List of countries by income equality
This is a list of countries or dependencies by income inequality metrics, including Gini coefficients. The Gini coefficient is a number between 0 and 1, where 0 corresponds with perfect equality (where everyone has the same income) and 1 corresponds with perfect inequality (where one person has all the income—and everyone else has no income).

World map of the Gini coefficients by country. Based on World Bank data ranging from 1992 to 2018.[1]
Income distribution can vary greatly from wealth distribution in a country (see List of countries by distribution of wealth). Income from black market economic activity is not included and is the subject of current economic research.[2][3]
UN, World Bank and CIA list – income ratios and Gini indices
- Row numbers are static. Other columns are sortable. This allows ranking of any column.
Key:
- R/P 10%
- The ratio of the average income of the richest 10% to the poorest 10%.
- R/P 20%
- The ratio of the average income of the richest 20% to the poorest 20%.
- Gini
- Gini index, a quantified representation of a nation's Lorenz curve. A Gini index of 0% expresses perfect equality, while index of 100% expresses maximal inequality.
- UN
- Data from the United Nations Development Programme.
- World Bank
- Data from the World Bank.
- CIA
- Data from the Central Intelligence Agency's The World Factbook.
EU27 countries
| Member state | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27.4 | 27.6 | 27.0 | 27.6 | 27.2 | 27.2 | 27.9 | 26.8 | 27.5 | |
| 26.3 | 26.5 | 25.9 | 25.9 | 26.2 | 26.3 | 26.1 | 25.7 | 25.1 | |
| 35.0 | 33.6 | 35.4 | 35.4 | 37.0 | 37.7 | 40.2 | 39.6 | 40.8 | |
| 31.2 | 30.9 | 30.9 | 30.2 | 30.4 | 29.8 | 29.9 | 29.7 | 29.2 | |
| 29.2 | 31.0 | 32.4 | 34.8 | 33.6 | 32.1 | 30.8 | 29.1 | 31.1 | |
| 25.2 | 24.9 | 24.6 | 25.1 | 25.0 | 25.1 | 24.5 | 24.0 | 24.0 | |
| 26.6 | 26.5 | 26.8 | 27.7 | 27.4 | 27.7 | 27.6 | 27.8 | 27.5 | |
| 31.9 | 32.5 | 32.9 | 35.6 | 34.8 | 32.7 | 31.6 | 30.6 | 30.5 | |
| 25.8 | 25.9 | 25.4 | 25.6 | 25.2 | 25.4 | 25.3 | 25.9 | 26.2 | |
| 30.8 | 30.5 | 30.1 | 29.2 | 29.2 | 29.3 | 28.8 | 28.5 | ||
| 29.0 | 28.3 | 29.7 | 30.7 | 30.1 | 29.5 | 29.1 | 31.1 | 29.7 | |
| 33.5 | 34.3 | 34.4 | 34.5 | 34.2 | 34.3 | 33.4 | 32.3 | 31.0 | |
| 26.9 | 27.2 | 28.3 | 28.6 | 28.2 | 28.2 | 28.1 | 28.7 | 28.0 | |
| 29.8 | 30.4 | 30.7 | 31.1 | 29.7 | 29.6 | 30.6 | 28.9 | ||
| 32.5 | 32.4 | 32.8 | 32.4 | 32.4 | 33.1 | 32.7 | 33.4 | ||
| 35.1 | 35.7 | 35.2 | 35.5 | 35.4 | 34.5 | 34.5 | 35.6 | 35.2 | |
| 33.0 | 32.0 | 34.6 | 35.0 | 37.9 | 37.0 | 37.6 | 36.9 | 35.4 | |
| 27.2 | 28.0 | 30.4 | 28.7 | 28.5 | 29.6 | 29.2 | 31.3 | 32.3 | |
| 27.2 | 27.1 | 28.0 | 27.7 | 28.1 | 28.6 | 28.2 | 28.7 | 28.0 | |
| 25.8 | 25.4 | 25.1 | 26.2 | 26.7 | 26.9 | 27.1 | 27.4 | 26.8 | |
| 31.1 | 30.9 | 30.7 | 30.8 | 30.6 | 29.8 | 29.2 | 27.8 | 28.5 | |
| 34.2 | 34.5 | 34.2 | 34.5 | 34.0 | 33.9 | 33.5 | 32.1 | 31.9 | |
