Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Pakistan

Income share of the poorest 20% in Pakistan in 2024 — 8.2%. Ranked 4 in the world out of 25. Since 1987, the indicator has fallen by 0.1 pp.

2024 8.2% −1.4 pp vs 2018
World rank 4of 25
Period maximum 10%1996
Period minimum 8.1%1990

Trend over time

1987–2024 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Pakistan, 1987–202488.599.51019871991199519992003200720112015201920231987: 8.3%1990: 8.1%1996: 10%1998: 8.7%2001: 9.8%2004: 9.2%2005: 9.3%2007: 9.7%2010: 9.9%2011: 9.7%2013: 9.5%2015: 9.3%2018: 9.6%2024: 8.2%
Change over the period: −0.1 pp Annual average: 0 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Pakistan, by year Pakistan All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 8.2 —
2018 9.6 —
2015 9.3 —
2013 9.5 —
2011 9.7 −0.2 pp
2010 9.9 —
2007 9.7 —
2005 9.3 +0.1 pp
2004 9.2 —
2001 9.8 —
1998 8.7 —
1996 10 —
1990 8.1 —
1987 8.3 —

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.