Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Republic of the Congo

Income share of the poorest 20% in the Republic of the Congo in 2011 — 4.2%. Ranked 75 in the world out of 82. Since 2005, the indicator has fallen by 0.7 pp.

2011 4.2% −0.7 pp vs 2005
World rank 75of 82
Period maximum 4.9%2005
Period minimum 4.2%2011

Trend over time

2005–2011 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Republic of the Congo, 2005–20114.24.44.64.8520052006200720082009201020112005: 4.9%2011: 4.2%
Change over the period: −0.7 pp Annual average: -0.12 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Republic of the Congo, by year Republic of the Congo All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2011 4.2
2005 4.9

Middle Africa, 2011

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

TD Chad 4.9 CG Republic of the Congo 4.2

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.