Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Moldova

Income share of the poorest 20% in Moldova in 2023 — 9.9%. Ranked 3 in the world out of 57. Since 1997, the indicator has risen by 3.3 pp.

2023 9.9% −0.3 pp vs 2022
World rank 3of 57
Period maximum 10.3%2020
Period minimum 6%1998

Trend over time

1997–2023 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Moldova, 1997–202368101219972000200320062009201220152018202120231997: 6.6%1998: 6%1999: 6%2000: 6.9%2001: 6.7%2002: 7%2003: 7.6%2004: 7.4%2005: 7%2006: 7.1%2007: 7.4%2008: 7.3%2009: 7.6%2010: 8.1%2011: 8.5%2012: 9%2013: 9.2%2014: 9.7%2015: 9.7%2016: 10%2017: 10%2018: 10.2%2019: 10%2020: 10.3%2021: 10.1%2022: 10.2%2023: 9.9%
Change over the period: +3.3 pp Annual average: 0.13 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Moldova, by year Moldova All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2023 9.9 −0.3 pp
2022 10.2 +0.1 pp
2021 10.1 −0.2 pp
2020 10.3 +0.3 pp
2019 10 −0.2 pp
2018 10.2 +0.2 pp
2017 10 +0 pp
2016 10 +0.3 pp
2015 9.7 +0 pp
2014 9.7 +0.5 pp
2013 9.2 +0.2 pp
2012 9 +0.5 pp
2011 8.5 +0.4 pp
2010 8.1 +0.5 pp
2009 7.6 +0.3 pp
2008 7.3 −0.1 pp
2007 7.4 +0.3 pp
2006 7.1 +0.1 pp
2005 7 −0.4 pp
2004 7.4 −0.2 pp
2003 7.6 +0.6 pp
2002 7 +0.3 pp
2001 6.7 −0.2 pp
2000 6.9 +0.9 pp
1999 6 +0 pp
1998 6 −0.6 pp
1997 6.6

Eastern Europe, 2023

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.