Income inequality vs. GDP per capita in Paraguay
Paraguay: Income inequality vs. GDP per capita was 0.4425 in 2024. ▼ Falling
Income inequality vs. GDP per capita in Paraguay, 1990–2024
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
Paraguay recorded 0.4425 for income inequality vs. gdp per capita in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and down 12.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Paraguay peaked at 0.5814 in 1995 and was at its lowest, 0.4084, in 1990.
Paraguay ranks 14th of 120 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 28 years of available data.
Income inequality vs. GDP per capita in Paraguay, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 0.4084 | — |
| 1995 | 0.5814 | +42.4% |
| 1997 | 0.5489 | -5.6% |
| 1999 | 0.5457 | -0.6% |
| 2001 | 0.5463 | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 0.5727 | +4.8% |
| 2003 | 0.5494 | -4.1% |
| 2004 | 0.5226 | -4.9% |
| 2005 | 0.5138 | -1.7% |
| 2006 | 0.5299 | +3.1% |
| 2007 | 0.5304 | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 0.507 | -4.4% |
| 2009 | 0.4915 | -3.1% |
| 2010 | 0.5098 | +3.7% |
| 2011 | 0.5231 | +2.6% |
| 2012 | 0.4763 | -8.9% |
| 2013 | 0.4794 | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 0.507 | +5.8% |
| 2015 | 0.4761 | -6.1% |
| 2016 | 0.479 | +0.6% |
| 2017 | 0.4855 | +1.4% |
| 2018 | 0.4596 | -5.3% |
| 2019 | 0.4565 | -0.7% |
| 2020 | 0.4348 | -4.8% |
| 2021 | 0.4291 | -1.3% |
| 2022 | 0.4459 | +3.9% |
| 2023 | 0.4418 | -0.9% |
| 2024 | 0.4425 | +0.2% |
Paraguay compared with similar countries
- Paraguay's 0.4425 is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 0.3588, 1.2× the median. (35 countries reporting)
- Paraguay's 0.4425 is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 0.4447, 99% of the median. (18 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Income inequality vs. GDP per capita in Paraguay changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | +42.4% | 0.4084 | 0.5814 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.5211 | 0.4084 | 0.5814 | 4 |
| 2000s | 0.5293 | 0.4915 | 0.5727 | 9 |
| 2010s | 0.4852 | 0.4565 | 0.5231 | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.4388 | 0.4291 | 0.4459 | 5 |
Countries ranked near Paraguay
More poverty & inequality data for Paraguay
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 9 surveys (2025)
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via 0 surveys per person (2025)
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via 0 surveys per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 2.42 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 4,482 kg per hectare (2023)
- Cereal yield vs extreme poverty, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2023)
- Cereal yield vs extreme poverty, annual growth rate 27.88 % change on previous year (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, gaps filled 11.33 (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 11.3% (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Paraguay?
- Income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Paraguay was 0.4425 in 2024, according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest income inequality vs. gdp per capita recorded in Paraguay?
- The highest recorded value was 0.5814 in 1995.
- What is the lowest income inequality vs. gdp per capita recorded in Paraguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.4084 in 1990.
- How does Paraguay rank for income inequality vs. gdp per capita?
- Paraguay ranks 14th out of 120 countries with data for 2024.
- Is income inequality vs. gdp per capita rising or falling in Paraguay?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Paraguay data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Income inequality vs. GDP per capita. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The Gini coefficient measures inequality on a scale from 0 to 1. Higher values indicate higher inequality.