Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Albania

Income share of the poorest 20% in Albania in 2020 — 8.4%. Ranked 19 in the world out of 70. Since 1996, the indicator has fallen by 0.8 pp.

2020 8.4% −0.1 pp vs 2019
World rank 19of 70
Period maximum 9.2%1996
Period minimum 7%2014

Trend over time

1996–2020 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Albania, 1996–2020789101996199920022005200820112014201720201996: 9.2%2002: 8.4%2005: 8.4%2008: 8.9%2012: 8.9%2014: 7%2015: 7.7%2016: 7.3%2017: 7.6%2018: 7.9%2019: 8.5%2020: 8.4%
Change over the period: −0.8 pp Annual average: -0.03 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Albania, by year Albania All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2020 8.4 −0.1 pp
2019 8.5 +0.6 pp
2018 7.9 +0.3 pp
2017 7.6 +0.3 pp
2016 7.3 −0.4 pp
2015 7.7 +0.7 pp
2014 7 —
2012 8.9 —
2008 8.9 —
2005 8.4 —
2002 8.4 —
1996 9.2 —

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.