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Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries. Moldova is highest, at 10.32; Kosovo is lowest, at 1.74. The middle country reads 7.21. Against the 2019 compilation, 62 values changed (36 up, 26 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

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Income Share Held by Lowest 20% · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestMoldova

10.32

LowestKosovo

1.74

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%, 2020 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 71 countries · select a heading to sort

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2020 reading10.32consumption2020
2BelarusBLREastern Europe · 2020 reading10.30consumption2020
3SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2020 reading10.25income2020
4ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2020 reading10.23consumption2020
5UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2020 reading10.02consumption2020
6CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2020 reading9.79income2020
7KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2020 reading9.76consumption2020
8FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2020 reading9.55income2020
9BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2020 reading9.38income2020
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2020 reading9.37income2020
11KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2020 reading9.35consumption2020
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2020 reading9.24income2020
13SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2020 reading9.11income2020
14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2020 reading9.01income2020
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2020 reading8.60income2020
16PolandPOLEastern Europe · 2020 reading8.58income2020
17CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2020 reading8.53income2020
18CanadaCANNorthern America · 2020 reading8.48income2020
19AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe · 2020 reading8.45consumption2020
20TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2020 reading8.41income2020
21SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2020 reading8.23income2020
22EstoniaESTNorthern Europe · 2020 reading8.08income2020
23MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2020 reading8.03income2020
24FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2020 reading8.02income2020
25ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2020 reading8.01consumption2020

02In Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2020 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Moldova10.32
  2. 2Belarus10.30
  3. 3Slovenia10.25
  4. 4Armenia10.23
  5. 5Ukraine10.02

Lowest

  1. 71Kosovo1.74
  2. 70Colombia2.74
  3. 69Costa Rica4.03
  4. 68Ecuador4.10
  5. 67Brazil4.48

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.21. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

What changed between the 2019 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −17countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 62 in both
  • 36 · 26rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− 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 2020, from 2020 to 2020.

  • 67 distinct values among 71

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 7.64. 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 71 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 (2020). Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/income-share-lowest-20/2020

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07Questions

Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2020 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest income share of the poorest 20% in Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2020 compilation?

Moldova, at 10.32, of the 71 countries in the file.

How many countries does Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2020 compilation cover?

71.

Where can I download Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, 2020 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%, 2020 compilation the newest?

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

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