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Gini Index, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries. Kosovo is highest, at 57.41; Slovenia is lowest, at 24.03. The middle country reads 34.18. Against the 2019 compilation, 62 values changed (25 up, 37 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestKosovo

57.41

LowestSlovenia

24.03

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, 2020 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 71 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2020 reading57.41income2020
2ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2020 reading54.43income2020
3Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2020 reading49.25income2020
4BrazilBRASouth America · 2020 reading48.82income2020
5EcuadorECUSouth America · 2020 reading47.31income2020
6ChileCHLSouth America · 2020 reading47.00income2020
7DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2020 reading44.67consumption2020
8MexicoMEXCentral America · 2020 reading44.59income2020
9PeruPERSouth America · 2020 reading43.74income2020
10BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2020 reading43.64income2020
11ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2020 reading43.48income2020
12TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2020 reading43.05income2020
13ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2020 reading42.74income2020
14BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2020 reading40.52income2020
15UruguayURYSouth America · 2020 reading40.16income2020
16United StatesUSANorthern America · 2020 reading40.00income2020
17Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2020 reading39.63income2020
18GambiaGMBWestern Africa38.76consumption2020.08
19IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2020 reading37.77income2020
20BurundiBDIEastern Africa37.46consumption2020.15
21ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2020 reading37.12consumption2020
22VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading36.79consumption2020
23KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2020 reading36.25consumption2020
24LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2020 reading35.96income2020
25IranIRNSouthern Asia35.84consumption2020.23

02In Gini Index, 2020 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kosovo57.41
  2. 2Colombia54.43
  3. 3Costa Rica49.25
  4. 4Brazil48.82
  5. 5Ecuador47.31

Lowest

  1. 71Slovenia24.03
  2. 70Slovakia24.22
  3. 69Belarus24.38
  4. 68Moldova25.05
  5. 67Armenia25.13

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 34.18. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

What changed between the 2019 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −17countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 62 in both
  • 25 · 37rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− 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 2020, from 2020 to 2020.

  • 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 71 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

    71 rows · 3.4 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download gini-index-2020-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 (2020). Gini Index, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2020

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2020 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2020 compilation?

Kosovo, at 57.41, of the 71 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2020 compilation cover?

71.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2020 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, 2020 compilation the newest?

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

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