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Gini coefficient: World Inequality Database vs. World Bank by country

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.

Countries reporting
106
Highest
0.7154
Iraq
Lowest
0.2199
Iceland
Median
0.5188
Years covered
112
1913–2024
Data points
2,196

What the numbers show

Gini coefficient: World Inequality Database vs. World Bank is currently reported for 106 countries. The highest value is 0.7154 in Iraq; the lowest is 0.2199 in Iceland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.5188, and the mean is 0.4911.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 39 countries rose and 66 fell. The largest increase was in Iraq (up 40.9%), and the largest decrease in Guinea-Bissau (down 22.6%).

Gini coefficient: World Inequality Database vs. World Bank: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Iraq 0.7154 2024 up 40.9% rising
2 Mexico 0.6742 2022 down 5.9% flat
3 South Africa 0.6562 2014 up 10.4% rising
4 Peru 0.6536 2022 up 1.3% falling
5 Brazil 0.6497 2022 up 1.7% falling
6 Colombia 0.6444 2022 up 7.8% falling
7 Zambia 0.6438 2022 down 2.7% flat
8 Botswana 0.6382 2015 down 4.1% flat
9 India 0.621 2022 up 2.0% rising
10 Mozambique 0.6181 2022 down 5.4% falling
11 Uganda 0.618 2019 down 2.3% flat
12 Chile 0.6162 2022 down 11.9% falling
13 Turkey 0.6069 2024 up 5.3% flat
14 Palestine 0.6032 2023 up 0.2% flat
15 Laos 0.6012 2018 up 2.9% flat
16 Ghana 0.5977 2016 up 1.2% rising
17 Thailand 0.5972 2021 down 0.3% falling
18 Tanzania 0.5938 2017 up 1.5% rising
19 Cameroon 0.5937 2021 down 5.8% flat
20 Lebanon 0.5935 2024 down 5.8% flat
21 Costa Rica 0.5933 2022 down 2.6% flat
22 Tunisia 0.5881 2021 up 0.9% falling
23 Rwanda 0.587 2023 down 7.4% falling
24 Kenya 0.582 2021 down 0.9% falling
25 Indonesia 0.5768 2018 up 2.2% flat
26 Sri Lanka 0.5766 2016 down 2.7% rising
27 Jordan 0.576 2013 down 3.3% flat
28 Dominican Republic 0.575 2022 down 12.6% falling
29 Cambodia 0.5692 2014 — falling
30 Burkina Faso 0.5684 2021 down 3.1% falling
31 Gambia 0.5681 2020 down 8.8% falling
32 Togo 0.5666 2021 down 8.9% falling
33 Madagascar 0.5641 2021 down 7.5% falling
34 Taiwan 0.5579 2017 down 3.5% rising
35 Senegal 0.5539 2021 down 4.8% falling
36 Malawi 0.5498 2019 down 11.9% falling
37 Burundi 0.5481 2020 down 2.4% flat
38 Egypt 0.5468 2020 up 3.4% flat
39 Hong Kong 0.5438 2024 down 1.9% rising
40 Mali 0.5422 2021 up 4.6% falling
41 Philippines 0.5419 2018 down 6.5% falling
42 Cote d'Ivoire 0.5404 2021 down 9.8% flat
43 Niger 0.5378 2021 up 3.7% falling
44 El Salvador 0.5364 2022 down 13.9% falling
45 Vietnam 0.5358 2018 up 0.1% falling
46 Benin 0.5324 2021 down 12.5% flat
47 Nigeria 0.5316 2022 up 1.0% falling
47 Russia 0.5316 2017 down 7.7% rising
49 Ecuador 0.529 2022 down 2.2% falling
50 Singapore 0.5277 2014 up 5.3% rising
51 Argentina 0.5242 2022 up 7.6% falling
52 Guinea-Bissau 0.5238 2021 down 22.6% falling
53 Israel 0.5191 2016 down 2.1% rising
54 China 0.5185 2015 down 3.5% rising
55 Bangladesh 0.5167 2016 down 6.9% rising
55 Tajikistan 0.5167 2015 down 1.2% flat
57 Iran 0.5149 2022 down 10.6% falling
58 Georgia 0.5108 2024 up 4.1% falling
59 Pakistan 0.5095 2018 down 4.6% flat
60 Kyrgyzstan 0.5067 2019 up 3.3% falling
61 Ethiopia 0.5036 2021 down 6.2% falling
62 Uruguay 0.4979 2022 up 5.7% falling
63 Mongolia 0.4961 2018 down 0.1% flat
64 Kazakhstan 0.4937 2018 up 13.1% flat
65 Bulgaria 0.4914 2023 up 15.2% rising
66 Mauritania 0.482 2019 down 5.8% falling
67 Romania 0.4783 2022 down 1.6% rising
68 Estonia 0.4727 2022 up 3.5% rising
69 Guinea 0.4688 2018 down 17.2% falling
70 Lithuania 0.4683 2022 up 0.6% rising
71 United States 0.4673 2024 down 3.7% falling
72 Serbia 0.4615 2022 down 1.4% rising
73 Montenegro 0.4597 2021 down 3.7% rising
74 Albania 0.454 2022 up 3.3% flat
75 Moldova 0.4534 2021 down 5.0% rising
76 Malaysia 0.4525 2022 down 9.6% falling
77 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.4454 2015 down 3.3% rising
78 South Korea 0.4321 2022 down 1.5% rising
79 Latvia 0.4247 2022 down 2.2% rising
81 North Macedonia 0.4112 2018 down 11.9% rising
82 Croatia 0.4069 2022 up 2.4% rising
83 Poland 0.4011 2022 up 0.7% rising
84 Greece 0.3819 2022 down 1.3% falling
85 Australia 0.3787 2022 down 2.4% rising
86 Portugal 0.3678 2022 down 3.1% flat
87 Germany 0.3654 2022 down 1.7% rising
88 Canada 0.3617 2022 down 5.0% rising
90 Hungary 0.3579 2022 up 9.5% rising
91 New Zealand 0.3514 2022 up 8.9% falling
92 Spain 0.3441 2022 down 2.4% falling
93 Italy 0.3367 2015 down 2.7% flat
94 Cyprus 0.3335 2022 down 15.4% falling
96 United Kingdom 0.3185 2021 up 2.3% flat
97 Slovenia 0.3181 2022 down 3.5% flat
98 Norway 0.3146 2022 up 15.7% rising
99 Netherlands 0.3113 2022 up 2.5% rising
100 Austria 0.3059 2017 down 5.1% flat
101 Slovakia 0.2969 2022 down 9.9% rising
102 Belgium 0.2869 2022 up 3.8% falling
103 Switzerland 0.2852 2022 down 8.4% falling
104 Finland 0.2785 2022 up 1.3% flat
105 Czechia 0.2782 2022 down 4.8% rising
106 France 0.2723 2022 down 0.9% falling
107 Sweden 0.2588 2022 up 2.4% rising
108 Denmark 0.2359 2022 up 13.5% rising
109 Iceland 0.2199 2016 down 21.8% falling

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
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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.