Gini index — all countries

Gini index — Namibia

Gini index in Namibia in 2015 — 59.1 index. Ranked 87 in the world out of 87. Since 1993, the indicator has fallen by 16.9%.

2015 59.1 index −3.11% vs 2009
World rank 87of 87
Period maximum 71.1 index1993
Period minimum 59.1 index2015

Trend over time

1993–2015 · index, 0–100

Gini index — Namibia, 1993–20155560657075199319961999200220052008201120141993: 71.1 index2003: 63.3 index2009: 61 index2015: 59.1 index
Change over the period: −12 (−16.88%) Average annual rate: -0.84 %
Gini index — Namibia, by year Namibia All countries CSV XLSX
Year index Change Change, %
2015 59.1
2009 61
2003 63.3
1993 71.1

Southern Africa, 2015

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

BW Botswana 54.9 NA Namibia 59.1

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.