Economy > GINI index: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income (or, in some cases, consumption expenditure) among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution. A Lorenz curve plots the cumulative percentages of total income received against the cumulative number of recipients, starting with the poorest individual or household. The Gini index measures the area between the Lorenz curve and a hypothetical line of absolute equality, expressed as a percentage of the maximum area under the line. Thus a Gini index of 0 represents perfect equality, while an index of 100 implies perfect inequality.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Namibia	74.33	1993
2	Lesotho	63.2	1995
3	Sierra Leone	62.9	1989
4	Central African Republic	61.33	1993
5	Botswana	60.51	1993
6	Bolivia	60.05	2002
7	Haiti	59.21	2001
8	Colombia	58.62	2003
9	Paraguay	58.36	2003
10	South Africa	57.78	2000
11	Brazil	56.99	2004
12	Panama	56.08	2003
13	Guatemala	55.13	2002
14	Chile	54.92	2003
15	Honduras	53.84	2003
16	Ecuador	53.55	1998
17	El Salvador	52.36	2002
18	Peru	52.02	2003
19	Dominican Republic	51.64	2004
20	Argentina	51.32	2004
21	Papua New Guinea	50.9	1996
22	Zambia	50.8	2004
23	Niger	50.54	1995
24	Swaziland	50.4	2001
25	The Gambia	50.23	1998
26	Zimbabwe	50.1	1996
27	Costa Rica	49.76	2003
28	Malaysia	49.15	1997
29	Venezuela	48.2	2003
30	Madagascar	47.45	2001
31	Mozambique	47.29	2002
32	Nepal	47.17	2004
33	Guinea-Bissau	47.05	1993
34	China	46.9	2004
35	Rwanda	46.79	2000
36	Mexico	46.05	2004
37	Uganda	45.7	2002
38	Jamaica	45.51	2004
39	Uruguay	44.85	2003
40	Cote d'Ivoire	44.58	2002
41	Cameroon	44.56	2001
42	Philippines	44.53	2003
43	Nigeria	43.7	2003
44	Turkey	43.64	2003
45	Hong Kong	43.44	1996
46	Guyana	43.2	1999
47	Nicaragua	43.11	2001
48	Iran	43	1998
49	Saint Lucia	42.58	1995
50	Kenya	42.5	1997
51	Singapore	42.48	1998
52	Burundi	42.39	1998
53	Thailand	41.98	2002
54	Cambodia	41.71	2004
55	Senegal	41.25	2001
56	United States	40.81	2000
57	Ghana	40.79	1998
58	Turkmenistan	40.76	1998
59	Georgia	40.44	2003
60	Sri Lanka	40.17	2002
61	Mali	40.1	2001
62	Russia	39.93	2002
63	Tunisia	39.8	2000
64	Burkina Faso	39.51	2003
65	Morocco	39.5	1999
66	Israel	39.2	2001
67	Mauritania	39.01	2000
68	Malawi	39	2004
69	Trinidad and Tobago	38.88	1992
70	Jordan	38.84	2003
71	Guinea	38.6	2003
72	Portugal	38.45	1997
73	Latvia	37.67	2003
74	India	36.8	2004
75	Uzbekistan	36.77	2003
76	Azerbaijan	36.5	2001
77	Benin	36.48	2003
78	New Zealand	36.17	1997
=79	Lithuania	36.03	2003
=79	Italy	36.03	2000
81	United Kingdom	35.97	1999
82	Estonia	35.8	2003
83	Algeria	35.3	1995
84	Australia	35.19	1994
85	Spain	34.66	2000
86	Laos	34.65	2002
87	Tanzania	34.62	2000
88	Poland	34.47	2002
89	Egypt	34.41	2000
90	Vietnam	34.4	2004
91	Indonesia	34.31	2002
92	Ireland	34.28	2000
93	Greece	34.27	2000
94	Kazakhstan	33.91	2003
95	Armenia	33.77	2003
96	Switzerland	33.68	2000
97	Yemen	33.44	1998
98	Bangladesh	33.4	2000
99	Moldova	33.22	2003
100	Belgium	32.97	2000
101	Mongolia	32.8	2002
102	France	32.74	1995
103	Tajikistan	32.64	2003
104	Canada	32.56	2000
105	South Korea	31.59	1998
106	Albania	31.1	2004
107	Romania	31.05	2003
108	Netherlands	30.9	1999
109	Luxembourg	30.76	2000
110	Pakistan	30.56	2002
111	Kyrgyzstan	30.31	2003
112	Serbia and Montenegro	30.02	2003
113	Ethiopia	29.97	2000
114	Belarus	29.72	2002
115	Bulgaria	29.21	2003
116	Austria	29.15	2000
117	Croatia	29	2001
118	Slovenia	28.41	1998
119	Germany	28.31	2000
120	Ukraine	28.06	2003
121	Finland	26.88	2000
122	Hungary	26.85	2002
123	Bosnia and Herzegovina	26.15	2001
124	Slovakia	25.81	1996
125	Norway	25.79	2000
126	Czech Republic	25.4	1996
127	Sweden	25	2000
128	Japan	24.85	1993
129	Denmark	24.7	1997

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