Brazil vs Colombia: Gini index
Gini index over time
- Brazil
- Colombia
How they compare
Colombia currently reports 54.4 against 50.3 in Brazil, a difference of 4.1.
That makes Colombia's figure about 1.1 times Brazil's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 26 shared years of data; in 1988 it was Brazil ahead.
Globally, Brazil ranks 5th and Colombia ranks 2nd of 121 countries.
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About this data
Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income (or, in some cases, consumption expenditure) among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution. A Lorenz curve plots the cumulative percentages of total income received against the cumulative number of recipients, starting with the poorest individual or household. The Gini index measures the area between the Lorenz curve and a hypothetical line of absolute equality, expressed as a percentage of the maximum area under the line. Thus a Gini index of 0 represents perfect equality, while an index of 100 implies perfect inequality.