Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Mauritius

Income share of the poorest 20% in Mauritius in 2017 — 7.2%. Ranked 36 in the world out of 78. Since 2006, the indicator has fallen by 0.4 pp.

2017 7.2% +0.2 pp vs 2012
World rank 36of 78
Period maximum 7.6%2006
Period minimum 7%2012

Trend over time

2006–2017 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Mauritius, 2006–201777.27.47.620062008201020122014201620172006: 7.6%2012: 7%2017: 7.2%
Change over the period: −0.4 pp Annual average: -0.04 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Mauritius, by year Mauritius All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2017 7.2
2012 7
2006 7.6

Eastern Africa, 2017

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.