Gini Coefficients

Wealth/Poverty Sector Sizes

Country Name

1999

2000

Estimated

Upper Bound

Lower Bound

Tanzania

34.62

35.00

1.47%

0.74%

Poland

33.08

32.93

17.55

20.94%

11.08%

Norway

25.79

2.56

24.87%

13.32%

Finland

26.88

2.11

27.19%

14.67%

Hungary

27.77

27.32

4.80

27.53%

14.87%

Germany

28.31

1.36

27.97%

15.13%

Austria

29.15

2.94

28.27%

15.31%

Netherlands

30.90

0.59

32.29%

17.71%

Greece

34.27

9.19

33.14%

18.23%

Belgium

32.97

0.47

33.56%

18.49%

Ireland

34.28

5.44

33.87%

18.68%

Egypt, Arab Rep.

32.76

15.77

34.56%

19.11%

Madagascar

41.81

43.52

34.57%

19.11%

Spain

34.66

3.36

35.31%

19.57%

United Kingdom

35.97

0.63

36.42%

20.26%

Italy

36.03

2.48

36.53%

20.33%

Morocco

39.46

20.37

39.60%

22.28%

United States

40.81

0.89

41.28%

23.37%

Jamaica

44.22

13.54

42.36%

24.08%

Romania

30.25

-1.58

46.70%

26.99%

Uruguay

44.56

5.86

48.04%

27.92%

Mauritania

39.04

28.17

48.52%

28.25%

Mexico

51.87

16.22

48.64%

28.33%

Pakistan

33.02

20.02

50.28%

29.49%

Costa Rica

46.60

7.97

57.05%

34.46%

Philippines

46.09

21.53

57.84%

35.07%

El Salvador

51.92

17.15

58.87%

35.87%

Panama

56.56

13.39

59.35%

36.24%

South Africa

57.77

5.68

60.21%

36.92%

Chile

55.36

7.36

63.29%

39.41%

Dominican Republic

52.11

5.03

65.77%

41.49%

Brazil

58.59

8.40

66.89%

42.46%

Colombia

57.92

57.50

6.90

77.20%

52.25%

Honduras

51.50

12.11

80.80%

56.18%

Bolivia

57.79

24.68

91.16%

70.27%

Bangladesh

30.72

30.82

< 0

Rwanda

46.68

43.19

< 0

Thailand

43.53

43.15

45.17

< 0

Uganda

43.07

36.46

< 0

Guatemala

54.97

22.67

> 1

Paraguay

56.85

8.40

> 1