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). 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.[1] [2]
UN and CIA list – income ratios and Gini indices Edit
Click sorting buttons to sort alphabetically or numerically. Can sort in ascending or descending order. The row number column on the left is fixed. 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 .CIA : Data from the Central Intelligence Agency 's The World Factbook .
Row1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178
Other estimates for the World: Gini = 63.0 in 2006 (Lafuente et al, 2006).[9]
EU27 countries Edit
European Union member states' Gini coefficients, according to Eurostat :[10]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Member state
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
Austria
27.4
27.6
27.0
27.6
27.2
27.2
27.9
26.8
Belgium
26.3
26.5
25.9
25.9
26.2
26.3
26.0
25.6
Bulgaria
35.0
33.6
35.4
35.4
37.0
37.7
40.2
39.6
Croatia
31.2
30.9
30.9
30.2
30.4
29.8
29.9
29.7
Cyprus
29.2
31.0
32.4
34.8
33.6
32.1
30.8
29.1
Czech Republic
25.2
24.9
24.6
25.1
25.0
25.1
24.5
24.0
Denmark
26.6
26.5
26.8
27.7
27.4
27.7
27.6
27.9
Estonia
31.9
32.5
32.9
35.6
34.8
32.7
31.6
30.6
Finland
25.8
25.9
25.4
25.6
25.2
25.4
25.3
25.9
France
30.8
30.5
30.1
29.2
29.2
29.3
29.3
28.5
Germany
29.0
28.3
29.7
30.7
30.1
29.5
29.1
31.1
Greece
33.5
34.3
34.4
34.5
34.2
34.3
33.4
32.3
Hungary
26.9
27.2
28.3
28.6
28.2
28.2
28.1
28.7
Ireland
29.8
30.5
30.7
31.1
29.8
29.5
30.6
28.9
Italy
32.5
32.4
32.8
32.4
32.4
33.1
32.7
33.4
Latvia
35.1
35.7
35.2
35.5
35.4
34.5
34.5
35.6
Lithuania
33.0
32.0
34.6
35.0
37.9
37.0
37.6
36.9
Luxembourg
27.2
28.0
30.4
28.7
28.5
31.0
30.9
33.2
Malta
27.2
27.1
27.9
27.7
28.1
28.5
28.3
28.7
Netherlands
25.8
25.4
25.1
26.2
26.7
26.9
27.1
27.0
Poland
31.1
30.9
30.7
30.8
30.6
29.8
29.2
27.8
Portugal
34.2
34.5
34.2
34.5
34.0
33.9
33.5
32.1
Romania
33.5
34.0
34.6
35.0
37.4
34.7
33.1
35.1
Slovakia
25.7
25.3
24.2
26.1
23.7
24.3
23.2
20.9
Slovenia
23.8
23.7
24.4
25.0
24.5
24.4
23.7
23.4
Spain
34.0
34.2
33.7
34.7
34.6
34.5
34.1
33.2
Sweden
26.0
26.0
26.0
26.9
26.7
27.6
28.0
27.0
Serbia [n 1]
—
—
38.0
38.6
38.2
38.6
37.8
35.6
Montenegro [n 2] [11]
—
—
38.5
36.5
36.5
36.5
36.7
European Union
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 Edit
Gini coefficient, before taxes and transfers Edit
Gini coefficient, before taxes and transfers[12]
Row1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
Gini coefficient, after taxes and transfers Edit
Gini coefficient, after taxes and transfers[12]
Row1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
Country
mid-70s
mid-80s
~ 1990
mid-90s
~ 2000
mid-2000s
Late 2000s
Australia
0.309
0.317
0.315
0.336
Austria
0.236
0.238
0.252
0.265
0.261
Belgium
0.274
0.287
0.289
0.271
0.259
Canada
0.304
0.293
0.287
0.289
0.318
0.317
0.324
Chile
0.427
0.403
0.394
Czech Republic
0.232
0.257
0.260
0.268
0.256
Denmark
0.221
0.226
0.215
0.226
0.232
0.248
Estonia
0.349
0.315
Finland
0.235
0.209
0.218
0.247
0.254
0.259
France
0.300
0.290
0.277
0.287
0.288
0.293
Germany
0.251
0.256
0.266
0.264
0.285
0.295
Greece
0.413
0.336
0.336
0.345
0.321
0.307
Hungary
0.273
0.294
0.293
0.291
0.272
Iceland
0.257
0.301
Ireland
0.331
0.324
0.304
0.314
0.293
Israel
0.326
0.329
0.338
0.347
0.378
0.371
Italy
0.309
0.297
0.348
0.343
0.352
0.337
Japan
0.304
0.323
0.337
0.321
0.329
Luxembourg
0.247
0.259
0.261
0.258
0.288
Mexico
0.452
0.519
0.507
0.474
0.476
Netherlands
0.263
0.272
0.292
0.297
0.292
0.284
0.294
New Zealand
0.271
0.318
0.335
0.339
0.335
0.330
Norway
0.222
0.243
0.261
0.276
0.250
Poland
0.316
0.349
0.305
Portugal
0.354
0.329
0.359
0.356
0.385
0.353
Slovak Republic
0.268
0.257
Slovenia
0.246
0.236
South Korea
0.306
0.315
Spain
0.371
0.337
0.343
0.342
0.319
0.317
Sweden
0.212
0.198
0.209
0.211
0.243
0.234
0.259
Switzerland
0.279
0.276
0.303
Turkey
0.434
0.490
0.430
0.409
United Kingdom
0.268
0.309
0.354
0.336
0.351
0.331
0.345
United States
0.316
0.337
0.348
0.361
0.357
0.380
0.378
References Edit
^ Underground economy and income inequality: two connected aspects in the oncoming context of Italian federalism Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine . By Iacopo Odoardi and Carmen Pagliari. Vol. 15 No. 1, 2011 Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine . Global & Local Economic Review .
^ 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 .
^ World Bank GINI index , accessed on November 3, 2017.
^ Data show the ratio of the household income or consumption share of the richest group to that of the poorest. Household income or consumption by percentage share (%) , The World Factbook , CIA , updated on January 24, 2008. Note: To calculate the value given in the table for this article, the highest 10% value was divided by the lowest 10% value.
^ Distribution of family income – Gini index , The World Factbook , CIA , accessed on November 24, 2011.
^ Data show the ratio of the income or expenditure share of the richest group to that of the poorest. Human Development Report 2009 , UNDP , accessed on July 30, 2011.
^ "| Human Development Reports" . hdr.undp.org . Retrieved 2019-03-04 .
^ a b Data for urban households only.
^ Lafuente Lechuga, Matilde; Losa Carmona, Antonio; Sánchez Martínez, Antonio. 2016. «Análisis de la evolución de la desigualdad económica mundial en los últimos años » (pdf). XVI Jornadas de ASEPUMA y II Encuentro Internacional . Consultado el 12 de abril de 2014.
^ "Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income – EU-SILC survey" . ec.europa.eu/eurostat . Eurostat . Retrieved 20 December 2019 .
^ "GINI Index for Montenegro" . 18 January 2018.
^ a b OECD. "Income Distribution and Poverty : by country –I nequalityY" . Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
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