Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Eswatini

Income share of the poorest 20% in Eswatini in 2016 — 3.7%. Ranked 78 in the world out of 83. Since 1994, the indicator has risen by 0.3 pp.

2016 3.7% −0.3 pp vs 2009
World rank 78of 83
Period maximum 4.5%2000
Period minimum 3.4%1994

Trend over time

1994–2016 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Eswatini, 1994–201633.544.5199419972000200320062009201220151994: 3.4%2000: 4.5%2009: 4%2016: 3.7%
Change over the period: +0.3 pp Annual average: 0.01 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Eswatini, by year Eswatini All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2016 3.7 —
2009 4 —
2000 4.5 —
1994 3.4 —

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.