Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Saint Lucia

Income share of the poorest 20% in Saint Lucia in 2015 — 5.5%. Ranked 66 in the world out of 87. Since 1995, the indicator has risen by 0.3 pp.

2015 5.5% +0.3 pp vs 1995
World rank 66of 87
Period maximum 5.5%2015
Period minimum 5.2%1995

Trend over time

1995–2015 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Saint Lucia, 1995–20155.25.35.45.5199519971999200120032005200720092011201320151995: 5.2%2015: 5.5%
Change over the period: +0.3 pp Annual average: 0.02 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Saint Lucia, by year Saint Lucia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 5.5
1995 5.2

Caribbean, 2015

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

LC Saint Lucia 5.5 DO Dominican Republic 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.