NationMaster - Distribution of family income > Gini index (most recent) by country

Rank	Countries	Amount (top to bottom)
#1	Namibia:	70.7
#2	Lesotho:	63.2
#3	Botswana:	63
#4	Sierra Leone:	62.9
#5	Central African Republic:	61.3
#6	Bolivia:	60.6
#7	Guatemala:	59.9
#8	South Africa:	59.3
#9	Paraguay:	56.8
#10	Zimbabwe:	56.8
#11	Brazil:	56.7
#12	Panama:	56.4
#13	Nicaragua:	55.1
#14	Honduras:	55
#15	Mexico:	54.6
#16	Colombia:	53.8
#17	Chile:	53.8
#18	Zambia:	52.6
#19	El Salvador:	52.5
#20	Hong Kong:	52.3
#21	Thailand:	51.1
#22	Papua New Guinea:	50.9
#23	Nigeria:	50.6
#24	Niger:	50.5
#25	Mali:	50.5
#26	Malawi:	50.3
#27	Sri Lanka:	50
#28	Peru:	49.8
#29	Venezuela:	49.1
#30	Argentina:	48.3
#31	Burkina Faso:	48.2
#32	Madagascar:	47.5
#33	Dominican Republic:	47.4
#34	Costa Rica:	46.5
#35	Malaysia:	46.1
#36	Philippines:	46.1
#37	Uruguay:	45.2
#38	Côte d'Ivoire:	45.2
#39	United States:	45
#40	Cameroon:	44.6
#41	Kenya:	44.5
#42	China:	44
#43	Mongolia:	44
#44	Uganda:	43
#45	Iran:	43
#46	Singapore:	42.5
#47	Ecuador:	42
#48	Turkey:	42
#49	Senegal:	41.3
#50	Pakistan:	41
#51	Armenia:	41
#52	Turkmenistan:	40.8
#53	Russia:	40.5
#54	Tunisia:	40
#55	Cambodia:	40
#56	Morocco:	40
#57	Mozambique:	39.6
#58	Mauritania:	39
#59	Israel:	38.6
#60	Portugal:	38.5
#61	Tanzania:	38.2
#62	Jamaica:	38.1
#63	Japan:	38.1
#64	Guinea:	38.1
#65	East Timor:	38
#66	Georgia:	38
#67	Nepal:	37.7
#68	Laos:	37
#69	Mauritius:	37
#70	United Kingdom:	36.8
#71	Azerbaijan:	36.5
#72	Jordan:	36.4
#73	New Zealand:	36.2
#74	Vietnam:	36.1
#75	Italy:	36
#76	Ireland:	35.9
#77	Korea, South:	35.8
#78	Algeria:	35.3
#79	Australia:	35.2
#80	Greece:	35.1
#81	Latvia:	35
#82	Indonesia:	34.8
#83	Tajikistan:	34.7
#84	Egypt:	34.4
#85	Poland:	34.1
#86	Yemen:	33.4
#87	Burundi:	33.3
#88	Moldova:	33.2
#89	Switzerland:	33.1
#90	Canada:	33.1
#91	Estonia:	33
#92	Lithuania:	32.5
#93	India:	32.5
#94	Spain:	32.5
#95	Bangladesh:	31.8
#96	Bulgaria:	31.6
#97	Kazakhstan:	31.5
#98	Austria:	31
#99	Ukraine:	31
#100	Netherlands:	30.9
#101	Belarus:	30.4
#102	Ghana:	30
#103	Ethiopia:	30
#104	Croatia:	29
#105	Kyrgyzstan:	29
#106	Rwanda:	28.9
#107	Romania:	28.8
#108	Slovenia:	28.4
#109	Germany:	28.3
#110	Macedonia, Republic of:	28.2
#111	Czech Republic:	27.3
#112	Hungary:	26.9
#113	Finland:	26.9
#114	Uzbekistan:	26.8
#115	Albania:	26.7
#116	France:	26.7
#117	Bosnia and Herzegovina:	26.2
#118	Slovakia:	25.8
#119	Norway:	25.8
#120	Belgium:	25
#121	Sweden:	25
#122	Denmark:	23.2
	Weighted average:	40.5

DEFINITION: This index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country. The index is calculated from the Lorenz curve, in which cumulative family income is plotted against the number of families arranged from the poorest to the ric

SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007

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Ross Sharp 5th December 2005	I totally disagree with the assumption that Germany currently holds the highest unemployment rate. Accoriding to my calculations, France currently holds the highest unemployment rate.
Holme (Denmark) 28th May 2007	I have looked all around the Web for Giniu values for Iceland. Do anyone know is it has ever been calculated?

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