Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Dominican Republic

Income share of the poorest 20% in the Dominican Republic in 2024 — 6.1%. Ranked 11 in the world out of 25. Since 1986, the indicator has risen by 2.2 pp.

2024 6.1% −0.1 pp vs 2023
World rank 11of 25
Period maximum 6.6%2021
Period minimum 3.7%2000

Trend over time

1986–2024 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Dominican Republic, 1986–202434567198619901994199820022006201020142018202220241986: 3.9%1989: 4.2%1992: 4.3%1996: 4.3%1997: 4%2000: 3.7%2001: 4.1%2002: 3.8%2003: 3.8%2004: 3.9%2005: 4.1%2006: 3.9%2007: 4.4%2008: 4.6%2009: 4.5%2010: 4.6%2011: 4.7%2012: 4.9%2013: 4.8%2014: 5.1%2015: 5%2016: 4.9%2017: 5.9%2018: 5.8%2019: 6%2020: 6.2%2021: 6.6%2022: 6.6%2023: 6.2%2024: 6.1%
Change over the period: +2.2 pp Annual average: 0.06 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Dominican Republic, by year Dominican Republic All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 6.1 −0.1 pp
2023 6.2 −0.4 pp
2022 6.6 +0 pp
2021 6.6 +0.4 pp
2020 6.2 +0.2 pp
2019 6 +0.2 pp
2018 5.8 −0.1 pp
2017 5.9 +1 pp
2016 4.9 −0.1 pp
2015 5 −0.1 pp
2014 5.1 +0.3 pp
2013 4.8 −0.1 pp
2012 4.9 +0.2 pp
2011 4.7 +0.1 pp
2010 4.6 +0.1 pp
2009 4.5 −0.1 pp
2008 4.6 +0.2 pp
2007 4.4 +0.5 pp
2006 3.9 −0.2 pp
2005 4.1 +0.2 pp
2004 3.9 +0.1 pp
2003 3.8 +0 pp
2002 3.8 −0.3 pp
2001 4.1 +0.4 pp
2000 3.7 —
1997 4 −0.3 pp
1996 4.3 —
1992 4.3 —
1989 4.2 —
1986 3.9 —

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.