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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2018 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2018; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2018 compilation covers 94 countries. 2 countries share the highest reading, 10.18; Kosovo is lowest, at 3.01. The middle country reads 7.09. Against the 2017 compilation, 65 values changed (34 up, 31 down), 27 countries joined, 12 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2018

Highest2 countries share it

10.18

LowestKosovo

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%, 2018 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%, 2018 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
=1CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2018 reading10.18income2018
=1MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2018 reading10.18consumption2018
3SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2018 reading10.10income2018
4BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2018 reading10.06consumption2018
5KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2018 reading9.89consumption2018
=6KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2018 reading9.85consumption2018
=6UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2018 reading9.85consumption2018
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia9.61consumption2018.5
9FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2018 reading9.34income2018
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2018 reading9.28income2018
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2018 reading9.16income2018
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2018 reading8.91income2018
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2018 reading8.89income2018
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2018 reading8.88income2018
15SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2018 reading8.84income2018
16IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2018 reading8.73income2018
17MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2018 reading8.58income2018
18GuineaGINWestern Africa8.50consumption2018.5
19CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2018 reading8.39income2018
20TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2018 reading8.28income2018
=21PolandPOLEastern Europe · 2018 reading8.19income2018
=21United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia · 2018 reading8.19income2018
23ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2018 reading8.11consumption2018
24EstoniaESTNorthern Europe · 2018 reading8.06income2018
25FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2018 reading8.04income2018

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2018 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Czechiashared10.18
  2. 1Moldovashared10.18
  3. 3Slovenia10.10
  4. 4Belarus10.06
  5. 5Kyrgyzstan9.89

Lowest

  1. 94Kosovo3.01
  2. 93Brazil3.12
  3. 92Honduras3.38
  4. 91Colombia3.48
  5. 90Panama3.58

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.09. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since the 2017 compilation

What changed between the 2017 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +27 / −12countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 67 in both
  • 34 · 31rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ United Arab Emirates+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Bhutan− Chile− Djibouti− Egypt− Gabon− Hungary− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mauritius− Qatar− São Tomé and Príncipe− 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 2018, from 2018 to 2018.

  • 87 distinct values among 94

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 10.18. 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 94 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 (2018). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2018 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2018

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2018 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2018 compilation?

2 countries share the highest reading, 10.18, so no single country is named.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2018 compilation cover?

94.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2018 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%, 2018 compilation the newest?

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

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