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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2017 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2017; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2017 compilation covers 79 countries. Czechia is highest, at 10.20; Brazil is lowest, at 3.20. The middle country reads 6.81. Against the 2016 compilation, 67 values changed (42 up, 25 down), 11 countries joined, 16 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2017

HighestCzechia

10.20

LowestBrazil

3.20

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%, 2017 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 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2017 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2017 reading10.20income2017
2SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2017 reading10.01income2017
3MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2017 reading9.98consumption2017
4BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2017 reading9.93consumption2017
5KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2017 reading9.89consumption2017
6UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2017 reading9.82consumption2017
7KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2017 reading9.80consumption2017
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2017 reading9.70income2017
9FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2017 reading9.37income2017
10SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2017 reading9.36income2017
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2017 reading9.13income2017
12EgyptEGYNorthern Africa8.97consumption2017.75
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2017 reading8.89income2017
14MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia · 2017 reading8.85consumption2017
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2017 reading8.82income2017
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2017 reading8.69income2017
17MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2017 reading8.50income2017
18ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2017 reading8.38consumption2017
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2017 reading8.37income2017
20CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2017 reading8.35income2017
21PolandPOLEastern Europe · 2017 reading8.31income2017
22SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2017 reading8.29income2017
23TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2017 reading8.25income2017
24FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2017 reading8.11income2017
25EstoniaESTNorthern Europe · 2017 reading8.07income2017

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2017 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Czechia10.20
  2. 2Slovenia10.01
  3. 3Moldova9.98
  4. 4Belarus9.93
  5. 5Kyrgyzstan9.89

Lowest

  1. 79Brazil3.20
  2. 78Honduras3.42
  3. 77Panama3.45
  4. 76Kosovo3.48
  5. 75Colombia3.61

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 6.81. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since the 2016 compilation

What changed between the 2016 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +11 / −16countries joined / left
  • 67values changed, of 68 in both
  • 42 · 25rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Myanmar+ Mauritius+ Qatar+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Barbados− Ghana− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Malawi− Palestine− Rwanda− South Sudan− Eswatini− 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 2017, from 2017 to 2017.

  • 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 79 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 (2017). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2017 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2017

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2017 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2017 compilation?

Czechia, at 10.20, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2017 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2017 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%, 2017 compilation the newest?

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

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