Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Norway

Income share of the poorest 20% in Norway in 2023 — 9.1%. Ranked 9 in the world out of 57. Since 1979, the indicator has fallen by 0.4 pp.

2023 9.1% +0 pp vs 2022
World rank 9of 57
Period maximum 10.2%1986
Period minimum 8.6%2016

Trend over time

1979–2023 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Norway, 1979–20238.599.51010.519791984198919941999200420092014201920231979: 9.5%1986: 10.2%1991: 10%1995: 9.7%2000: 9.7%2003: 9.5%2004: 8.8%2005: 9%2006: 9.2%2007: 9.4%2008: 9.1%2009: 9.4%2010: 9.5%2011: 9.5%2012: 9.4%2013: 9.3%2014: 9.1%2015: 9%2016: 8.6%2017: 8.9%2018: 8.9%2019: 8.8%2020: 8.6%2021: 8.8%2022: 9.1%2023: 9.1%
Change over the period: −0.4 pp Annual average: -0.01 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Norway, by year Norway All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2023 9.1 +0 pp
2022 9.1 +0.3 pp
2021 8.8 +0.2 pp
2020 8.6 −0.2 pp
2019 8.8 −0.1 pp
2018 8.9 +0 pp
2017 8.9 +0.3 pp
2016 8.6 −0.4 pp
2015 9 −0.1 pp
2014 9.1 −0.2 pp
2013 9.3 −0.1 pp
2012 9.4 −0.1 pp
2011 9.5 +0 pp
2010 9.5 +0.1 pp
2009 9.4 +0.3 pp
2008 9.1 −0.3 pp
2007 9.4 +0.2 pp
2006 9.2 +0.2 pp
2005 9 +0.2 pp
2004 8.8 −0.7 pp
2003 9.5
2000 9.7
1995 9.7
1991 10
1986 10.2
1979 9.5

Northern 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.