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Global Gini index (Distribution of family income) ranking by country
All data from the CIA World Factbook. Last updated Jan 25, 2010.
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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 richest. The index is the ratio of (a) the area between a country's Lorenz curve and the 45 degree helping line to (b) the entire triangular area under the 45 degree line. The more nearly equal a country's income distribution, the closer its Lorenz curve to the 45 degree line and the lower its Gini index, e.g., a Scandinavian country with an index of 25. The more unequal a country's income distribution, the farther its Lorenz curve from the 45 degree line and the higher its Gini index, e.g., a Sub-Saharan country with an index of 50. If income were distributed with perfect equality, the Lorenz curve would coincide with the 45 degree line and the index would be zero; if income were distributed with perfect inequality, the Lorenz curve would coincide with the horizontal axis and the right vertical axis and the index would be 100. |
Rank |
country |
Distribution of family income - Gini index |
Date of Information |
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6 |
Central African Republic |
61.3 |
1993
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11 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
56.2 |
2007
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19 |
Papua New Guinea |
50.9 |
1996
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25 |
Dominican Republic |
49.9 |
2005
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27 |
Argentina |
49.0 |
January-March 2007
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44 |
United States |
45.0 |
2007
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46 |
Cote d'Ivoire |
44.6 |
2002
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52 |
Cambodia |
43.0 |
2007 est.
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56 |
Russia |
41.5 |
September 2008
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59 |
Turkmenistan |
40.8 |
1998
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61 |
Morocco |
40.0 |
2005 est.
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62 |
Tunisia |
40.0 |
2005 est.
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64 |
Burkina Faso |
39.5 |
2007
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69 |
Mauritius |
39.0 |
2006 est.
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92 |
United Kingdom |
34.0 |
2005
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105 |
Korea, South |
31.3 |
2007
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106 |
European Union |
31.0 |
2005 est.
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108 |
Netherlands |
30.9 |
2007
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110 |
Pakistan |
30.6 |
FY07/08
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129 |
Czech Republic |
26.0 |
2005
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CONTENTS
RANKINGS
GDP (purchasing power parity)
Population growth
GDP real growth rate
GDP - per capita (PPP)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP
Electricity - production
Electricity - consumption
Airports
Birth rate
Death rate
Exports
Debt - external
Roadways
Imports
Industrial production growth rate
Infant mortality rate
Inflation rate (consumer prices)
Waterways
Labor force
Life expectancy at birth
Merchant marine
Net migration rate
Population
Railways
Total fertility rate
Unemployment rate
Telephones - main lines in use
Telephones - mobile cellular
Internet users
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS - deaths
Distribution of family income - Gini Index
Oil - production
Oil - consumption
Oil - imports
Oil - exports
Oil - proved reserves
Natural gas - proved reserves
Natural gas - production
Natural gas - consumption
Natural gas - imports
Natural gas - exports
Internet hosts
Investment (gross fixed)
Public debt
Current account balance
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad
Market value of publicly traded shares
Education expenditures
Central bank discount rate
Commercial bank prime lending rate
Stock of money
Stock of quasi money
Stock of domestic credit
COMMODITY DATA
Energy:
Coal, Australia |
Crude oil, Brent |
Crude oil, Dubai |
Crude oil, avg, spot |
Crude oil, West Texas Int. |
Natural gas LNG, Japan |
Natural gas, Europe |
Natural gas Index |
Natural gas, US
Fertilizers: DAP |
Phosphate rock |
Pottasium chloride |
TSP |
Urea, E. Europe, bulk
Metals and Minerals Aluminum |
Copper |
Gold |
Iron ore |
Lead |
Nickel |
Silver |
Steel cr coilsheet |
Steel hr coilsheet |
Steel products (8) index |
Steel, rebar |
Steel wire rod |
Tin |
Zinc
Non Energy Commodities / Agriculture / Beverages: Cocoa |
Coffee, Arabica |
Coffee, robusta |
Tea, auctions (3), average |
Tea, Colombo auctions |
Tea, Kolkata auctions |
Tea, Mombasa auctions
Non Energy Commodities / Food / Fats and oils Coconut oil |
Copra |
Groundnut oil |
Palm oil |
Palmkernel oil |
Soybeans |
Soybean meal |
Soybean oil
Non Energy Commodities / Food / Grains Barley |
Maize |
Rice, Thailand, 5% |
Rice, Thailand, 25% |
Rice, Thailand, 35% |
Rice,Thai, A1.Special |
Sorghum |
Wheat, Canada |
Wheat, US, HRW |
Wheat US SRW
Non Energy Commodities / Food / Other food Bananas EU |
Bananas US |
Beef |
Chicken meat |
Fishmeal |
Lamb |
Oranges |
Shrimp, Mexico |
Sugar EU domestic |
Sugar US domestic |
Sugar, world
Raw Materials / Other Cotton Memphis |
Cotton A Index |
Rubber, Singapore |
Rubber, US
Raw Materials / Timber Logs, Cameroon |
Logs, Malaysia |
Plywood |
Sawnwood, Cameroon |
Sawnwood, Malaysia |
Woodpulp
World Bank commodity price indices Agriculture Index |
Beverages Index |
Non-energy Commodities Index |
Energy Index |
Fats and Oils Index |
Fertilizers Index |
Food Index |
Grains Index |
Metals Index |
Other raw materials index |
Other food index |
Raw Materials Index |
Timber Index |
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