Distribution of family income - Gini index

Distribution of family income - Gini index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country. The more nearly equal a country's income distribution, the lower its Gini index, e.g., a Scandinavian country with an index of 25. The more unequal a country's income distribution, the higher its Gini index, e.g., a Sub-Saharan country with an index of 50. If income were distributed with perfect equality the index would be zero; if income were distributed with perfect inequality, the index would be 100.

Rank Order Listing for the Distribution of family income - Gini index field
Rank	Country	Distribution of family income - Gini index	Date of Information
1	Lesotho	63.2	1995
2	South Africa	62.5	2013 est.
3	Micronesia, Federated States of	61.1	2013 est.
4	Haiti	60.8	2012
5	Botswana	60.5	2009
6	Namibia	59.7	2010
7	Zambia	57.5	2013
8	Comoros	55.9	2004 est.
9	Hong Kong	53.9	2016
10	Guatemala	53.0	2014 est.
11	Paraguay	51.7	2014
12	Colombia	51.1	2015
13	Papua New Guinea	50.9	1996
14	Panama	50.7	2014 est.
15	Chile	50.5	2013
16	Eswatini	50.4	2001
17	Rwanda	50.4	2013 est.
18	Gambia, The	50.2	1998
19	Brazil	49.0	2014
20	Congo, Republic of the	48.9	2011 est.
21	Nigeria	48.8	2013
22	Costa Rica	48.5	2014
23	Kenya	48.5	2016 est.
24	Mexico	48.2	2014
25	Dominican Republic	47.1	2013 est.
26	Honduras	47.1	2014
27	Nicaragua	47.1	2014
28	Bolivia	47.0	2016 est.
29	Seychelles	46.8	2013 est.
30	Cameroon	46.5	2014 est.
31	China	46.5	2016 est.
32	Malaysia	46.2	2009
33	Malawi	46.1	2010
34	South Sudan	46.0	2010 est.
35	Togo	46.0	2011
36	Ecuador	45.9	December 2017
37	Saudi Arabia	45.9	2013 est.
38	Singapore	45.9	2017
39	Mozambique	45.6	2008
40	Peru	45.3	2012
41	United States	45.0	2007
42	Guyana	44.6	2007
43	Iran	44.5	2006
44	Thailand	44.5	2015
45	Philippines	44.4	2015 est.
46	Central African Republic	43.6	2003 est.
47	Chad	43.3	2011 est.
48	Zimbabwe	43.2	2011 est.
49	Israel	42.8	2013
50	Angola	42.7	2008 est.
51	Burundi	42.4	1998
52	Gabon	42.2	2005 est.
53	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	42.1	2012 est.
54	Argentina	41.7	2017 est.
55	Uruguay	41.6	2014
56	Cote d'Ivoire	41.5	2008
57	Russia	41.2	2015
58	Qatar	41.1	2007
59	Madagascar	41.0	2012
60	Djibouti	40.9	2002
61	Morocco	40.9	2007 est.
62	Turkmenistan	40.8	1998
63	Senegal	40.3	2011
64	Bulgaria	40.2	2017
65	Turkey	40.2	2010
66	Georgia	40.1	2014
67	Mali	40.1	2001
68	Tunisia	40.0	2005 est.
69	Jordan	39.7	2007
70	Burkina Faso	39.5	2007
71	Uganda	39.5	2013
72	Guinea	39.4	2007
73	Sri Lanka	39.2	2012 est.
74	Venezuela	39.0	2011
75	Bhutan	38.8	2012
76	Serbia	38.7	2014 est.
77	Maldives	38.4	2009 est.
78	Cambodia	37.9	2008 est.
79	Japan	37.9	2011
80	Lithuania	37.9	2015
81	Yemen	37.9	2009 est.
82	Tanzania	37.6	2007
83	Mauritania	37.0	2014
84	Indonesia	36.8	2009
85	Uzbekistan	36.8	2003
86	Greece	36.7	2012 est.
87	Laos	36.7	2008
88	Benin	36.5	2003
89	New Zealand	36.2	1997
90	El Salvador	36.0	2016 est.
91	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	36.0	2015
92	Mauritius	35.9	2012 est.
93	Spain	35.9	2012
94	Korea, South	35.7	2016 est.
95	Algeria	35.3	1995
96	India	35.2	2011
97	Jamaica	35.0	2016
98	Macau	35.0	2013
99	Cyprus	34.8	2014 est.
100	Estonia	34.8	2015
101	Vietnam	34.8	2014
102	Latvia	34.5	2015
103	West Bank	34.5	2009 est.
104	Mongolia	34.0	2017
105	Niger	34.0	2014
106	Sierra Leone	34.0	2011
107	Greenland	33.9	2015 est.
108	Portugal	33.9	2015 est.
109	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33.8	2011
110	Azerbaijan	33.7	2008
111	Macedonia	33.7	2015
112	Taiwan	33.6	2014
113	Kyrgyzstan	33.4	2007
114	Ethiopia	33.0	2011
115	Nepal	32.8	2010
116	Tajikistan	32.6	2006
117	United Kingdom	32.4	2012
118	Bangladesh	32.1	2010
119	Canada	32.1	2005
120	Liberia	32.0	2014
121	Italy	31.9	2012 est.
122	Montenegro	31.9	2014 est.
123	Timor-Leste	31.9	2007 est.
124	Egypt	31.8	2015
125	Armenia	31.5	2014
126	Ireland	31.3	2013 est.
127	Croatia	30.8	2015 est.
128	Poland	30.8	2015
129	Sao Tome and Principe	30.8	2010 est.
130	Pakistan	30.7	FY2013
131	Austria	30.5	2015
132	Luxembourg	30.4	2013 est.
133	Australia	30.3	2008
134	Netherlands	30.3	2015 est.
135	Switzerland	29.5	2014 est.
136	Afghanistan	29.4	2008
137	France	29.3	2016
138	Albania	29.0	2012 est.
139	Denmark	29.0	2016 est.
140	Hungary	28.2	2015 est.
141	Malta	28.1	2015
142	Iceland	28.0	2006
143	Romania	27.3	2012
144	Finland	27.2	2016
145	Germany	27.0	2006
146	Moldova	26.8	2015 est.
147	Norway	26.8	2010
148	Belarus	26.5	2011
149	Kazakhstan	26.3	2013
150	Belgium	25.9	2013 est.
151	Ukraine	25.5	2015
152	Czechia	25.0	2015
153	Sweden	24.9	2013
154	Slovenia	24.4	2016
155	Slovakia	23.7	2015
156	Kosovo	23.2	2015 est.
157	Faroe Islands	22.7	2013 est.
158	Jersey	0.3	2014 est.

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