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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2009 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2009; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2009 compilation covers 83 countries. Ukraine is highest, at 9.99; Bolivia is lowest, at 3.17. The middle country reads 6.85. Against the 2008 compilation, 60 values changed (30 up, 30 down), 21 countries joined, 17 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2009

HighestUkraine

9.99

LowestBolivia

3.17

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%, 2009 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 83 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2009 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2009 reading9.99consumption2009
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia9.97consumption2009.5
3SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2009 reading9.85income2009
4CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2009 reading9.62income2009
5KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2009 reading9.40consumption2009
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2009 reading9.39income2009
7ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2009 reading9.37consumption2009
8FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2009 reading9.32income2009
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2009 reading9.22income2009
10KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2009 reading9.12consumption2009
=11BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2009 reading9.07consumption2009
=11IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2009 reading9.07income2009
13SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2009 reading9.01consumption2009
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2009 reading8.95income2009
15HungaryHUNEastern Europe · 2009 reading8.85income2009
16SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2009 reading8.63income2009
17SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2009 reading8.61income2009
=18BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2009 reading8.47income2009
=18CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2009 reading8.47income2009
20IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2009 reading8.43consumption2009
=21GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2009 reading8.36income2009
=21TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2009 reading8.36consumption2009
23MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2009 reading8.26consumption2009
24MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2009 reading8.19income2009
25KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2009 reading7.99consumption2009

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2009 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Ukraine9.99
  2. 2India9.97
  3. 3Slovenia9.85
  4. 4Czechia9.62
  5. 5Kazakhstan9.40

Lowest

  1. 83Bolivia3.17
  2. 82Brazil3.23
  3. 81Namibia3.27
  4. 79Hondurasshared3.28
  5. 79Colombiashared3.28

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 6.85. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since the 2008 compilation

What changed between the 2008 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −17countries joined / left
  • 60values changed, of 62 in both
  • 30 · 30rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burkina Faso+ Botswana+ Chile+ India+ Iran+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mali+ Namibia+ Nicaragua+ Philippines+ Papua New Guinea+ Palestine+ Sudan+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Syria+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Uganda+ Kosovo− Angola− Albania− Australia− Central African Republic− China− Côte d’Ivoire− Egypt− Fiji− Jordan− South Korea− Mexico− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malaysia− Vietnam− Samoa− South Africa

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 2009, from 2009 to 2009.

  • 77 distinct values among 83

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 9.07. 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 83 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 (2009). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2009 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2009

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2009 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2009 compilation?

Ukraine, at 9.99, of the 83 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2009 compilation cover?

83.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2009 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%, 2009 compilation the newest?

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

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