| 33.5 | 34.0 | 34.6 | 35.0 | 37.4 | 34.7 | 33.1 | 35.1 | 34.8 | |
| 25.7 | 25.3 | 24.2 | 26.1 | 23.7 | 24.3 | 23.2 | 20.9 | 20.3 | |
| 23.8 | 23.7 | 24.4 | 25.0 | 24.5 | 24.4 | 23.7 | 23.4 | 23.9 | |
| 34.0 | 34.2 | 33.7 | 34.7 | 34.6 | 34.5 | 34.1 | 33.2 | 33.0 | |
| 26.0 | 26.0 | 26.0 | 26.9 | 26.7 | 27.6 | 28.0 | 27.0 | 27.6 | |
| — | — | 38.0 | 38.3 | 40.0 | 39.8 | 37.6 | 35.6 | ||
| — | — | 38.5 | 36.5 | 36.5 | 36.5 | 36.7 | |||
| 30.5 | 30.4 | 30.6 | 30.9 | 30.8 | 30.6 | 30.3 | 30.4 | ||
| Eurozone (EA19) | 30.6 | 30.5 | 30.7 | 31.0 | 30.7 | 30.7 | 30.4 | 30.6 |
OECD countries
Gini coefficient, before taxes and transfers
| Country | mid-70s | mid-80s | ~ 1990 | mid-90s | ~ 2000 | mid-2000s | Late 2000s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.467 | 0.476 | 0.465 | 0.469 | ||||
| 0.433 | 0.472 | ||||||
| 0.449 | 0.472 | 0.464 | 0.494 | 0.469 | |||
| 0.385 | 0.395 | 0.403 | 0.430 | 0.440 | 0.436 | 0.441 | |
| 0.441 | 0.414 | 0.426 | |||||
| 0.442 | 0.472 | 0.474 | 0.444 | ||||
| 0.373 | 0.396 | 0.417 | 0.415 | 0.417 | 0.416 | ||
| 0.504 | 0.458 | ||||||
| 0.343 | 0.387 | 0.479 | 0.478 | 0.483 | 0.465 | ||
| 0.380 | 0.370 | 0.473 | 0.490 | 0.485 | 0.483 | ||
| 0.439 | 0.429 | 0.459 | 0.471 | 0.499 | 0.504 | ||
| 0.448 | 0.426 | 0.446 | 0.466 | 0.454 | 0.436 | ||
| 0.452 | 0.496 | 0.463 | 0.497 | 0.466 | |||
| 0.365 | 0.382 | ||||||
| 0.472 | 0.476 | 0.494 | 0.504 | 0.513 | 0.498 | ||
| 0.420 | 0.437 | 0.508 | 0.516 | 0.557 | 0.534 | ||
| 0.345 | 0.403 | 0.432 | 0.443 | 0.462 | |||
| 0.383 | 0.427 | 0.421 | 0.454 | 0.482 | |||
| 0.453 | 0.532 | 0.517 | 0.491 | 0.494 | |||
| 0.426 | 0.473 | 0.474 | 0.484 | 0.424 | 0.426 | 0.426 | |
| 0.408 | 0.468 | 0.488 | 0.484 | 0.473 | 0.455 | ||
| 0.351 | 0.404 | 0.426 | 0.447 | 0.410 | |||
| 0.542 | 0.470 | ||||||
| 0.457 | 0.436 | 0.490 | 0.479 | 0.542 | 0.521 | ||
| 0.458 | 0.416 | ||||||
| 0.452 | 0.423 | ||||||
| 0.331 | 0.344 | ||||||
| 0.461 | |||||||
| 0.389 | 0.404 | 0.408 | 0.438 | 0.446 | 0.432 | 0.426 | |
| 0.409 | |||||||
| 0.470 | |||||||
| 0.338 | 0.419 | 0.439 | 0.453 | 0.458 | 0.445 | 0.456 | |
| 0.406 | 0.436 | 0.450 | 0.477 | 0.476 | 0.486 | 0.486 |
Gini coefficient, after taxes and transfers
| Country | mid-70s | mid-80s | ~ 1990 | mid-90s | ~ 2000 | mid-2000s | Late 2000s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.309 | 0.317 | 0.315 | 0.336 | ||||
| 0.236 | 0.238 | 0.252 | 0.265 | 0.261 | |||
| 0.274 | 0.287 | 0.289 | 0.271 | 0.259 | |||
| 0.304 | 0.293 | 0.287 | 0.289 | 0.318 | 0.317 | 0.324 | |
| 0.427 | 0.403 | 0.394 | |||||
| 0.232 | 0.257 | 0.260 | 0.268 | 0.256 | |||
| 0.221 | 0.226 | 0.215 | 0.226 | 0.232 | 0.248 | ||
| 0.349 | 0.315 | ||||||
| 0.235 | 0.209 | 0.218 | 0.247 | 0.254 | 0.259 | ||
| 0.300 | 0.290 | 0.277 | 0.287 | 0.288 | 0.293 | ||
| 0.251 | 0.256 | 0.266 | 0.264 | 0.285 | 0.295 | ||
| 0.413 | 0.336 | 0.336 | 0.345 | 0.321 | 0.307 | ||
| 0.273 | 0.294 | 0.293 | 0.291 | 0.272 | |||
