Income share of the poorest 20% in Lesotho in 2017 — 4.6%. Ranked 71 in the world out of 78. Since 1986, the indicator has risen by 1.7 pp.
1986–2017 · % of income
| Year | % | Change, pp |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4.6 | — |
| 2002 | 3.3 | — |
| 1994 | 1.7 | — |
| 1986 | 2.9 | — |
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.
What part of all income in a country goes to its richest fifth of the population.
Labor Gini indexA measure of income inequality: 0 is complete equality, 100 is maximum inequality.
Labor Poverty at $3.65 a dayThe share of people living on less than $3.65 a day — the line for lower-middle-income countries.
Labor Unemployment rateThe share of the labor force that is looking for work and available to start.
Labor Youth unemploymentThe unemployment rate at ages 15–24 — almost always two to three times the overall rate.
