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Gini Index, 2012 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2012; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2012 compilation covers 87 countries. Colombia is highest, at 53.57; Ukraine is lowest, at 24.74. The middle country reads 35.40. Against the 2011 compilation, 64 values changed (32 up, 32 down), 22 countries joined, 17 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2012

HighestColombia

53.57

LowestUkraine

24.74

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, 2012 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 87 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2012 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2012 reading53.57income2012
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2012 reading53.45income2012
3HondurasHNDCentral America · 2012 reading53.36income2012
4PanamaPANCentral America · 2012 reading51.74income2012
5MexicoMEXCentral America · 2012 reading49.60income2012
6Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2012 reading48.42income2012
7ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2012 reading47.63income2012
8BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2012 reading46.58income2012
9PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading46.49income2012
10Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2012 reading46.13income2012
11EcuadorECUSouth America · 2012 reading46.11income2012
12DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2012 reading45.11consumption2012
13PeruPERSouth America · 2012 reading44.44income2012
14MadagascarMDGEastern Africa42.64consumption2012.73
15GhanaGHAWestern Africa42.37consumption2012.8
16ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2012 reading42.12consumption2012
17DR CongoCODMiddle Africa42.08consumption2012.4
18El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2012 reading41.83income2012
19ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2012 reading41.44income2012
20IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2012 reading41.30income2012
21MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2012 reading41.21income2012
22United StatesUSANorthern America · 2012 reading41.16income2012
23HaitiHTICaribbean · 2012 reading41.10consumption2012
24UgandaUGAEastern Africa41.01consumption2012.45
25RussiaRUSEastern Europe · 2012 reading40.71consumption2012

02In Gini Index, 2012 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Colombia53.57
  2. 2Brazil53.45
  3. 3Honduras53.36
  4. 4Panama51.74
  5. 5Mexico49.60

Lowest

  1. 87Ukraine24.74
  2. 86Slovenia25.59
  3. 85Norway25.73
  4. 84Czechia26.11
  5. 83Slovakia26.12

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 35.40. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since the 2011 compilation

What changed between the 2011 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −17countries joined / left
  • 64values changed, of 65 in both
  • 32 · 32rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Bhutan+ DR Congo+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Ghana+ Guinea+ Haiti+ Iraq+ South Korea+ Laos+ Sri Lanka+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mauritius+ Nigeria+ Nauru+ Philippines+ Solomon Islands+ Serbia+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Chile− Republic of the Congo− Algeria− India− Lebanon− Malaysia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− Zimbabwe

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 2012, from 2012 to 2012.

  • 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 87 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

    87 rows · 4.0 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download gini-index-2012-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 (2012). Gini Index, 2012 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2012

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2012 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2012 compilation?

Colombia, at 53.57, of the 87 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2012 compilation cover?

87.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2012 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, 2012 compilation the newest?

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

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