Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Montenegro

Income share of the poorest 20% in Montenegro in 2021 — 6.2%. Ranked 60 in the world out of 81. Since 2005, the indicator has fallen by 2.3 pp.

2021 6.2% +0.1 pp vs 2020
World rank 60of 81
Period maximum 8.7%2010
Period minimum 4.5%2012

Trend over time

2005–2021 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Montenegro, 2005–2021468102005200720092011201320152017201920212005: 8.5%2006: 8.4%2007: 8.1%2008: 8.4%2009: 8.3%2010: 8.7%2011: 8.2%2012: 4.5%2013: 5.2%2014: 5.1%2015: 5.2%2016: 5.2%2017: 5.2%2018: 5.3%2019: 5.9%2020: 6.1%2021: 6.2%
Change over the period: −2.3 pp Annual average: -0.14 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Montenegro, by year Montenegro All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 6.2 +0.1 pp
2020 6.1 +0.2 pp
2019 5.9 +0.6 pp
2018 5.3 +0.1 pp
2017 5.2 +0 pp
2016 5.2 +0 pp
2015 5.2 +0.1 pp
2014 5.1 −0.1 pp
2013 5.2 +0.7 pp
2012 4.5 −3.7 pp
2011 8.2 −0.5 pp
2010 8.7 +0.4 pp
2009 8.3 −0.1 pp
2008 8.4 +0.3 pp
2007 8.1 −0.3 pp
2006 8.4 −0.1 pp
2005 8.5

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.