Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — North Macedonia

Income share of the poorest 20% in North Macedonia in 2019 — 5.8%. Ranked 59 in the world out of 78. Since 1998, the indicator has fallen by 2.7 pp.

2019 5.8% −0.3 pp vs 2018
World rank 59of 78
Period maximum 8.5%1998
Period minimum 3.8%2010

Trend over time

1998–2019 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — North Macedonia, 1998–2019246810199820012004200720102013201620191998: 8.5%2000: 6.6%2002: 6.1%2003: 6.1%2004: 6.1%2005: 5.8%2006: 5.2%2008: 5%2009: 4.1%2010: 3.8%2011: 4.4%2012: 4.9%2013: 5.6%2014: 5.8%2015: 5.6%2016: 5.6%2017: 5.7%2018: 6.1%2019: 5.8%
Change over the period: −2.7 pp Annual average: -0.13 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — North Macedonia, by year North Macedonia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2019 5.8 −0.3 pp
2018 6.1 +0.4 pp
2017 5.7 +0.1 pp
2016 5.6 +0 pp
2015 5.6 −0.2 pp
2014 5.8 +0.2 pp
2013 5.6 +0.7 pp
2012 4.9 +0.5 pp
2011 4.4 +0.6 pp
2010 3.8 −0.3 pp
2009 4.1 −0.9 pp
2008 5 —
2006 5.2 −0.6 pp
2005 5.8 −0.3 pp
2004 6.1 +0 pp
2003 6.1 +0 pp
2002 6.1 —
2000 6.6 —
1998 8.5 —

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.