Gini index — all countries

Gini index — Egypt

Gini index in Egypt in 2021 — 28.5 index. Ranked 11 in the world out of 81. Since 1990, the indicator has fallen by 10.9%.

2021 28.5 index −10.66% vs 2019
World rank 11of 81
Period maximum 32 index1990
Period minimum 28.3 index2012

Trend over time

1990–2021 · index, 0–100

Gini index — Egypt, 1990–202128293031321990199419982002200620102014201820211990: 32 index1995: 30.1 index1999: 30.8 index2004: 31.8 index2008: 31.1 index2010: 30.2 index2012: 28.3 index2015: 31.8 index2017: 31.5 index2019: 31.9 index2021: 28.5 index
Change over the period: −3.5 (−10.94%) Average annual rate: -0.37 %
Gini index — Egypt, by year Egypt All countries CSV XLSX
Year index Change Change, %
2021 28.5
2019 31.9
2017 31.5
2015 31.8
2012 28.3
2010 30.2
2008 31.1
2004 31.8
1999 30.8
1995 30.1
1990 32

Northern Africa, 2021

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

EG Egypt 28.5 TN Tunisia 33.7

About the indicator

The Gini index measures how far the distribution of income (or consumption) in a country departs from a perfectly even one. A value of 0 would mean everyone receives the same, 100 that all income goes to one person. Values below 30 are typical of Northern and Central Europe, values above 50 of a number of countries in Latin America and Southern Africa.

Important: There are no aggregates for country groups, and this is not a gap: the inequality of a group does not follow from country-level Gini values — it requires the income distribution of all its residents at once. The data rest on household surveys, are not available for every year, and the base may be either income or consumption.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.