Income Inequality
WorldEconomicIncome inequality by country measured by the GINI Index. A higher number indicates greater inequality.
The World BankGlobal income inequality by the G I N I index. Dark blue for the highest inequality (over 50 percent), seen in Brazil, South Africa, and Namibia. Light blue shows the lowest (below 30 percent), seen in central Europe, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Algeria.
Class | Rank | GINI index percentage | Class | Rank | Percent of electricity generation | Areas of serious concern | Areas of some concern | Stable terrain | Nonvegetated land | Adams | Akutan | Aniakchak | Atka | Bachelor | Baker | Belknap | Black Butte Crater Lava Field | Black Peak | Black Rock Desert | Blue Lake Crater | Buzzard Creek | Carrizozo | Chiginagak | Churchill | Cleveland | Crater Lake | Craters of the Moon | Dana | Davis Lake | Diamond Craters | Dotsero | Edgecumbe | Edziza | Fisher | Fourpeaked | Garibaldi | Glacier Peak | Golden Trout Creek | Great Sitkin | Griggs | Haleakala | Hayes | Hell's Half Acre | Hood | Hoodoo Mountain | Hualalai | Iliamna | Imuruk Lake | Indian Heaven | Iskut-Unuk River Cones | Jefferson | Jordan Craters | Kaguyak | Katmai | Kilauea | Kiska | Korovin | Kupreanof | Lassen Volcanic Center | Little Sitkin | Mageik | Makushin | Mammoth Mountain | Markagunt Plateau | Martin | Mauna Kea | Mauna Loa | Meager | Medicine Lake | Mono Lake Volcanic Field | Mono-Inyo Craters | Nazko | Newberry | Novarupta | Okmok | Pavlof | Rainier | Red Hill | Redoubt | Roundtop | Salton Buttes | San Francisco Volcanic Field | Sand Mountain Field | Seguam | Semisopochnoi | Shasta | Shishaldin | Snowy Mountain | Spurr | St. Helens | St. Paul Island | Takawangha | Tanaga | Three Sisters | Trident | Tseax River Cone | Ubehebe Craters | Ugashik-Peulik | Uinkaret Field | Ukinrek Maars | Veniaminof | Vsevidof | Wapi Lava Field | Wells Gray-Clearwater | West Crater | Westdahl | Wrangell | Yantarni | Yellowstone | Yunaska | Zuni-Bandera | No data | Arid and low water use | Low (<10%) | Low-medium (10-20%) | Medium-high (20-40%) | High (40-80%) | Extremely high (>80%) | |
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| 23.0% | 35.0% | 31.0% | 10.1% | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.654% | 3.65% | 47.2% | 4.86% | 6.22% | 9.97% | 14.9% | |||||||