Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Algeria

Income share of the poorest 20% in Algeria in 2011 — 9.4%. Ranked 8 in the world out of 82. Since 1988, the indicator has risen by 2.6 pp.

2011 9.4% +2.4 pp vs 1995
World rank 8of 82
Period maximum 9.4%2011
Period minimum 6.8%1988

Trend over time

1988–2011 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Algeria, 1988–20116789101988199119941997200020032006200920111988: 6.8%1995: 7%2011: 9.4%
Change over the period: +2.6 pp Annual average: 0.11 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Algeria, by year Algeria All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2011 9.4
1995 7
1988 6.8

About the indicator

The share of total income or consumption that goes to the poorest twenty percent of the population. Under complete equality it would be twenty percent; in the most equal countries it comes to about nine, in the most unequal to about three. The indicator reads more plainly than the Gini index: instead of collapsing the whole distribution into a single number, it says outright how much goes to those who get the least.

Important: There are no aggregates for country groups: the top and bottom quintiles of a group are not a union of national quintiles, and they cannot be computed from country shares. The same reason as with the Gini index.

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