Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Marshall Islands

Income share of the poorest 20% in the Marshall Islands in 2019 — 7.2%. Ranked 40 in the world out of 78.

2019 7.2%
World rank 40of 78
Period maximum 7.2%2019
Period minimum 7.2%2019

Trend over time

2019–2019 · % of income

Change over the period: +0 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Marshall Islands, by year Marshall Islands All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2019 7.2

Micronesia, 2019

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

KI Kiribati 9.5 MH Marshall Islands 7.2

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.