Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Tuvalu

Income share of the poorest 20% in Tuvalu in 2010 — 6.6%. Ranked 51 in the world out of 86.

2010 6.6%
World rank 51of 86
Period maximum 6.6%2010
Period minimum 6.6%2010

Trend over time

2010–2010 · % of income

Change over the period: +0 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Tuvalu, by year Tuvalu All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2010 6.6

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.