Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Rwanda

Income share of the poorest 20% in Rwanda in 2023 — 7.4%. Ranked 25 in the world out of 57. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 2.2 pp.

2023 7.4% +1.4 pp vs 2016
World rank 25of 57
Period maximum 7.4%2023
Period minimum 4.6%2005

Trend over time

2000–2023 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Rwanda, 2000–2023456782000200320062009201220152018202120232000: 5.2%2005: 4.6%2010: 5.6%2013: 6%2016: 6%2023: 7.4%
Change over the period: +2.2 pp Annual average: 0.1 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Rwanda, by year Rwanda All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2023 7.4 —
2016 6 —
2013 6 —
2010 5.6 —
2005 4.6 —
2000 5.2 —

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.