Most Unequal Countries by Gini Index (2026)

South Africa has the highest Gini index at 63.0, indicating extreme income inequality. The Gini index ranges from 0 (perfect equality) to 100 (perfect inequality). Values above 40 are generally considered high inequality.

#1

South Africa

63.0

#2

Namibia

59.1

#3

Botswana

54.9

Most Unequal Countries by Gini Index - 171 countries ranked by Gini Index

Rank	Country	Gini Index	Population	Region
1	South Africa	63.0	63,100,945	Africa
2	Namibia	59.1	3,022,401	Africa
3	Botswana	54.9	2,359,609	Africa
4	Eswatini	54.6	1,235,549	Africa
5	Colombia	53.9	53,057,212	Americas
6	Brazil	51.6	213,421,037	Americas
7	Zambia	51.5	19,693,423	Africa
8	Angola	51.3	36,170,961	Africa
9	Zimbabwe	50.3	17,073,087	Africa
10	Panama	49.7	4,064,780	Americas
11	Mozambique	49.6	34,090,466	Africa
12	Republic of the Congo	48.9	6,142,180	Africa
13	Nicaragua	46.2	6,803,886	Americas
14	Costa Rica	45.8	5,309,625	Americas
15	Honduras	45.7	9,892,632	Americas
16	Comoros	45.3	919,901	Africa
17	Ecuador	45.2	18,103,660	Americas
18	Guatemala	45.2	18,079,810	Americas
19	Guyana	45.1	772,975	Americas
20	Lesotho	44.9	2,116,427	Africa
21	DR Congo	44.7	112,832,000	Africa
22	Venezuela	44.7	28,517,000	Americas
23	Turkey	44.5	85,664,944	Asia
24	Paraguay	44.2	6,109,644	Americas
25	South Sudan	44.0	15,786,898	Africa
26	Grenada	43.8	109,021	Americas
27	Saint Lucia	43.7	184,100	Americas
28	Mexico	43.5	130,575,786	Americas
29	Ghana	43.5	33,742,380	Africa
30	Chile	43.0	20,206,953	Americas
31	Central African Republic	43.0	6,470,307	Africa
32	Uganda	42.7	45,905,417	Africa
33	Argentina	42.4	46,735,004	Americas
34	Cape Verde	42.4	491,233	Africa
35	Cameroon	42.2	29,442,327	Africa
36	Bolivia	42.1	11,365,333	Americas
37	Papua New Guinea	41.9	11,781,559	Oceania
38	United States	41.8	340,110,988	Americas
39	Djibouti	41.6	1,066,809	Africa
40	Haiti	41.1	11,867,032	Americas
41	Turkmenistan	40.8	7,057,841	Asia
42	Malaysia	40.7	34,231,700	Asia
43	São Tomé and Príncipe	40.7	209,607	Africa
44	Tanzania	40.5	68,153,004	Africa
45	Trinidad and Tobago	40.2	1,367,764	Americas
46	Peru	40.1	34,350,244	Americas
47	Micronesia	40.1	105,564	Oceania
48	Uruguay	40.0	3,499,451	Americas
49	Jamaica	39.9	2,825,544	Americas
50	Belize	39.9	417,634	Americas
51	El Salvador	39.8	6,029,976	Americas
52	Morocco	39.5	36,828,330	Africa
53	Bulgaria	39.5	6,437,360	Europe
54	Rwanda	39.4	14,104,969	Africa
55	Philippines	39.3	114,123,600	Asia
56	Suriname	39.2	616,500	Americas
57	Tuvalu	39.1	10,643	Oceania
58	Dominican Republic	39.0	10,771,504	Americas
59	Laos	38.8	7,647,000	Asia
60	Gambia	38.8	2,422,712	Africa
61	Samoa	38.7	205,557	Oceania
62	Malawi	38.5	20,734,262	Africa
63	Equatorial Guinea	38.5	1,668,768	Africa
64	Kosovo	38.3	1,585,566	Europe
65	Gabon	38.0	2,469,296	Africa
66	Israel	37.9	10,134,800	Asia
67	Togo	37.9	8,095,498	Africa
68	Kenya	37.7	53,330,978	Africa
69	Sri Lanka	37.7	21,763,170	Asia
70	Burundi	37.5	12,332,788	Africa
71	Burkina Faso	37.4	24,070,553	Africa
72	Chad	37.4	19,340,757	Africa
73	Solomon Islands	37.1	750,325	Oceania
74	Madagascar	36.8	31,727,042	Africa
75	Mauritius	36.8	1,243,741	Africa
76	Yemen	36.7	32,684,503	Asia
77	Palestine	36.4	5,483,450	Asia
78	Senegal	36.2	18,593,258	Africa
