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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2014 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2014; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2014 compilation covers 84 countries. Ukraine is highest, at 10.46; South Africa is lowest, at 2.83. The middle country reads 7.10. Against the 2013 compilation, 61 values changed (38 up, 23 down), 19 countries joined, 13 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2014

HighestUkraine

10.46

LowestSouth Africa

2.83

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%, 2014 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.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2014 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2014 reading10.46consumption2014
2KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2014 reading10.02consumption2014
3KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2014 reading9.85consumption2014
4MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2014 reading9.72consumption2014
5CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2014 reading9.66income2014
=6FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2014 reading9.44income2014
=6SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2014 reading9.44income2014
8Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia9.42consumption2014.31
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2014 reading9.41income2014
10BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2014 reading9.33consumption2014
11NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2014 reading9.13income2014
12KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2014 reading9.11consumption2014
13DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2014 reading9.10income2014
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2014 reading8.83income2014
15BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2014 reading8.61income2014
16MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2014 reading8.58income2014
17ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2014 reading8.46consumption2014
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2014 reading8.40income2014
19SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2014 reading8.39income2014
20Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2014 reading8.31consumption2014
21MongoliaMNGEastern Asia · 2014 reading8.08consumption2014
22GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2014 reading8.05income2014
23AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2014 reading8.04income2014
24FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2014 reading8.02income2014
25LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2014 reading7.93income2014

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2014 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Ukraine10.46
  2. 2Kyrgyzstan10.02
  3. 3Kazakhstan9.85
  4. 4Moldova9.72
  5. 5Czechia9.66

Lowest

  1. 84South Africa2.83
  2. 83Colombia3.21
  3. 82Panama3.35
  4. 81Brazil3.61
  5. 80Honduras3.66

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.10. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032013 → 2014

Since the 2013 compilation

What changed between the 2013 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +19 / −13countries joined / left
  • 61values changed, of 65 in both
  • 38 · 23rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Australia+ Burkina Faso+ Cameroon+ Comoros+ Guatemala+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Niger+ Nicaragua+ Sudan+ Timor-Leste+ Vietnam+ Yemen+ South Africa− United Arab Emirates− Burundi− Chile− Djibouti− Fiji− Micronesia− Morocco− Malaysia− Pakistan− Rwanda− Seychelles− Taiwan− Samoa

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 2014, from 2014 to 2014.

  • 79 distinct values among 84

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 9.44. 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 84 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 (2014). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2014 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2014

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2014 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2014 compilation?

Ukraine, at 10.46, of the 84 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2014 compilation cover?

84.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2014 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%, 2014 compilation the newest?

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

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