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Gini Index, 2022 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2022; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Gini Index, 2022 compilation covers 73 countries. Colombia is highest, at 54.82; Slovakia is lowest, at 24.08. The middle country reads 33.91. Against the 2021 compilation, 56 values changed (27 up, 29 down), 17 countries joined, 26 left.

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Gini Index · Latest available · compiled 2022

HighestColombia

54.82

LowestSlovakia

24.08

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, 2022 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 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index, 2022 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2022 reading54.82income2022
2South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa54.05consumption2022.85
3BrazilBRASouth America · 2022 reading51.89income2022
4ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2022 reading51.48consumption2022
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa49.56consumption2022.08
6Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2022 reading47.15income2022
7EcuadorECUSouth America · 2022 reading45.47income2022
8ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2022 reading44.59income2022
9TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2022 reading44.47income2022
10MexicoMEXCentral America · 2022 reading43.45income2022
11ChileCHLSouth America · 2022 reading43.24income2022
12United StatesUSANorthern America · 2022 reading41.70income2022
13BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2022 reading41.21income2022
14ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2022 reading40.74income2022
15UruguayURYSouth America · 2022 reading40.55income2022
16PeruPERSouth America · 2022 reading40.35income2022
17TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2022 reading39.49consumption2022
18SurinameSURSouth America · 2022 reading39.18consumption2022
19El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2022 reading38.75income2022
20Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa38.54consumption2022.61
21KenyaKENEastern Africa38.53consumption2022.67
=22IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2022 reading38.31income2022
=22KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2022 reading38.31income2022
24BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2022 reading38.20income2022
25ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2022 reading37.36consumption2022

02In Gini Index, 2022 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Colombia54.82
  2. 2South Africa54.05
  3. 3Brazil51.89
  4. 4Zambia51.48
  5. 5Mozambique49.56

Lowest

  1. 73Slovakia24.08
  2. 72Slovenia24.31
  3. 71India25.51
  4. 70Moldova25.86
  5. 69Czechia25.87

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 33.91. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since the 2021 compilation

What changed between the 2021 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −26countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 56 in both
  • 27 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bangladesh+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Equatorial Guinea+ India+ Lebanon+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Suriname+ Syria+ Chad+ Vietnam+ South Africa+ Zambia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Central African Republic− Côte d’Ivoire− Cameroon− Egypt− Ethiopia− United Kingdom− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Kazakhstan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mali− Montenegro− Malaysia− Niger− Netherlands− Panama− Philippines− Senegal− Togo− Tonga− Tunisia− Taiwan

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 2022, from 2022 to 2022.

  • 71 distinct values among 73

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 38.31. 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 73 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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    Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.

    Download gini-index-2022-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 (2022). Gini Index, 2022 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gini-index/2022

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07Questions

Gini Index, 2022 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gini index in Gini Index, 2022 compilation?

Colombia, at 54.82, of the 73 countries in the file.

How many countries does Gini Index, 2022 compilation cover?

73.

Where can I download Gini Index, 2022 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, 2022 compilation the newest?

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

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