NationMaster - Income share held by highest 20% (most recent) by country

DEFINITION
Percentage share of income or consumption is the share that accrues to subgroups of population indicated by deciles or quintiles. Percentage shares by quintile may not sum to 100 because of rounding.

Economy Statistics > Income share held by highest 20% (most recent) by country

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Rank

Countries

Amount (top to bottom)

Date

Namibia:

78.68 %

1993 ...

Lesotho:

66.49 %

1995 ...

Botswana:

65.06 %

1993 ...

Central African Republic:

64.98 %

1993 ...

Sierra Leone:

63.4 %

1989 ...

Haiti:

63.36 %

2001 ...

Bolivia:

62.96 %

2002 ...

Colombia:

62.67 %

2003 ...

South Africa:

62.18 %

2000 ...

#10

Paraguay:

61.86 %

2003 ...

#11

Brazil:

61.12 %

2004 ...

#12

Chile:

59.97 %

2003 ...

#13

Panama:

59.88 %

2003 ...

#14

Guatemala:

59.5 %

2002 ...

#15

Honduras:

58.28 %

2003 ...

#16

Ecuador:

58.02 %

1998 ...

#17

Peru:

56.71 %

2003 ...

#18

Dominican Republic:

56.7 %

2004 ...

#19

Papua New Guinea:

56.5 %

1996 ...

#20

Swaziland:

56.25 %

2001 ...

#21

El Salvador:

55.92 %

2002 ...

#22

Zimbabwe:

55.74 %

1996 ...

#23

Argentina:

55.42 %

2004 ...

#24

Zambia:

55.1 %

2004 ...

#25

Mexico:

55.07 %

2004 ...

#26

Nepal:

54.56 %

2004 ...

#27

Malaysia:

54.34 %

1997 ...

#28

Costa Rica:

54.09 %

2003 ...

#29

Mozambique:

53.55 %

2002 ...

#30

Madagascar:

53.5 %

2001 ...

#31

Guinea-Bissau:

53.43 %

1993 ...

#32

Gambia, The:

53.43 %

1998 ...

#33

Niger:

53.28 %

1995 ...

#34

Rwanda:

53.02 %

2000 ...

#35

Uganda:

52.51 %

2002 ...

#36

Venezuela:

52.14 %

2003 ...

#37

China:

51.86 %

2004 ...

#38

Jamaica:

51.63 %

2004 ...

#39

Cameroon:

50.93 %

2001 ...

#40

Hong Kong:

50.75 %

1996 ...

#41

Côte d'Ivoire:

50.72 %

2002 ...

#42

Philippines:

50.63 %

2003 ...

#43

Uruguay:

50.45 %

2003 ...

#44

Iran:

49.89 %

1998 ...

#45

Guyana:

49.69 %

1999 ...

#46

Turkey:

49.66 %

2003 ...

#47

Cambodia:

49.59 %

2004 ...

#48

Nicaragua:

49.3 %

2001 ...

#49

Nigeria:

49.17 %

2003 ...

#50

Kenya:

49.11 %

1997 ...

#51

Thailand:

49.02 %

2002 ...

#52

Singapore:

48.97 %

1998 ...

#53

Senegal:

48.41 %

2001 ...

#54

Saint Lucia:

48.34 %

1995 ...

#55

Burundi:

48.02 %

1998 ...

#56

Sri Lanka:

47.95 %

2002 ...

#57

Turkmenistan:

47.46 %

1998 ...

#58

Tunisia:

47.32 %

2000 ...

#59

Burkina Faso:

47.21 %

2003 ...

#60

Mali:

46.65 %

2001 ...

#61

Russia:

46.63 %

2002 ...

#62

Malawi:

46.61 %

2004 ...

#63

Morocco:

46.6 %

1999 ...

#64

Ghana:

46.59 %

1998 ...

#65

Georgia:

46.36 %

2003 ...

#66

Jordan:

46.26 %

2003 ...

#67

Guinea:

46.12 %

2003 ...

#68

Portugal:

45.87 %

1997 ...

#69

United States:

45.82 %

2000 ...

#70

Mauritania:

45.69 %

2000 ...

#71

Macedonia, Republic of:

45.52 %

2003 ...

#72

India:

45.34 %

2004 ...

#73

Israel:

44.93 %

2001 ...

#74

Trinidad and Tobago:

44.91 %

1992 ...

#75

Latvia:

44.72 %

2003 ...

#76

Uzbekistan:

44.69 %

2003 ...

#77

Azerbaijan:

44.5 %

2001 ...

#78

Benin:

44.45 %

2003 ...

#79

Vietnam:

44.33 %

2004 ...

#80

United Kingdom:

44.02 %

1999 ...

#81

New Zealand:

43.76 %

1997 ...

#82

Egypt:

43.59 %

2000 ...

#83

Laos:

43.3 %

2002 ...

#84

Indonesia:

43.29 %

2002 ...

#85

Lithuania:

43.22 %

2003 ...

#86

Estonia:

42.84 %

2003 ...

#87

Armenia:

42.83 %

2003 ...

#88

Bangladesh:

42.7 %

2000 ...

#89

Algeria:

42.6 %

1995 ...

#90

Tanzania:

42.35 %

2000 ...

#91

Poland:

42.25 %

2002 ...

#92

Ireland:

42.05 %

2000 ...

#93

Italy:

42.02 %

2000 ...

#94

Spain:

42 %

2000 ...

#95

Greece:

41.49 %

2000 ...

#96

Kazakhstan:

41.48 %

2003 ...

#97

Belgium:

41.38 %

2000 ...

#98

Moldova:

41.37 %

2003 ...

#99

Switzerland:

41.33 %

2000 ...

#100

Australia:

41.32 %

1994 ...

#101

Yemen:

41.16 %

1998 ...

#102

Tajikistan:

40.84 %

2003 ...

#103

Mongolia:

40.48 %

2002 ...

#104

Pakistan:

40.33 %

2002 ...

#105

France:

40.21 %

1995 ...

#106

Canada:

39.94 %

2000 ...

#107

Croatia:

39.62 %

2001 ...

#108

Albania:

39.51 %

2004 ...

#109

Ethiopia:

39.42 %

2000 ...

#110

Kyrgyzstan:

39.41 %

2003 ...

#111

Romania:

39.24 %

2003 ...

#112

Luxembourg:

38.85 %

2000 ...

#113

Netherlands:

38.68 %

1999 ...

#114

Serbia and Montenegro:

38.39 %

2003 ...

#115

Belarus:

38.31 %

2002 ...

#116

Bulgaria:

38.27 %

2003 ...

#117

Austria:

37.79 %

2000 ...

#118

Ukraine:

37.53 %

2003 ...

#119

Korea, South:

37.45 %

1998 ...

#120

Norway:

37.23 %

2000 ...

#121

Germany:

36.88 %

2000 ...

#122

Finland:

36.7 %

2000 ...

#123

Sweden:

36.63 %

2000 ...

#124

Hungary:

36.55 %

2002 ...

#125

Czech Republic:

35.87 %

1996 ...

#126

Denmark:

35.8 %

1997 ...

#127

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

35.77 %

2001 ...

#128

Slovenia:

35.68 %

1998 ...

#129

Japan:

35.65 %

1993 ...

#130

Slovakia:

34.81 %

1996 ...

Weighted average:

47.6 %

DEFINITION: Percentage share of income or consumption is the share that accrues to subgroups of population indicated by deciles or quintiles. Percentage shares by quintile may not sum to 100 because of rounding.

Economy Statistics > Income share held by highest 20% (most recent) by country

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