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GCSE Geography · key term
A group containing one fifth, or 20%, of a set ranked by a characteristic such as income.
Used by Edexcel
Paper 1
Revise: Global inequalityA quintile contains one fifth of a ranked group. To examine household income inequality, rank households from lowest to highest income and divide them into five equally sized groups. Then compare the share of total income received by each group.
For quintiles, distinguish the percentage of people or households in a group from that group’s share of total income. Check what has been ranked.
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