Comparing the 130 selected regions regarding the gini index , South Africa is leading the ranking (0.63 points) and is followed by Namibia with 0.58 points. At the other end of the spectrum is Slovakia with 0.23 points, indicating a difference of 0.4 points to South Africa. The Gini coefficient here measures the degree of income inequality on a scale from 0 (=total equality of incomes) to one (=total inequality).The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in more than 150 countries and regions worldwide. All input data are sourced from international institutions, national statistical offices, and trade associations. All data has been are processed to generate comparable datasets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

Of the countries included, South Africa had the highest income inequality, with a Gini coefficient of 0.62. It was also the country with the highest inequality level worldwide. Of the OECD members, Costa Rica had the highest income inequality, whereas Slovakia had the lowest.

The average for 2021 based on 31 countries was 31.37 index points. The highest value was in Turkey: 44.4 index points and the lowest value was in Slovakia: 24.1 index points. The indicator is available from 1963 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

In 2023, Bulgaria had the highest Gini Index score in the European Union at 37.2, implying that the country had the highest level of inequality among European countries. The Gini Index is a measure of inequality within economies, a lower score indicates more equality, and a higher score less equality. Slovakia had the lowest score among EU countries for 2023 with a score of 21.6, suggesting that it is the most egalitarian society in Europe.

The average for 2021 based on 12 countries was 44.83 index points. The highest value was in Colombia: 55.1 index points and the lowest value was in Dominican Republic: 38.5 index points. The indicator is available from 1963 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Out of the G20 countries, South Africa, Brazil, and Turkey have the highest levels of income inequality, while France, Canada, and Germany have the lowest levels of inequality. Other G20 countries in the middle have Gini coefficients between 32.5 and 44.0. The Gini coefficient measures the level of income inequality worldwide, where a higher score indicates a higher level of income inequality.

The average for 2021 based on 5 countries was 36.92 index points. The highest value was in Malaysia: 40.7 index points and the lowest value was in India: 32.8 index points. The indicator is available from 1963 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

South Africa had the highest inequality in income distribution in 2024, with a Gini score of **. Its South African neighbor, Namibia, followed in second. The Gini coefficient measures the deviation of income (or consumption) distribution among individuals or households within a country from a perfectly equal distribution. A value of 0 represents absolute equality, and a value of 100 represents absolute inequality. All the 20 most unequal countries in the world were either located in Africa or Latin America & The Caribbean.

Based on the degree of inequality in income distribution measured by the Gini coefficient, Colombia was the most unequal country in Latin America as of 2022. Colombia's Gini coefficient amounted to 54.8. The Dominican Republic recorded the lowest Gini coefficient at 37, even below Uruguay and Chile, which are some of the countries with the highest human development indexes in Latin America. The Gini coefficient explained The Gini coefficient measures the deviation of the distribution of income among individuals or households in a given country from a perfectly equal distribution. A value of 0 represents absolute equality, whereas 100 would be the highest possible degree of inequality. This measurement reflects the degree of wealth inequality at a certain moment in time, though it may fail to capture how average levels of income improve or worsen over time. What affects the Gini coefficient in Latin America? Latin America, as other developing regions in the world, generally records high rates of inequality, with a Gini coefficient ranging between 37 and 55 points according to the latest available data from the reporting period 2010-2023. According to the Human Development Report, wealth redistribution by means of tax transfers improves Latin America's Gini coefficient to a lesser degree than it does in advanced economies. Wider access to education and health services, on the other hand, have been proven to have a greater direct effect in improving Gini coefficient measurements in the region.

The average for 2021 based on 11 countries was 37.01 index points. The highest value was in the Central African Republic: 43 index points and the lowest value was in Niger: 32.9 index points. The indicator is available from 1963 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Notes: The inequality footprint is broken down into contributions from trade partners with a Gini index of above 0.4, 0.35–0.4, 0.3–0.35, and less 0.3. ARG Argentina, AZE Azerbaijan, BLR Belarus, BOL Bolivia, BRA Brazil, CHL Chile, CHN China, ECU Ecuador, KAZ Kazakhstan, LKA Sri Lanka, LTU Lithuania, MDG Madagascar, MEX Mexico, MYS Malaysia, PHL Philippines, PRY Paraguay, RUS Russia, THA Thailand, TJK Tajikistan, UGA Uganda, UKR Ukraine, VEN Venezuela, ZMB Zambia, ac air conditioner, ch wood charcoal, clo clothes, clov cloves, coc cocoa, cof coffee, cop copper, cot cotton, cw clocks and watches parts, dp dairy products, dum dumpers, ec electronic circuits, ff fresh fruits and juices, gen electric generators, io iron ores, jew jewellery, ma maize, med medical articles and instruments, mob mobile, mot electric motors and it's parts, mt canning meat, n.e.s. not elsewhere specified, nb niobium ore, ng natural gas, pg petroleum gas, pm printing machine, po petroleum oil, pt part of telephone, pu chemical wood pulp, rc milling rice, ref refrigerators, ros roses, rubb natural rubber, rw railway parts, sb soya bean, sc solar cell, scr monitors and projectors, sf seafood, sug cane or beet sugar, tel telephone, tob tobacco, tr live tree, tra tractors parts and accessories, tx textiles, va vanilla, veg vegetables, wd wood in rough.This Table Ranked List of Countries as in Fig. 3 but with Detail on Inequality-Implicated Commodities and the Labour Embodied in Imports from Countries that have a Gini Index above 0.4.

