economic2022

Government spending benefiting the poorest 20 percent

Compare government spending benefiting the poorest 20 percent across 30 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2022 official-source slice.

Source: United Nations SDG Global Database30 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
50.2%
Median: 48.7%
Countries Covered
30
with available data
Highest
Latvia
93.1%
Lowest
Bhutan
1.7%
Top 5 Countries
1Latvia93.1%
2Estonia81.3%
3Germany80.4%
4Sweden75.0%
5Luxembourg73.9%
By Region
Key Findings
  • 30 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2022 observation.
  • Latvia has the highest published value (93.05322 %).
  • Bhutan has the lowest published value (1.65979 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (1.7%)High (93.1%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 50.2%)

About This Statistic

Share of government spending whose benefit accrues to the poorest income quintile, using the Q1 slice of official SDG indicator 1.b.1.

MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.

Methodology

Share of government spending whose benefit accrues to the poorest income quintile, using the Q1 slice of official SDG indicator 1.b.1.

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Latvia93.1%
2Estonia81.3%
3Germany80.4%
4Sweden75.0%
5Luxembourg73.9%
6Netherlands62.8%
7Slovakia59.4%
8Finland57.6%
9Austria56.8%
10Czech Republic55.9%
11Slovenia54.3%
12Croatia53.4%
13Ireland51.2%
14Portugal51.1%
15Malta48.8%
16Hungary48.6%
17Bulgaria48.5%
18Lithuania48.4%
19France48.2%
20Romania46.4%
21Spain46.3%
22Cyprus43.9%
23Greece41.2%
24Italy37.8%
25Serbia31.0%
26Denmark30.2%
27Poland28.1%
28Bangladesh25.9%
29Belgium25.8%
30Bhutan1.7%
Showing 30 of 30 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2022).

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