Income share held by lowest 20%
- World average (population-weighted)
- 6.3 %
- across 57 countries, 2023
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
No data available
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2023.
Top 5
- 10.2 %
- 10.0 %
- 9.9 %
- 9.9 %
- 9.5 %
Source: World Bank — WDI · SI.DST.FRST.20
Bottom 5
Source: World Bank — WDI · SI.DST.FRST.20
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
No series for the selected countries.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- % of income (%)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · Higher is better
- Valid range
- 0 – 20
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source171 countries · 2,430 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0
Percentage share of income or consumption is the share that accrues to subgroups of population indicated by deciles or quintiles. Percentage shares by quintile may not sum to 100 because of rounding. Source: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org., World Bank (WB), uri: http://pip.worldbank.org, note: Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database.
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=income-share-bottom-20" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'