The average for 2021 based on 2 countries was 34.6 index points. The highest value was in Iran: 35.5 index points and the lowest value was in Tunisia: 33.7 index points. The indicator is available from 1963 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

A high number of the countries with the highest income distribution levels are located in Eastern and Central Europe, with Slovakia topping the list, with an index of ****. On the other end of the scale, South Africa was the country with the lowest income distribution.

This statistic shows the inequality of income distribution in China from 2005 to 2023 based on the Gini Index. In 2023, China reached a score of ************ points. The Gini Index is a statistical measure that is used to represent unequal distributions, e.g. income distribution. It can take any value between 1 and 100 points (or 0 and 1). The closer the value is to 100 the greater is the inequality. 40 or 0.4 is the warning level set by the United Nations. The Gini Index for South Korea had ranged at about **** in 2022. Income distribution in China The Gini coefficient is used to measure the income inequality of a country. The United States, the World Bank, the US Central Intelligence Agency, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development all provide their own measurement of the Gini coefficient, varying in data collection and survey methods. According to the United Nations Development Programme, countries with the largest income inequality based on the Gini index are mainly located in Africa and Latin America, with South Africa displaying the world's highest value in 2022. The world's most equal countries, on the contrary, are situated mostly in Europe. The United States' Gini for household income has increased by around ten percent since 1990, to **** in 2023. Development of inequality in China Growing inequality counts as one of the biggest social, economic, and political challenges to many countries, especially emerging markets. Over the last 20 years, China has become one of the world's largest economies. As parts of the society have become more and more affluent, the country's Gini coefficient has also grown sharply over the last decades. As shown by the graph at hand, China's Gini coefficient ranged at a level higher than the warning line for increasing risk of social unrest over the last decade. However, the situation has slightly improved since 2008, when the Gini coefficient had reached the highest value of recent times.

This statistic shows a ranking of the estimated Gini index in 2020 in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), differentiated by country. The Gini coefficient here measures the degree of income inequality on a scale from 0 (=total equality of incomes) to 1 (=total inequality). The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in more than 150 countries and regions worldwide. All input data are sourced from international institutions, national statistical offices, and trade associations. All data has been are processed to generate comparable datasets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

About 50.4 percent of the household income of private households in the U.S. were earned by the highest quintile in 2023, which are the upper 20 percent of the workers. In contrast to that, in the same year, only 3.5 percent of the household income was earned by the lowest quintile. This relation between the quintiles is indicative of the level of income inequality in the United States. Income inequalityIncome inequality is a big topic for public discussion in the United States. About 65 percent of U.S. Americans think that the gap between the rich and the poor has gotten larger in the past ten years. This impression is backed up by U.S. census data showing that the Gini-coefficient for income distribution in the United States has been increasing constantly over the past decades for individuals and households. The Gini coefficient for individual earnings of full-time, year round workers has increased between 1990 and 2020 from 0.36 to 0.42, for example. This indicates an increase in concentration of income. In general, the Gini coefficient is calculated by looking at average income rates. A score of zero would reflect perfect income equality and a score of one indicates a society where one person would have all the money and all other people have nothing. Income distribution is also affected by region. The state of New York had the widest gap between rich and poor people in the United States, with a Gini coefficient of 0.51, as of 2019. In global comparison, South Africa led the ranking of the 20 countries with the biggest inequality in income distribution in 2018. South Africa had a score of 63 points, based on the Gini coefficient. On the other hand, the Gini coefficient stood at 16.6 in Azerbaijan, indicating that income is widely spread among the population and not concentrated on a few rich individuals or families. Slovenia led the ranking of the 20 countries with the greatest income distribution equality in 2018.

This statistic shows a ranking of the estimated Gini index in 2020 in Africa, differentiated by country. The Gini coefficient here measures the degree of income inequality on a scale from 0 (=total equality of incomes) to 1 (=total inequality). The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in more than 150 countries and regions worldwide. All input data are sourced from international institutions, national statistical offices, and trade associations. All data has been are processed to generate comparable datasets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

In 2024, the projected poverty rate based on the national poverty line in Morocco was at 6 percent. This was a decrease from the 2023 projection, which was 5.2 percent. Poverty levels in the country fluctuated over the years under review. This is likely related to the economic issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Comparative poverty levels

In the region of Northern Africa, Morocco had the lowest projected poverty headcount ratio among the countries in 2023. However, Morocco ranked among the leading 20 countries with the highest multidimensional poverty index score worldwide. According to a survey conducted in 2019, almost 60 percent of people in Morocco believed that education was the most effective poverty reduction strategy, followed by job creation and employment.

Growing inequality in Morocco

A 2019 survey showed that the majority of people in Morocco felt that the gap between the rich and the poor was getting worse. Morocco’s Gini coefficient, a common measure of income inequality, showed that the country had a relatively high income disparity, and this was forecasted to increase in the future. Furthermore, African countries have some of the highest Gini coefficient indexes worldwide.

New York was the state with the greatest gap between rich and poor, with a Gini coefficient score of 0.52 in 2023. Although not a state, District of Columbia was among the highest Gini coefficients in the United States that year.

According to the latest governmental data from 2019, the Gini coefficient in South Africa was 0.65 points in 2015, with lesser inequality in income within the rural areas of the most southern country of Africa. The Gini index gives information on the distribution of income in a country. In an ideal situation in which incomes are perfectly distributed, the coefficient is equal to zero, whereas one represents the highest inequality situation.

South Africa had the world's highest inequality in income distribution. Furthermore, the first eight countries on the ranking are located in Sub-Saharan Africa, with an index over 50 points.