Latin American Economic Review

Table 3 Gini index in Latin America and the Caribbean since the 1990s.

From: Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America

	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2014
Argentina		48.9	51.1	49.3	44.5	42.7
Bolivia			63.0	58.5	48.0	48.4
Brazil	60.5	59.6	59.2	56.6	53.5	51.5
Chile	57.3	55.7	55.6	52.7	51.4	50.5
Colombia		56.9	58.7	55.0	55.5	53.5
Costa Rica	45.3	45.7	47.4	47.8	48.1	48.5
Dom. Rep.		47.4	52.0	50.0	47.2	47.1
Ecuador		53.4	56.4	54.1	49.3	45.4
El Salvador		49.9	51.3	47.9	44.5	41.8
Guatemala			54.8	54.9	52.4	48.7
Honduras		55.5	54.7	59.5	53.4	50.6
Mexico	54.1	54.6	53.9	51.1	47.6	49.1
Nicaragua		56.2	56.8	51.2	45.7	47.1
Panama	58.6	57.8	57.7	54.0	51.9	50.7
Paraguay	40.8	58.2	54.7	51.4	51.8	51.7
Peru			50.8	51.8	46.2	44.1
Uruguay	42.4				45.3	41.6
Venezuela	44.4	47.8	48.3	52.4

When the Gini index of a country in a given year was not available, either a linear trend was assumed or that of the closest year was used in its place

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