Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Belarus

Income share of the poorest 20% in Belarus in 2020 — 10.3%. Ranked 1 in the world out of 70. Since 1993, the indicator has fallen by 0.8 pp.

2020 10.3% +0.3 pp vs 2019
World rank 1of 70
Period maximum 11.1%1993
Period minimum 7.6%1999

Trend over time

1993–2020 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Belarus, 1993–202078910111219931996199920022005200820112014201720201993: 11.1%1995: 8.5%1998: 7.9%1999: 7.6%2000: 7.9%2001: 8.2%2002: 8.3%2003: 8.6%2004: 9.4%2005: 8.9%2006: 8.8%2007: 8.6%2008: 9%2009: 9.1%2010: 8.8%2011: 9.2%2012: 9.5%2013: 9.5%2014: 9.3%2015: 9.7%2016: 9.9%2017: 9.9%2018: 10.1%2019: 10%2020: 10.3%
Change over the period: −0.8 pp Annual average: -0.03 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Belarus, by year Belarus All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2020 10.3 +0.3 pp
2019 10 −0.1 pp
2018 10.1 +0.2 pp
2017 9.9 +0 pp
2016 9.9 +0.2 pp
2015 9.7 +0.4 pp
2014 9.3 −0.2 pp
2013 9.5 +0 pp
2012 9.5 +0.3 pp
2011 9.2 +0.4 pp
2010 8.8 −0.3 pp
2009 9.1 +0.1 pp
2008 9 +0.4 pp
2007 8.6 −0.2 pp
2006 8.8 −0.1 pp
2005 8.9 −0.5 pp
2004 9.4 +0.8 pp
2003 8.6 +0.3 pp
2002 8.3 +0.1 pp
2001 8.2 +0.3 pp
2000 7.9 +0.3 pp
1999 7.6 −0.3 pp
1998 7.9
1995 8.5
1993 11.1

Eastern Europe, 2020

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

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.