Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Trinidad and Tobago

Income share of the poorest 20% in Trinidad and Tobago in 1992 — 5.5%. Ranked 23 in the world out of 41. Since 1988, the indicator has risen by 0.6 pp.

1992 5.5% +0.6 pp vs 1988
World rank 23of 41
Period maximum 5.5%1992
Period minimum 4.9%1988

Trend over time

1988–1992 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Trinidad and Tobago, 1988–19924.855.25.45.6198819891990199119921988: 4.9%1992: 5.5%
Change over the period: +0.6 pp Annual average: 0.15 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Trinidad and Tobago, by year Trinidad and Tobago All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
1992 5.5
1988 4.9

Caribbean, 1992

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

TT Trinidad and Tobago 5.5 DO Dominican Republic 4.3

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.