Gini index — all countries

Gini index — Liberia

Gini index in Liberia in 2016 — 35.3 index. Ranked 47 in the world out of 83. Since 2007, the indicator has fallen by 3%.

2016 35.3 index +6.33% vs 2014
World rank 47of 83
Period maximum 36.4 index2007
Period minimum 33.2 index2014

Trend over time

2007–2016 · index, 0–100

Gini index — Liberia, 2007–2016333435363720072008200920102011201220132014201520162007: 36.4 index2014: 33.2 index2016: 35.3 index
Change over the period: −1.1 (−3.02%) Average annual rate: -0.34 %
Gini index — Liberia, by year Liberia All countries CSV XLSX
Year index Change Change, %
2016 35.3
2014 33.2
2007 36.4

Western Africa, 2016

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

LR Liberia 35.3 GH Ghana 43.5

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.