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Income inequality

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

YearValueFootnotes
19965.7 
20015.6 

Population below $1 (PPP) per day, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
199651.512
200132.812
20079.612

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

YearValueFootnotes
199618.912
200110.212
20071.212

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

YearValueFootnotes
2001313

Footnotes:

  1. Source: http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet
  2. Based on nominal per capita consumption averages and distributions estimated from household survey data.
  3. Second Household Survey of Cameroon, 2001

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

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