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Income share held by highest 20%

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Timeline:

This timeline shows a graph from 1987 to 2014 of United States. No data until 1986. Number of actual observations by date: 9.

Source name:

World Development Indicators

Source organization:

World Bank, Development Research Group. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see PovcalNet (http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm).

Categories, topics:

Poverty

Last updated:

apr 23, 2017

Indicators value changes by year

Mean:

45.598

Minimum:

43.26

jan 1, 1987

Maximum:

46.73

jan 1, 2008

At the date of observation

Value

Absolute change

Change from previous value

jan 1, 1987

43.26

+43.26

0.0%

jan 1, 1992

43.91

+0.65

1.5%

jan 1, 1995

45.8

+1.89

4.3%

jan 1, 1998

46.39

+0.59

1.29%

jan 1, 2001

46.09

-0.3

-0.65%

jan 1, 2005

46.01

-0.08

-0.17%

jan 1, 2008

46.73

+0.72

1.56%

jan 1, 2011

45.75

-0.98

-2.1%

jan 1, 2014

46.44

+0.69

1.51%

Ranking of countries by current statistics by years

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