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Gini Index, 2019 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2019; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2019 compilation covers 79 countries. Brazil is highest, at 53.48; Slovakia is lowest, at 23.23. The middle country reads 33.51. Against the 2018 compilation, 67 values changed (27 up, 40 down), 12 countries joined, 27 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2019

HighestBrazil

53.48

LowestSlovakia

23.23

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, 2019 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 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2019 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BrazilBRASouth America · 2019 reading53.48income2019
2ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2019 reading52.50income2019
3MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa50.74consumption2019.92
4ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2019 reading50.26consumption2019
5PanamaPANCentral America · 2019 reading49.84income2019
6Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2019 reading48.19income2019
7HondurasHNDCentral America · 2019 reading48.17income2019
8EcuadorECUSouth America · 2019 reading45.71income2019
9ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2019 reading45.65income2019
10TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2019 reading43.83income2019
11ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2019 reading43.31income2019
12UgandaUGAEastern Africa42.70consumption2019.64
13Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2019 reading41.92income2019
14United StatesUSANorthern America · 2019 reading41.90income2019
15BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2019 reading41.64income2019
16PeruPERSouth America · 2019 reading41.53income2019
17BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2019 reading40.27income2019
18KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2019 reading40.21income2019
19UruguayURYSouth America · 2019 reading39.68income2019
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2019 reading38.78income2019
21MalawiMWIEastern Africa38.54consumption2019.31
22IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2019 reading38.28income2019
23ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2019 reading38.17consumption2019
24Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2019 reading37.66consumption2019
25IranIRNSouthern Asia36.48consumption2019.23

02In Gini Index, 2019 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Brazil53.48
  2. 2Colombia52.50
  3. 3Mozambique50.74
  4. 4Zimbabwe50.26
  5. 5Panama49.84

Lowest

  1. 79Slovakia23.23
  2. 78Slovenia24.38
  3. 77Czechia25.26
  4. 76Belarus25.28
  5. 75Moldova26.02

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 33.51. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since the 2018 compilation

What changed between the 2018 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −27countries joined / left
  • 67values changed, of 67 in both
  • 27 · 40rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− Angola− United Arab Emirates− Australia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Grenada− Jamaica− Laos− Mexico− Mali− Mongolia− Malaysia− Niger− Nigeria− Pakistan− Philippines− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Seychelles− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− 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 2019, from 2019 to 2019.

  • 77 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 35.67. 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 79 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

    79 rows · 3.8 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download gini-index-2019-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 (2019). Gini Index, 2019 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2019

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2019 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2019 compilation?

Brazil, at 53.48, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2019 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2019 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, 2019 compilation the newest?

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

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