Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Nicaragua

Income share of the poorest 20% in Nicaragua in 2014 — 5.1%. Ranked 63 in the world out of 84. Since 1993, the indicator has risen by 2.8 pp.

2014 5.1% −0.2 pp vs 2009
World rank 63of 84
Period maximum 5.3%2009
Period minimum 2.3%1993

Trend over time

1993–2014 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Nicaragua, 1993–201423456199319961999200220052008201120141993: 2.3%1998: 3.1%2001: 3.9%2005: 4.8%2009: 5.3%2014: 5.1%
Change over the period: +2.8 pp Annual average: 0.13 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Nicaragua, by year Nicaragua All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2014 5.1
2009 5.3
2005 4.8
2001 3.9
1998 3.1
1993 2.3

Central America, 2014

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.