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Income inequality

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

YearValueFootnotes
19926.7 
19985.6 
20065.2 

Population below $1 (PPP) per day, percentage

YearValueFootnotes
199251.112
199839.112
20063012

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

YearValueFootnotes
199218.312
199814.412
200610.512

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

YearValueFootnotes
199834.63

Footnotes:

  1. Source: http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet
  2. Based on nominal per capita consumption averages and distributions estimated from household survey data.
  3. Ghana Living Standards Survey, 1998

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

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