Data · Prices, labour & income
Gini index: Vietnam, 1992–2022
- Latest (2022)
- 36.1 index points
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SI.POV.GINI
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
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.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1992 to 2022 (13 years of data). It moved from 35.7 to 36.1 index points, a change of 1.1%. The highest value was 39.3 in 2010 and the lowest 34.8 in 2014. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 7 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (index points) |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 36.1 |
| 2020 | 36.8 |
| 2018 | 35.7 |
| 2016 | 35.3 |
| 2014 | 34.8 |
| 2012 | 35.6 |
| 2010 | 39.3 |
| 2008 | 35.6 |
| 2006 | 35.8 |
| 2004 | 36.8 |
| 2002 | 37.0 |
| 1997 | 35.4 |
| 1992 | 35.7 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2022 | 36.1 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 33.3 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 34.4 |
| Malaysia | 2021 | 40.7 |
| Philippines | 2023 | 39.3 |
| Laos | 2024 | 34.7 |
| Myanmar | 2017 | 30.7 |
| China | 2022 | 36.0 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Gini index, Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name si_pov_gini, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.