79	Vietnam	36.1	101,343,800	Asia
80	Tajikistan	36.1	10,499,000	Asia
81	China	36.0	1,408,280,000	Asia
82	Lithuania	36.0	2,894,886	Europe
83	Iran	35.9	85,961,000	Asia
84	Mali	35.7	22,395,489	Africa
85	Sierra Leone	35.7	9,077,691	Africa
86	Marshall Islands	35.5	42,418	Oceania
87	Ivory Coast	35.3	31,719,275	Africa
88	Lebanon	35.3	5,490,000	Asia
89	Liberia	35.3	5,248,621	Africa
90	Qatar	35.1	3,173,024	Asia
91	Indonesia	34.9	284,438,782	Asia
92	Uzbekistan	34.6	37,859,698	Asia
93	Malta	34.6	574,250	Europe
94	Benin	34.4	13,224,860	Africa
95	Italy	34.3	58,927,633	Europe
96	Montenegro	34.3	623,327	Europe
97	Sudan	34.2	51,662,000	Africa
98	Barbados	34.1	267,800	Americas
99	Latvia	34.0	1,829,000	Europe
100	Nigeria	33.9	223,800,000	Africa
101	Portugal	33.9	10,749,635	Europe
102	Georgia	33.9	4,000,921	Asia
103	Australia	33.8	27,536,874	Oceania
104	Switzerland	33.8	9,082,848	Europe
105	Tunisia	33.7	11,972,169	Africa
106	Jordan	33.7	11,734,000	Asia
107	Luxembourg	33.6	681,973	Europe
108	Thailand	33.5	65,859,640	Asia
109	North Macedonia	33.5	1,822,612	Europe
110	Spain	33.4	49,315,949	Europe
111	Greece	33.4	10,400,720	Europe
112	Guinea-Bissau	33.4	1,781,308	Africa
113	Russia	33.0	146,028,325	Europe
114	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33.0	3,422,000	Europe
115	South Korea	32.9	51,159,889	Asia
116	Niger	32.9	26,312,034	Africa
117	Serbia	32.8	6,567,783	Europe
118	Germany	32.4	83,491,249	Europe
119	United Kingdom	32.4	69,281,437	Europe
120	Nauru	32.4	11,680	Oceania
121	Japan	32.3	123,210,000	Asia
122	Vanuatu	32.3	321,409	Oceania
123	Seychelles	32.1	122,729	Africa
124	Mauritania	32.0	4,927,532	Africa
125	France	31.8	66,351,959	Europe
126	Cyprus	31.8	1,442,614	Europe
127	Mongolia	31.4	3,544,835	Asia
128	Austria	31.2	9,200,931	Europe
129	Ethiopia	31.1	111,652,998	Africa
130	Canada	31.1	41,651,653	Americas
131	Bangladesh	30.9	169,828,911	Asia
132	Myanmar	30.7	51,316,756	Asia
133	Estonia	30.7	1,369,995	Europe
134	Fiji	30.7	900,869	Oceania
135	Hungary	30.6	9,539,502	Europe
136	Croatia	30.1	3,866,233	Europe
137	Nepal	30.0	29,911,840	Asia
138	Denmark	29.9	6,011,488	Europe
139	Iraq	29.8	46,118,793	Asia
140	Romania	29.8	19,036,031	Europe
141	Pakistan	29.6	241,499,431	Asia
142	Guinea	29.6	14,363,931	Africa
143	Albania	29.4	2,363,314	Europe
144	Sweden	29.3	10,605,098	Europe
145	Maldives	29.3	515,132	Asia
146	Kazakhstan	29.2	20,426,568	Asia
147	Ireland	29.0	5,458,600	Europe
148	Timor-Leste	28.7	1,391,221	Asia
149	Egypt	28.5	107,271,260	Africa
150	Poland	28.5	37,392,000	Europe
151	Bhutan	28.5	784,043	Asia
152	Kiribati	27.8	120,740	Oceania
153	Algeria	27.6	47,400,000	Africa
154	Finland	27.4	5,650,325	Europe
155	Kyrgyzstan	27.2	7,281,800	Asia
156	Armenia	27.2	3,076,200	Asia
157	Tonga	27.1	100,179	Oceania
158	Belgium	26.8	11,825,551	Europe
159	Moldova	26.8	2,749,076	Europe
160	Iceland	26.8	391,810	Europe
161	Syria	26.6	25,620,000	Asia
162	Azerbaijan	26.6	10,241,722	Asia
163	Norway	26.5	5,606,944	Europe
164	United Arab Emirates	26.4	11,294,243	Asia
165	Netherlands	25.7	18,100,436	Europe
166	Czechia	25.7	10,882,341	Europe
167	Ukraine	25.6	32,862,000	Europe
168	India	25.5	1,417,492,000	Asia
169	Slovenia	24.7	2,130,638	Europe
170	Belarus	24.4	9,109,280	Europe
171	Slovakia	23.8	5,413,813	Europe