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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2012 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2012; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2012 compilation covers 87 countries. Ukraine is highest, at 10.21; Honduras is lowest, at 3.01. The middle country reads 7.01. Against the 2011 compilation, 64 values changed (28 up, 36 down), 22 countries joined, 17 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2012

HighestUkraine

10.21

LowestHonduras

3.01

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%, 2012 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 87 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2012 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2012 reading10.21consumption2012
2EgyptEGYNorthern Africa9.85consumption2012.49
3KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2012 reading9.61consumption2012
4CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2012 reading9.57income2012
5BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2012 reading9.48consumption2012
6FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2012 reading9.45income2012
7SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2012 reading9.44income2012
8KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2012 reading9.43consumption2012
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2012 reading9.42income2012
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2012 reading9.33income2012
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2012 reading9.30income2012
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2012 reading9.13income2012
13ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2012 reading8.99consumption2012
14MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2012 reading8.98consumption2012
15AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe · 2012 reading8.85consumption2012
16KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2012 reading8.83consumption2012
17IraqIRQWestern Asia · 2012 reading8.80consumption2012
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2012 reading8.69income2012
19SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2012 reading8.62income2012
20SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2012 reading8.47income2012
21MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2012 reading8.37income2012
22GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2012 reading8.21income2012
23SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2012 reading8.14income2012
24CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2012 reading7.99income2012
25NauruNRUMicronesia7.97consumption2012.69

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2012 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Ukraine10.21
  2. 2Egypt9.85
  3. 3Kyrgyzstan9.61
  4. 4Czechia9.57
  5. 5Belarus9.48

Lowest

  1. 87Honduras3.01
  2. 85Panamashared3.19
  3. 85Colombiashared3.19
  4. 84Brazil3.36
  5. 83Bolivia3.44

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.01. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since the 2011 compilation

What changed between the 2011 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −17countries joined / left
  • 64values changed, of 65 in both
  • 28 · 36rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Bhutan+ DR Congo+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Ghana+ Guinea+ Haiti+ Iraq+ South Korea+ Laos+ Sri Lanka+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mauritius+ Nigeria+ Nauru+ Philippines+ Solomon Islands+ Serbia+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Chile− Republic of the Congo− Algeria− India− Lebanon− Malaysia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− 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 2012, from 2012 to 2012.

  • 83 distinct values among 87

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 7.56. 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 87 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 (2012). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2012 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2012

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2012 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2012 compilation?

Ukraine, at 10.21, of the 87 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2012 compilation cover?

87.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2012 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%, 2012 compilation the newest?

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

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