NationMaster - Income distribution > Richest 20% (most recent) by country

Rank	Countries	Amount (top to bottom)
#1	Central African Republic:	65%
#2	South Africa:	64.8%
#3	Swaziland:	64.4%
#4	Brazil:	64.1%
#5	Nicaragua:	63.6%
#6	Sierra Leone:	63.4%
#7	Chile:	61%
#8	Colombia:	60.9%
#9	Paraguay:	60.7%
#10	Guatemala:	60.6%
#11	Burkina Faso:	60.4%
#12	Lesotho:	60.1%
#13	Honduras:	59.4%
#14	Guinea-Bissau:	58.9%
#15	Mexico:	57.4%
#16	Zambia:	56.6%
#17	Papua New Guinea:	56.5%
#18	El Salvador:	56.4%
#19	Mali:	56.2%
#20	Nigeria:	55.7%
#21	Zimbabwe:	55.7%
#22	Gambia, The:	55.2%
#23	Malaysia:	54.3%
#24	Russia:	53.7%
#25	Dominican Republic:	53.3%
#26	Niger:	53.3%
#27	Venezuela:	53.2%
#28	Cameroon:	53.1%
#29	Panama:	52.8%
#30	Philippines:	52.3%
#31	Peru:	51.2%
#32	Kenya:	51.2%
#33	Costa Rica:	51%
#34	Armenia:	50.6%
#35	Ecuador:	49.7%
#36	Bolivia:	49.1%
#37	Uzbekistan:	49.1%
#38	Thailand:	48.4%
#39	Saint Lucia:	48.3%
#40	Uruguay:	48.3%
#41	Senegal:	48.2%
#42	Burundi:	48%
#43	Tunisia:	47.9%
#44	Ethiopia:	47.7%
#45	Turkey:	47.7%
#46	Cambodia:	47.6%
#47	Turkmenistan:	47.5%
#48	Guinea:	47.2%
#49	Guyana:	46.9%
#50	Ghana:	46.7%
#51	China:	46.6%
#52	Morocco:	46.6%
#53	Mozambique:	46.5%
#54	United States:	46.4%
#55	India:	46.1%
#56	Jamaica:	46%
#57	Trinidad and Tobago:	45.9%
#58	Estonia:	45.1%
#59	Laos:	45%
#60	Uganda:	44.9%
#61	Madagascar:	44.8%
#62	Nepal:	44.8%
#63	Vietnam:	44.5%
#64	Jordan:	44.4%
#65	Israel:	44.2%
#66	Cote d'Ivoire:	44.2%
#67	Mauritania:	44.1%
#68	Georgia:	43.6%
#69	Portugal:	43.4%
#70	Azerbaijan:	43.3%
#71	United Kingdom:	43.2%
#72	Ireland:	42.9%
#73	Bangladesh:	42.8%
#74	Sri Lanka:	42.8%
#75	Algeria:	42.6%
#76	Kyrgyzstan:	42.5%
#77	Kazakhstan:	42.3%
#78	Australia:	41.3%
#79	Yemen:	41.2%
#80	Indonesia:	41.1%
#81	Pakistan:	41.1%
#82	Mongolia:	40.9%
#83	Lithuania:	40.3%
#84	Latvia:	40.3%
#85	Greece:	40.3%
#86	Switzerland:	40.3%
#87	Spain:	40.3%
#88	France:	40.2%
#89	Netherlands:	40.1%
#90	Tajikistan:	40%
#91	Poland:	39.7%
#92	Romania:	39.4%
#93	Canada:	39.3%
#94	Korea, South:	39.3%
#95	Rwanda:	39.1%
#96	Egypt:	39%
#97	Germany:	38.5%
#98	Austria:	38%
#99	Croatia:	38%
#100	Ukraine:	37.8%
#101	Slovenia:	37.7%
#102	Belgium:	37.3%
#103	Bulgaria:	36.8%
#104	Luxembourg:	36.5%
#105	Italy:	36.3%
#106	Czech Republic:	35.9%
#107	Finland:	35.8%
#108	Norway:	35.8%
#109	Japan:	35.6%
#110	Denmark:	34.5%
#111	Sweden:	34.5%
#112	Hungary:	34.4%
#113	Belarus:	33.3%
#114	Slovakia:	31.4%
	Weighted average:	46.7%

DEFINITION: Share of income or consumption (%). The distribution of income is typically more unequal than the distribution of consumption.

SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC

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