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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2013 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2013; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2013 compilation covers 78 countries. Ukraine is highest, at 10.28; Colombia is lowest, at 3.21. The middle country reads 6.78. Against the 2012 compilation, 66 values changed (36 up, 30 down), 12 countries joined, 21 left.

Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2013

HighestUkraine

10.28

LowestColombia

3.21

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%, 2013 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 78 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2013 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2013 reading10.28consumption2013
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2013 reading9.87income2013
3KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2013 reading9.82consumption2013
4KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2013 reading9.69consumption2013
5BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2013 reading9.54consumption2013
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia9.50consumption2013.5
7CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2013 reading9.45income2013
=8FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2013 reading9.31income2013
=8NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2013 reading9.31income2013
10KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2013 reading9.30consumption2013
11SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2013 reading9.19income2013
12MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2013 reading9.15consumption2013
13DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2013 reading9.10income2013
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2013 reading8.91income2013
15ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2013 reading8.63consumption2013
16MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2013 reading8.62income2013
17BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2013 reading8.56income2013
18SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2013 reading8.27income2013
19GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2013 reading8.16income2013
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2013 reading8.11income2013
21SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2013 reading8.07income2013
22FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2013 reading8.00income2013
23TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2013 reading7.98income2013
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2013 reading7.94income2013
25United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2013 reading7.73income2013

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2013 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Ukraine10.28
  2. 2Iceland9.87
  3. 3Kazakhstan9.82
  4. 4Kosovo9.69
  5. 5Belarus9.54

Lowest

  1. 78Colombia3.21
  2. 77Panama3.35
  3. 76Honduras3.45
  4. 75Brazil3.48
  5. 74Bolivia3.57

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 6.78. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since the 2012 compilation

What changed between the 2012 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −21countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 66 in both
  • 36 · 30rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ United Arab Emirates+ Burundi+ Chile+ Fiji+ Micronesia+ Morocco+ Malaysia+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ Seychelles+ Taiwan+ Samoa− Albania− Bhutan− DR Congo− Egypt− Ghana− Guinea− Haiti− Iraq− South Korea− Laos− Sri Lanka− Madagascar− Mexico− Mongolia− Mauritius− Nigeria− Nauru− Philippines− Solomon Islands− Uganda− Vietnam

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 2013, from 2013 to 2013.

  • 76 distinct values among 78

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 9.31. 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 better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 78 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 (2013). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2013 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2013

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2013 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2013 compilation?

Ukraine, at 10.28, of the 78 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2013 compilation cover?

78.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2013 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%, 2013 compilation the newest?

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

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