| 0.257 | 0.301 | ||||||
| 0.331 | 0.324 | 0.304 | 0.314 | 0.293 | |||
| 0.326 | 0.329 | 0.338 | 0.347 | 0.378 | 0.371 | ||
| 0.309 | 0.297 | 0.348 | 0.343 | 0.352 | 0.337 | ||
| 0.304 | 0.323 | 0.337 | 0.321 | 0.329 | |||
| 0.247 | 0.259 | 0.261 | 0.258 | 0.288 | |||
| 0.452 | 0.519 | 0.507 | 0.474 | 0.476 | |||
| 0.263 | 0.272 | 0.292 | 0.297 | 0.292 | 0.284 | 0.294 | |
| 0.271 | 0.318 | 0.335 | 0.339 | 0.335 | 0.330 | ||
| 0.222 | 0.243 | 0.261 | 0.276 | 0.250 | |||
| 0.316 | 0.349 | 0.305 | |||||
| 0.354 | 0.329 | 0.359 | 0.356 | 0.385 | 0.353 | ||
| 0.268 | 0.257 | ||||||
| 0.246 | 0.236 | ||||||
| 0.306 | 0.315 | ||||||
| 0.371 | 0.337 | 0.343 | 0.342 | 0.319 | 0.317 | ||
| 0.212 | 0.198 | 0.209 | 0.211 | 0.243 | 0.234 | 0.259 | |
| 0.279 | 0.276 | 0.303 | |||||
| 0.434 | 0.490 | 0.430 | 0.409 | ||||
| 0.268 | 0.309 | 0.354 | 0.336 | 0.351 | 0.331 | 0.345 | |
| 0.316 | 0.337 | 0.348 | 0.361 | 0.357 | 0.380 | 0.378 |
See also
Notes
- Serbia is a negotiating candidate to the EU.
- Montenegro is a negotiating candidate to the EU.
- Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008. Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognised as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states have recognised Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.
References
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- The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries all over the World: First Results over the Period 1999 to 2003. December 2004. By Friedrich Schneider (University of Linz and IZA Bonn). Institute for the Study of Labor.
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- Monino, Jean-Louis; Sedkaoui, Soraya (2016-03-11), "Data Development Mechanisms", Big Data, Open Data and Data Development, Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 43–72, doi:10.1002/9781119285199.ch3, ISBN 978-1-119-28519-9, retrieved 2021-06-26
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Further reading
- "An Overview of Growing Income Inequalities in OECD Countries: Main Findings" (PDF), Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Growing, OECD Publishing, December 2011, ISBN 978-92-64-11163-9, retrieved 6 December 2011. This book released with two titles, depending on country of publication. However, the ISBN remains the same.CS1 maint: postscript (link)
- Fed's Brainard Says Middle Class Squeeze Poses Risks to Economy, May 2019, retrieved 15 May 2019 USA's Gini index is now .482 according to Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard.CS1 maint: postscript (link)
External links
- Global Peace Index Map of Gini data for 2007–2010
- Shadow economies all over the world : new estimates for 162 countries from 1999 to 2007. Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn, Claudio E. Montenegro. July 2010. World Bank.
- Allianz Global Wealth Report 2018.
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