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Income inequality

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Poorest quintile's share in national income or consumption, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
20036.9 

Population below $1 (PPP) per day, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
200347.312

Poverty gap ratio at $1 a day (PPP), percentage

YearValueFootnotes
200315.712

Proportion of employed people living below $1 (PPP) per day, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
200343.63

Footnotes:

  1. Source: http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet
  2. Based on nominal per capita consumption averages and distributions estimated from household survey data.
  3. Questionnaire of Well-Being Indicators, 2003

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

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