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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2015 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2015; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2015 compilation covers 87 countries. Ukraine is highest, at 10.02; Namibia is lowest, at 2.75. The middle country reads 7.24. Against the 2014 compilation, 61 values changed (38 up, 23 down), 22 countries joined, 19 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2015

HighestUkraine

10.02

LowestNamibia

2.75

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%, 2015 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%, 2015 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2015 reading10.02consumption2015
2KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2015 reading9.97consumption2015
=3BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2015 reading9.71consumption2015
=3MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2015 reading9.71consumption2015
5CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2015 reading9.66income2015
6SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2015 reading9.56income2015
7KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2015 reading9.53consumption2015
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2015 reading9.51income2015
9KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2015 reading9.48consumption2015
=10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2015 reading9.41income2015
=10FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2015 reading9.41income2015
12PakistanPAKSouthern Asia9.30consumption2015.5
13EgyptEGYNorthern Africa · 2015 reading9.12consumption2015
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2015 reading8.98income2015
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2015 reading8.91income2015
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2015 reading8.62income2015
17MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2015 reading8.54income2015
18SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2015 reading8.50income2015
19ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2015 reading8.22consumption2015
20SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2015 reading8.17income2015
21IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2015 reading8.00income2015
22GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2015 reading7.98income2015
23FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2015 reading7.88income2015
24AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2015 reading7.87income2015
25CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2015 reading7.85income2015

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2015 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Ukraine10.02
  2. 2Kazakhstan9.97
  3. 3Belarusshared9.71
  4. 3Moldovashared9.71
  5. 5Czechia9.66

Lowest

  1. 87Namibia2.75
  2. 86Zambia3.14
  3. 85Benin3.35
  4. 84Colombia3.42
  5. 83Panama3.44

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.24. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since the 2014 compilation

What changed between the 2014 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −19countries joined / left
  • 61values changed, of 65 in both
  • 38 · 23rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Botswana+ Chile+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cabo Verde+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Saint Lucia+ Myanmar+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Zambia− Argentina− Australia− Burkina Faso− Cameroon− Comoros− Guatemala− South Korea− Liberia− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Niger− Nicaragua− Sudan− Timor-Leste− Vietnam− Yemen− 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 2015, from 2015 to 2015.

  • 78 distinct values among 87

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 3 countries share 5.58. 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.

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Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2015). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2015 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2015

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2015 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2015 compilation?

Ukraine, at 10.02, of the 87 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2015 compilation cover?

87.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2015 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%, 2015 compilation the newest?

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

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