Income inequality (Gini)

The Gini index, from 0 (everyone has the same) to 100 (one person has everything).

The Gini index measures how unequally income, or in some countries consumption, is shared among a country's people, from 0 (everyone has the same) to 100 (one person has everything). The World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform computes it from household surveys. Surveys are not held every year, so many countries have gaps between years.

World map · Gini index

Year

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (updated 2026-10-08) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

Over time · Gini index

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (updated 2026-10-08) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

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Every country and year, with the source on each row.

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Hello there, I’m Klaus Jürgen Folz. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and I work in Austria as a lead Python and Power BI developer. I built Data Mechanics because good decisions start with facts. Public data is often scattered, hard to find or locked behind paywalls, and too much of what we read about the world is biased. Here, every number is shown as it was published, next to its source, so anyone can check it, compare countries and leaders, and draw their own conclusions.

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