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NATIONAL RANKINGS

Source: World Factbook. last update Feb 5, 2013.

This index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income within a country arranged from the poorest to the richest. The most equal has the lowest Gini score.

Top Ten Most Equal

country, Gini score .............date of info

Sweden 23.0 ............................2005

Montenegro 24.3 ......................2010

Hungary 24.7............................ 2009

Denmark 24.8............................2011

Norway 25.0...............................2008

Slovakia 26.0......................... ...2005

Luxembourg 26.0.......................2005

Austria 26.0...............................2007

Kazakhstan 26.7........................2009

Finland 26.8 ..............................2008

Ten Least Equal

Namibia 70.7 ...............................2003

South Africa 65.0 ........................2005

Lesotho 63.2 ..............................1995

Botswana 63.0 ........................... 1993

Sierra Leone 62.9 ......................1989

Central African Republic 61.3......1993

Haiti 59.2 ....................................2001

Bolivia 58.2..................................2009

Honduras 57.7.............................2007

Colombia 56.0.............................2010

 

Others

Germany 27.0...............................2006

India 36.8..................................... 2004

United States 45.0....................... 2007

Singapore 47.3............................ 2011

China 48.0 ...................................2009

Figures for Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich nations are not available.