Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Gambia

Income share of the poorest 20% in the Gambia in 2020 — 6.6%. Ranked 46 in the world out of 70. Since 1998, the indicator has risen by 2.2 pp.

2020 6.6% −0.8 pp vs 2015
World rank 46of 70
Period maximum 7.4%2015
Period minimum 4.4%1998

Trend over time

1998–2020 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Gambia, 1998–202045678199820012004200720102013201620191998: 4.4%2003: 4.8%2010: 5.7%2015: 7.4%2020: 6.6%
Change over the period: +2.2 pp Annual average: 0.1 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Gambia, by year Gambia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2020 6.6 —
2015 7.4 —
2010 5.7 —
2003 4.8 —
1998 4.4 —

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.