Gini index — all countries

Gini index — Tanzania

Gini index in Tanzania in 2018 — 40.5 index. Ranked 71 in the world out of 93. Since 1991, the indicator has risen by 14.7%.

2018 40.5 index +7.14% vs 2011
World rank 71of 93
Period maximum 40.5 index2018
Period minimum 35.3 index1991

Trend over time

1991–2018 · index, 0–100

Gini index — Tanzania, 1991–2018343638404219911994199720002003200620092012201520181991: 35.3 index2000: 37.3 index2007: 40.3 index2011: 37.8 index2018: 40.5 index
Change over the period: +5.2 (+14.73%) Average annual rate: 0.51 %
Gini index — Tanzania, by year Tanzania All countries CSV XLSX
Year index Change Change, %
2018 40.5
2011 37.8
2007 40.3
2000 37.3
1991 35.3

Eastern Africa, 2018

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

SC Seychelles 32.1 TZ Tanzania 40.5

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.