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Income inequality

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

YearValueFootnotes
19934.4 
19984.3 

Population below $1 (PPP) per day, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
19935.81, 2, 3
19987.71, 2, 3

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

YearValueFootnotes
19932.61, 2, 3
19983.91, 2, 3

Footnotes:

  1. Based on nominal per capita income averages and distributions estimated from household survey data.
  2. Based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) dollars imputed using regression.
  3. Source: http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

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