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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2008 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2008; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2008 compilation covers 79 countries. Slovenia is highest, at 10.22; South Africa is lowest, at 2.58. The middle country reads 7.04. Against the 2007 compilation, 56 values changed (34 up, 22 down), 21 countries joined, 15 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2008

HighestSlovenia

10.22

LowestSouth Africa

2.58

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2008 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

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2008 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2008 reading10.22income2008
2DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2008 reading9.85income2008
3CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2008 reading9.79income2008
4UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2008 reading9.64consumption2008
5KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2008 reading9.46consumption2008
=6FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2008 reading9.28income2008
=6SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2008 reading9.28consumption2008
8EgyptEGYNorthern Africa9.17consumption2008.24
9SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2008 reading9.15income2008
10NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2008 reading9.14income2008
11ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2008 reading9.12consumption2008
12BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2008 reading9.00consumption2008
13AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe · 2008 reading8.88consumption2008
14HungaryHUNEastern Europe · 2008 reading8.78income2008
15BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2008 reading8.68income2008
=16CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2008 reading8.65income2008
=16NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2008 reading8.65income2008
18IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2008 reading8.64income2008
19SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2008 reading8.59income2008
20IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2008 reading8.55consumption2008
21MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2008 reading8.49income2008
22GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2008 reading8.47income2008
23MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2008 reading8.43consumption2008
24JordanJORWestern Asia8.42consumption2008.16
25KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2008 reading8.39consumption2008

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2008 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Slovenia10.22
  2. 2Denmark9.85
  3. 3Czechia9.79
  4. 4Ukraine9.64
  5. 5Kazakhstan9.46

Lowest

  1. 79South Africa2.58
  2. 78Honduras2.73
  3. 77Colombia3.08
  4. 75Panamashared3.17
  5. 75Boliviashared3.17

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.04. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since the 2007 compilation

What changed between the 2007 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −15countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 58 in both
  • 34 · 22rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Albania+ Australia+ Central African Republic+ China+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Colombia+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Croatia+ Jordan+ Japan+ South Korea+ Mexico+ North Macedonia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malaysia+ Vietnam+ Samoa+ South Africa− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bhutan− Cameroon− Cabo Verde− Guinea− Laos− Liberia− Mongolia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Taiwan− Tanzania

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 2008, from 2008 to 2008.

  • 75 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 9.28. 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 better 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

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 (2008). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2008 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2008

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2008 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2008 compilation?

Slovenia, at 10.22, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2008 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2008 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2008 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2023 compilation.

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