Brazil vs Colombia: Gini coefficient

Brazil

0.5026

in 2024

Colombia

0.5438

in 2024

Brazil rank

5th

Colombia rank

2nd

Gini coefficient over time

Colombia currently reports 0.5438 against 0.5026 in Brazil, a difference of 0.0412.

That makes Colombia's figure about 1.1 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 24 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Brazil ahead.

Brazil ranks 5th and Colombia ranks 2nd of 120 countries.

Indicator: Gini coefficient
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 120 places, 2,148 data points, 1963–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The Gini coefficient measures inequality on a scale from 0 to 1. Higher values indicate higher inequality.