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COUNTRY COMPARISON :: DISTRIBUTION OF FAMILY INCOME - GINI INDEX

Distribution of family income - Gini index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country. The more nearly equal a country's income distribution, the lower its Gini index, e.g., a Scandinavian country with an index of 25. The more unequal a country's income distribution, the higher its Gini index, e.g., a Sub-Saharan country with an index of 50. If income were distributed with perfect equality the index would be zero; if income were distributed with perfect inequality, the index would be 100.

Rank	Country	DISTRIBUTION OF FAMILY INCOME - GINI INDEX	Date of Information
1	Lesotho	63.2	1995
2	South Africa	62.5	2013 est.
3	Micronesia, Federated States of	61.1	2013 est.
4	Haiti	60.8	2012
5	Botswana	60.5	2009
6	Namibia	59.7	2010
7	Zambia	57.5	2013
8	Comoros	55.9	2004 est.
9	Hong Kong	53.9	2016
10	Guatemala	53.0	2014 est.
11	Paraguay	51.7	2014
12	Colombia	51.1	2015
13	Papua New Guinea	50.9	1996
14	Panama	50.7	2014 est.
15	Chile	50.5	2013
16	Rwanda	50.4	2013 est.
17	Eswatini	50.4	2001
18	Gambia, The	50.2	1998
19	Brazil	49.0	2014
20	Congo, Republic of the	48.9	2011 est.
21	Nigeria	48.8	2013
22	Costa Rica	48.5	2014
23	Kenya	48.5	2016 est.
24	Mexico	48.2	2014
25	Dominican Republic	47.1	2013 est.
26	Nicaragua	47.1	2014
27	Honduras	47.1	2014
28	Bolivia	47.0	2016 est.
29	China	46.5	2016 est.
30	Malaysia	46.2	2009
31	Malawi	46.1	2010
32	Togo	46.0	2011
33	South Sudan	46.0	2010 est.
34	Ecuador	45.9	December 2017
35	Singapore	45.9	2017
36	Saudi Arabia	45.9	2013 est.
37	Mozambique	45.6	2008
38	Peru	45.3	2012
39	United States	45.0	2007
40	Cameroon	44.6	2001
41	Guyana	44.6	2007
42	Thailand	44.5	2015
43	Iran	44.5	2006
44	Philippines	44.4	2015 est.
45	Central African Republic	43.6	2003 est.
46	Chad	43.3	2011 est.
47	Zimbabwe	43.2	2011 est.
48	Israel	42.8	2013
49	Angola	42.7	2008 est.
50	Burundi	42.4	1998
51	Ghana	42.3	2012-13
52	Gabon	42.2	2005 est.
53	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	42.1	2012 est.
54	Argentina	41.7	2017 est.
55	Uruguay	41.6	2014
56	Cote d'Ivoire	41.5	2008
57	Russia	41.2	2015
58	Madagascar	41.0	2012
59	Morocco	40.9	2007 est.
60	Djibouti	40.9	2002
61	Turkmenistan	40.8	1998
62	Senegal	40.3	2011
63	Turkey	40.2	2010
64	Bulgaria	40.2	2017
65	Georgia	40.1	2014
66	Mali	40.1	2001
67	Tunisia	40.0	2005 est.
68	Jordan	39.7	2007
69	Uganda	39.5	2013
70	Burkina Faso	39.5	2007
71	Guinea	39.4	2007
72	Sri Lanka	39.2	2012 est.
73	Venezuela	39.0	2011
74	Bhutan	38.8	2012
75	Serbia	38.7	2014 est.
76	Maldives	38.4	2009 est.
77	Cambodia	37.9	2008 est.
78	Japan	37.9	2011
79	Yemen	37.9	2009 est.
80	Lithuania	37.9	2015
81	Tanzania	37.6	2007
82	Mauritania	37.0	2014
83	Indonesia	36.8	2009
84	Uzbekistan	36.8	2003
85	Greece	36.7	2012 est.
86	Laos	36.7	2008
87	Benin	36.5	2003
88	New Zealand	36.2	1997
89	El Salvador	36.0	2016 est.
90	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	36.0	2015
91	Mauritius	35.9	2012 est.
92	Spain	35.9	2012
93	Korea, South	35.7	2016 est.
94	Algeria	35.3	1995
95	India	35.2	2011
96	Jamaica	35.0	2016
97	Macau	35.0	2013
98	Vietnam	34.8	2014
99	Estonia	34.8	2015
100	Cyprus	34.8	2014 est.
101	West Bank	34.5	2009 est.
102	Latvia	34.5	2015
103	Sierra Leone	34.0	2011
104	Niger	34.0	2014
105	Mongolia	34.0	2017
106	Greenland	33.9	2015 est.
107	Portugal	33.9	2015 est.
108	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33.8	2011
109	Azerbaijan	33.7	2008
110	Macedonia	33.7	2015
111	Taiwan	33.6	2014
112	Kyrgyzstan	33.4	2007
113	Ethiopia	33.0	2011
114	Nepal	32.8	2010
115	Tajikistan	32.6	2006
116	United Kingdom	32.4	2012
117	Canada	32.1	2005
118	Bangladesh	32.1	2010
119	Liberia	32.0	2014
120	Montenegro	31.9	2014 est.
121	Italy	31.9	2012 est.
122	Timor-Leste	31.9	2007 est.
123	Egypt	31.8	2015
124	Armenia	31.5	2014
125	Ireland	31.3	2013 est.
126	Poland	30.8	2015
127	European Union	30.8	2016 est.
128	Sao Tome and Principe	30.8	2010 est.
129	Croatia	30.8	2015 est.
130	Pakistan	30.7	FY2013
131	Austria	30.5	2015
132	Luxembourg	30.4	2013 est.
133	Netherlands	30.3	2015 est.
134	Australia	30.3	2008
135	Switzerland	29.5	2014 est.
136	France	29.3	2016
137	Denmark	29.0	2016 est.
138	Albania	29.0	2012 est.
139	Hungary	28.2	2015 est.
140	Malta	28.1	2015
141	Iceland	28.0	2006
142	Romania	27.3	2012
143	Finland	27.2	2016
144	Germany	27.0	2006
145	Moldova	26.8	2015 est.
146	Norway	26.8	2010
147	Belarus	26.5	2011
148	Kazakhstan	26.3	2013
149	Belgium	25.9	2013 est.
150	Ukraine	25.5	2015
151	Czechia	25.0	2015
152	Sweden	24.9	2013
153	Slovenia	24.4	2016
154	Slovakia	23.7	2015
155	Kosovo	23.2	2015 est.
156	Faroe Islands	22.7	2013 est.
157	Jersey	.3	2014 est.