 compilation, 59 values changed (26 up, 33 down), 14 countries joined, 23 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2007

HighestHonduras

55.82

LowestSlovenia

24.35

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gini Index, 2007 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 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2007 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1HondurasHNDCentral America · 2007 reading55.82income2007
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2007 reading54.92income2007
3BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2007 reading54.53income2007
4EcuadorECUSouth America · 2007 reading53.36income2007
5ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2007 reading53.04income2007
6PanamaPANCentral America · 2007 reading52.68income2007
7PeruPERSouth America · 2007 reading50.02income2007
8Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2007 reading49.31income2007
9Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2007 reading48.86income2007
10Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa47.19consumption2007.33
11UruguayURYSouth America · 2007 reading46.40income2007
12ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2007 reading46.28income2007
13El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2007 reading45.22income2007
14CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2007 reading42.82consumption2007
15RussiaRUSEastern Europe · 2007 reading42.27consumption2007
16IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2007 reading41.10income2007
17United StatesUSANorthern America · 2007 reading41.09income2007
18TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa · 2007 reading40.28consumption2007
19ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia · 2007 reading39.76consumption2007
20GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2007 reading39.36consumption2007
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2007 reading38.44consumption2007
22GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2007 reading38.11consumption2007
23BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2007 reading38.09consumption2007
24RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2007 reading37.55income2007
25LatviaLVANorthern Europe · 2007 reading37.46income2007

02In Gini Index, 2007 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Honduras55.82
  2. 2Brazil54.92
  3. 3Bolivia54.53
  4. 4Ecuador53.36
  5. 5Paraguay53.04

Lowest

  1. 73Slovenia24.35
  2. 72Slovakia24.66
  3. 71Czechia26.00
  4. 70Denmark26.18
  5. 69Ukraine27.01

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 34.26. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since the 2006 compilation

What changed between the 2006 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +14 / −23countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 59 in both
  • 26 · 33rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bhutan+ Cameroon+ Cabo Verde+ Guinea+ Laos+ Liberia+ Mongolia+ Niger+ Pakistan+ Tajikistan+ Timor-Leste+ Taiwan+ Tanzania− Burundi− Chile− Guatemala− Iran− Iraq− Jordan− Kiribati− South Korea− Sri Lanka− Morocco− Mexico− North Macedonia− Mali− Mauritius− Malaysia− Philippines− Seychelles− Syria− Togo− Venezuela− Vietnam− Kosovo− 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.

The site’s method

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2007, from 2007 to 2007.

  • 72 distinct values among 73

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 34.26. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 73 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
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    For a spreadsheet or code

    73 rows · 3.6 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

    Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.

    Download gini-index-2007-nations-inquiry.csv
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    The publisher’s original

    World Bank Group’s own file, on its own site.

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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.

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 (2007). Gini Index, 2007 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2007

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2007 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2007 compilation?

Honduras, at 55.82, of the 73 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2007 compilation cover?

73.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2007 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Gini Index, 2007 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Gini Index, 2023 compilation.

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