Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Sudan

Income share of the poorest 20% in Sudan in 2014 — 7.8%. Ranked 27 in the world out of 84. Since 2009, the indicator has risen by 1 pp.

2014 7.8% +1 pp vs 2009
World rank 27of 84
Period maximum 7.8%2014
Period minimum 6.8%2009

Trend over time

2009–2014 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Sudan, 2009–20146.7577.257.57.7582009201020112012201320142009: 6.8%2014: 7.8%
Change over the period: +1 pp Annual average: 0.2 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Sudan, by year Sudan All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2014 7.8 —
2009 6.8 —

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.