Income share held by the richest 10% in Gambia

The richest 10% of people in Gambia received 30.5% of total income or consumption in 2020.

Measure: Income share held by the richest 10% Unit: % of total income or consumption Data: 1998 to 2020 Source: World Bank
Gambia, 2020 30.5% % of total income or consumption
Change from 2015 +1.8percentage points 2015: 28.7%

Income share held by the richest 10% in Gambia over time

View
Places
1 selected
Gambia

% of total income or consumption. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Income share held by the richest 10% (% of total income or consumption), 2003 to 2020
Period Gambia
2020 30.5%
2015 28.7%
2010 34.9%
2003 36.7%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • The previous available figure was 28.7% in 2015, a change of +1.8 percentage points.
  • Since 1998, when it was 37.6%, the figure has changed by −7.1 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.DST.10TH.10 · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1998 to 2020 for Gambia
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform