Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Guinea

Income share of the poorest 20% in Guinea in 2018 — 8.5%. Ranked 18 in the world out of 93. Since 1991, the indicator has risen by 4.6 pp.

2018 8.5% +0.9 pp vs 2012
World rank 18of 93
Period maximum 8.5%2018
Period minimum 3.9%1991

Trend over time

1991–2018 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Guinea, 1991–201824681019911994199720002003200620092012201520181991: 3.9%1994: 5.2%2002: 5.8%2007: 6.3%2012: 7.6%2018: 8.5%
Change over the period: +4.6 pp Annual average: 0.17 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Guinea, by year Guinea All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2018 8.5 —
2012 7.6 —
2007 6.3 —
2002 5.8 —
1994 5.2 —
1991 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.