Gini index - Distribution of family income - The World Factbook - CIA

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This index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country. The index is calculated from the Lorenz curve, in which cumulative family income is plotted against the number of families arranged from the poorest to the richest. The index is the ratio of (a) the area between a country's Lorenz curve and the 45 degree helping line to (b) the entire triangular area under the 45 degree line. The more nearly equal a country's income distribution, the closer its Lorenz curve to the 45 degree line and the lower its Gini index, e.g., a Scandinavian country with an index of 25. The more unequal a country's income distribution, the farther its Lorenz curve from the 45 degree line and the higher its Gini index, e.g., a Sub-Saharan country with an index of 50. If income were distributed with perfect equality, the Lorenz curve would coincide with the 45 degree line and the index would be zero; if income were distributed with perfect inequality, the Lorenz curve would coincide with the horizontal axis and the right vertical axis and the index would be 100.

Rank	Country	Distribution of family income - Gini index
Gini index - Distribution of family income - The World Factbook - CIA
1	Namibia	70.7
2	South Africa	65
3	Lesotho	63.2
4	Botswana	63
5	Sierra Leone	62.9
6	Central African Republic	61.3
7	Bolivia	59.2
8	Haiti	59.2
9	Colombia	58.5
10	Brazil	56.7
11	Bosnia and Herzegovina	56.2
12	Panama	56.1
13	Guatemala	55.1
14	Chile	54.9
15	Honduras	53.8
16	Hong Kong	53.3
17	Paraguay	53.2
18	El Salvador	52.4
19	Peru	52
20	Papua New Guinea	50.9
21	Zambia	50.8
22	Niger	50.5
23	Swaziland	50.4
24	Gambia	50.2
25	Zimbabwe	50.1
26	Dominican Republic	49.9
27	Sri Lanka	49
28	Mexico	48.2
29	Singapore	48.1
30	Costa Rica	48
31	Ecuador	47.9
32	Madagascar	47.5
33	Mozambique	47.3
34	Nepal	47.2
35	Rwanda	46.8
36	Malaysia	46.1
37	Philippines	45.8
38	Argentina	45.7
39	Uganda	45.7
40	Jamaica	45.5
41	Uruguay	45.2
42	United States	45
43	Cameroon	44.6
44	Ivory Coast	44.6
45	Iran	44.5
46	Nigeria	43.7
47	Guyana	43.2
48	Nicaragua	43.1
49	Cambodia	43
50	Thailand	43
51	Kenya	42.5
52	Burundi	42.4
53	Russia	42.3
54	China	41.5
55	Senegal	41.3
56	Turkey	41
57	Venezuela	41
58	Morocco	40.9
59	Georgia	40.8
60	Turkmenistan	40.8
61	Mali	40.1
62	Tunisia	40
63	Jordan	39.7
64	Burkina Faso	39.5
65	Ghana	39.4
66	Indonesia	39.4
67	Israel	39.2
68	Macedonia	39
69	Malawi	39
70	Mauritius	39
71	Mauritania	39
72	Portugal	38.5
73	Guinea	38.1
74	Japan	38.1
75	Timor-Leste	38
76	Yemen	37.7
77	Armenia	37
78	Vietnam	37
79	India	36.8
80	Uzbekistan	36.8
81	Azerbaijan	36.5
82	Benin	36.5
83	New Zealand	36.2
84	Latvia	36
85	Lithuania	36
86	Algeria	35.3
87	Poland	34.9
88	Laos	34.6
89	Tanzania	34.6
90	Egypt	34.4
91	Estonia	34
92	United Kingdom	34
93	Switzerland	33.7
94	Bangladesh	33.2
95	Moldova	33.2
96	Greece	33
97	Mongolia	32.8
98	France	32.7
99	Tajikistan	32.6
100	Canada	32.1
101	Italy	32
102	Spain	32
103	Romania	32
104	South Korea	31.3
105	Ukraine	31
106	European Union	31
107	Netherlands	30.9
108	Ireland	30.7
109	Pakistan	30.6
110	Australia	30.5
111	Kyrgyzstan	30.3
112	Ethiopia	30
113	Montenegro	30
114	Bulgaria	29.8
115	Finland	29.5
116	Croatia	29
117	Cyprus	29
118	Denmark	29
119	Kazakhstan	28.8
120	Slovenia	28.4
121	Belgium	28
122	Hungary	28
123	Iceland	28
124	Belarus	27.9
125	Germany	27
126	Albania	26.7
127	Austria	26
128	Malta	26
129	Serbia	26
130	Slovakia	26
131	Czech Republic	26
132	Luxembourg	26
133	Norway	25
134	Sweden	23

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