Brazil vs Peru: Gini coefficient: World Inequality Database vs. World Bank

Brazil

0.6497

in 2022

Peru

0.6536

in 2022

Brazil rank

5th

Peru rank

4th

Gini coefficient: World Inequality Database vs. World Bank over time

Brazil
Peru

How they compare

Peru currently reports 0.6536 against 0.6497 in Brazil, a difference of 0.0039.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2002 it was Peru ahead.

Brazil ranks 5th and Peru ranks 4th of 109 countries.

Individual pages

Gini coefficient: World Inequality Database vs. World Bank in Brazil
Gini coefficient: World Inequality Database vs. World Bank in Peru
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Gini coefficient: World Inequality Database vs. World Bank
Source: World Inequality Database (WID.world) (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 109 places, 2,196 data points, 1913–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The Gini coefficient measures inequality on a scale from 0 to 1. Higher values indicate higher inequality. Inequality is measured here in terms of income after taxes and benefits.