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Gini Index, 2016 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2016; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2016 compilation covers 84 countries. Eswatini is highest, at 54.58; Slovenia is lowest, at 24.76. The middle country reads 34.47. Against the 2015 compilation, 65 values changed (25 up, 40 down), 19 countries joined, 22 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2016

HighestEswatini

54.58

LowestSlovenia

24.76

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, 2016 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 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2016 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa54.58consumption2016.17
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2016 reading53.36income2016
3ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2016 reading51.72income2016
4PanamaPANCentral America · 2016 reading50.41income2016
5HondurasHNDCentral America · 2016 reading49.80income2016
6Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2016 reading48.70income2016
7ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2016 reading47.90income2016
8MexicoMEXCentral America · 2016 reading46.91income2016
9Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2016 reading45.72income2016
10BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2016 reading45.24income2016
11EcuadorECUSouth America · 2016 reading45.02income2016
12MalawiMWIEastern Africa44.69consumption2016.31
13South SudanSSDEastern Africa44.05consumption2016.5
14RwandaRWAEastern Africa43.71consumption2016.77
15PeruPERSouth America · 2016 reading43.64income2016
16GhanaGHAWestern Africa43.51consumption2016.75
17UgandaUGAEastern Africa42.75consumption2016.5
18ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2016 reading42.35income2016
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2016 reading41.87consumption2016
20United StatesUSANorthern America · 2016 reading41.33income2016
21BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2016 reading40.59income2016
22El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2016 reading39.98income2016
23UruguayURYSouth America · 2016 reading39.70income2016
24Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2016 reading39.35consumption2016
25IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2016 reading39.01income2016

02In Gini Index, 2016 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Eswatini54.58
  2. 2Brazil53.36
  3. 3Colombia51.72
  4. 4Panama50.41
  5. 5Honduras49.80

Lowest

  1. 84Slovenia24.76
  2. 83Ukraine25.00
  3. 82Slovakia25.15
  4. 81Belarus25.31
  5. 80Czechia25.41

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 34.47. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since the 2015 compilation

What changed between the 2015 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +19 / −22countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 65 in both
  • 25 · 40rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Argentina+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ Ghana+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Botswana− Chile− Côte d’Ivoire− Cabo Verde− Egypt− Ethiopia− Gambia− Kenya− Saint Lucia− Myanmar− Malaysia− Namibia− Nigeria− Pakistan− Philippines− Togo− Tajikistan− Tonga− Tunisia− 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 2016, from 2016 to 2016.

  • 81 distinct values among 84

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 35.27. 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 84 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
  • .csv

    For a spreadsheet or code

    84 rows · 3.9 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download gini-index-2016-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 (2016). Gini Index, 2016 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2016

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2016 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2016 compilation?

Eswatini, at 54.58, of the 84 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2016 compilation cover?

84.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2016 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, 2016 compilation the newest?

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

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