Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Eswatini

Income share of the poorest 20% in Eswatini in 2016 — 3.7%. Ranked 78 in the world out of 83. Since 1994, the indicator has risen by 0.3 pp.

2016 3.7% −0.3 pp vs 2009
World rank 78of 83
Period maximum 4.5%2000
Period minimum 3.4%1994

Trend over time

1994–2016 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Eswatini, 1994–201633.544.5199419972000200320062009201220151994: 3.4%2000: 4.5%2009: 4%2016: 3.7%
Change over the period: +0.3 pp Annual average: 0.01 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Eswatini, by year Eswatini All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2016 3.7
2009 4
2000 4.5
1994 3.4

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.