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Gini Index, 2013 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2013; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2013 compilation covers 78 countries. Colombia is highest, at 53.53; Ukraine is lowest, at 24.55. The middle country reads 36.16. Against the 2012 compilation, 66 values changed (37 up, 29 down), 12 countries joined, 21 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2013

HighestColombia

53.53

LowestUkraine

24.55

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, 2013 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 78 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2013 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2013 reading53.53income2013
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2013 reading52.71income2013
3PanamaPANCentral America · 2013 reading51.46income2013
4HondurasHNDCentral America · 2013 reading49.96income2013
5Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2013 reading49.15income2013
6ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2013 reading47.94income2013
7Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2013 reading47.66income2013
8BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2013 reading47.59income2013
9EcuadorECUSouth America · 2013 reading46.86income2013
=10ChileCHLSouth America · 2013 reading46.82income2013
=10SeychellesSYCEastern Africa · 2013 reading46.82income2013
12RwandaRWAEastern Africa45.11consumption2013.75
13DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2013 reading44.12consumption2013
14PeruPERSouth America · 2013 reading43.88income2013
15El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2013 reading43.36income2013
16MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia · 2013 reading41.35income2013
17ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2013 reading41.09income2013
18RussiaRUSEastern Europe · 2013 reading40.88consumption2013
19United StatesUSANorthern America · 2013 reading40.87income2013
20UruguayURYSouth America · 2013 reading40.45income2013
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2013 reading40.18consumption2013
22MicronesiaFSMMicronesia · 2013 reading40.05consumption2013
23IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2013 reading39.87income2013
24ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2013 reading39.72consumption2013
25MoroccoMARNorthern Africa39.55consumption2013.5

02In Gini Index, 2013 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Colombia53.53
  2. 2Brazil52.71
  3. 3Panama51.46
  4. 4Honduras49.96
  5. 5Costa Rica49.15

Lowest

  1. 78Ukraine24.55
  2. 77Iceland25.40
  3. 76Slovenia26.24
  4. 75Kosovo26.31
  5. 74Norway26.36

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 36.16. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since the 2012 compilation

What changed between the 2012 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −21countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 66 in both
  • 37 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ United Arab Emirates+ Burundi+ Chile+ Fiji+ Micronesia+ Morocco+ Malaysia+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ Seychelles+ Taiwan+ Samoa− Albania− Bhutan− DR Congo− Egypt− Ghana− Guinea− Haiti− Iraq− South Korea− Laos− Sri Lanka− Madagascar− Mexico− Mongolia− Mauritius− Nigeria− Nauru− Philippines− Solomon Islands− Uganda− Vietnam

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 2013, from 2013 to 2013.

  • 76 distinct values among 78

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 46.82. 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 78 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

    78 rows · 3.7 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download gini-index-2013-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 (2013). Gini Index, 2013 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2013

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2013 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2013 compilation?

Colombia, at 53.53, of the 78 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2013 compilation cover?

78.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2013 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, 2013 compilation the newest?

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

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