List of countries according to income distribution
Application of the Gini coefficient to determine income inequality (2014)
List of countries according to income distribution ; based on the Gini coefficient , a measure of inequality . The higher the Gini coefficient, the more unequal the income distribution. The individual values in the list come partly from different time periods and studies (limited comparability).
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| country | Gini index in% |
Ratio of income of the richest 10% to the poorest 10% 1 |
Ratio of income of the richest 20% to the poorest 20% 1 |
year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Slovenia
|
23.4 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 2018 |
 Ukraine
|
26.1 | 4.9 | 3.5 | 2018 |
 Czech Republic
|
24.0 | 5.7 | 3.7 | 2018 |
 Belgium
|
25.7 | 7.2 | 4.3 | 2018 |
 Moldova
|
26.3 | 5.3 | 3.7 | 2016 |
 Kosovo
|
26.5 | 5.7 | 3.8 | 2016 |
 Slovakia
|
26.5 | 6.7 | 4.1 | 2011 |
 Kazakhstan
|
26.9 | 5.3 | 3.7 | 2015 |
 Belarus
|
27.0 | 5.6 | 3.8 | 2016 |
 Finland
|
27.1 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 2015 |
 Norway
|
27.5 | 6.4 | 4.1 | 2015 |
 Algeria
|
27.6 | 5.7 | 4.0 | 2011 |
 Iceland
|
27.8 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 2014 |
 Austria
|
27.9 | 7.6 | 4.7 | 2017 |
 Sweden
|
28.0 | 7.3 | 4.2 | 2017 |
 Netherlands
|
28.2 | 6.6 | 4.2 | 2015 |
 Albania
|
29.0 | 6.2 | 4.2 | 2012 |
 Denmark
|
29.1 | 8.1 | 4.3 | 2017 |
 Germany
|
31.1 | 6.9 | 4.3 | 2018 |
 Poland
|
29.1 | 7.3 | 4.5 | 2017 |
 Iraq
|
29.5 | 6.4 | 4.4 | 2012 |
 Hungary
|
30.4 | 7.9 | 4.9 | 2015 |
 Croatia
|
31.1 | 8.6 | 5.3 | 2015 |
 Lebanon
|
31.5 | 8.0 | 5.1 | 2011 |
 South Korea
|
31.6 | 7.8 | 4.7 | 2011 |
 Egypt
|
31.8 | 7.1 | 4.6 | 2015 |
 Mongolia
|
32.3 | 7.6 | 5.1 | 2016 |
 Switzerland
|
32.3 | 7.9 | 5.1 | 2015 |
 Bangladesh
|
32.4 | 7.2 | 4.8 | 2016 |
 Armenia
|
32.5 | 7.7 | 5.1 | 2016 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
32.7 | 7.6 | 5.3 | 2015 |
 France
|
32.7 | 8.6 | 5.2 | 2015 |
 Nepal
|
32.8 | 7.5 | 5.0 | 2010 |
 Ireland
|
32.9 | 8.2 | 5.0 | 2011 |
 Mali
|
33.0 | 7.8 | 5.2 | 2009 |
 Liberia
|
33.2 | 8.1 | 5.4 | 2014 |
 United Kingdom
|
33.2 | 8.8 | 5.4 | 2015 |
 Pakistan
|
33.5 | 7.4 | 4.8 | 2015 |
 Japan
|
33.6 | 7.5 | 4.4 | 2011 |
 Guinea
|
33.7 | 8.8 | 5.5 | 2012 |
 Jordan
|
33.7 | 7.9 | 5.2 | 2010 |
 Palestine
|
33.7 | 8.7 | 5.6 | 2016 |
 Luxembourg
|
33.8 | 9.1 | 5.7 | 2015 |
 Canada
|
34.0 | 10.5 | 6.2 | 2013 |
 Sierra Leone
|
34.0 | 8.1 | 5.4 | 2011 |
 Tajikistan
|
34.0 | 8.8 | 5.6 | 2015 |
 Latvia
|
34.2 | 10.4 | 5.8 | 2015 |
 Niger
|
34.3 | 8.4 | 5.4 | 2014 |
 Estonia
|
34.6 | 9.0 | 5.4 | 2014 |
 Australia
|
34.7 | 9.4 | 5.8 | 2010 |
 Kyrgyzstan
|
34.8 | 8.6 | 5.5 | 2002 2 |
 Burkina Faso
|
35.3 | 8.2 | 5.3 | 2014 |
 Uzbekistan
|
35.3 | 9.8 | 5.9 | 2003 |
 Italy
|
35.4 | 14.3 | 7.0 | 2015 |
 Portugal
|
35.5 | 11.4 | 6.4 | 2015 |
 North Macedonia
|
35.6 | 14.7 | 7.3 | 2014 |
 Tunisia
|
35.8 | 10.4 | 6.4 | 2010 |
 Gambia
|
35.9 | 9.6 | 5.9 | 2015 |
 Romania
|
35.9 | 14.5 | 8.0 | 2015 |
 Greece
|
36.0 | 13.8 | 7.1 | 2015 |
 Thailand
|
36.0 | 8.9 | 5.8 | 2015 |
 Spain
|
36.2 | 13.8 | 7.3 | 2015 |
 New Zealand
|
36.2 | 12.5 | 6.8 | 1997 |
 Laos
|
36.2 | 9.3 | 5.9 | 2012 |
 Sri Lanka
|
36.4 | 11.3 | 6.8 | 2009 |
 Azerbaijan
|
36.5 | 9.7 | 6.0 | 2001 2 |
 Georgia
|
36.5 | 10.8 | 6.5 | 2016 |
 Yemen
|
36.7 | 9.8 | 6.1 | 2014 |
 India
|
36.8 | 7.3 | 4.9 | 2007 |
 Bhutan
|
36.9 | 10.3 | 6.6 | 2017 |
 Lithuania
|
37.4 | 13.6 | 7.2 | 2015 |
 Bulgaria
|
37.4 | 14.4 | 7.3 | 2014 |
 Russia
|
37.7 | 10.6 | 6.6 | 2015 |
 Tanzania
|
37.8 | 10.0 | 6.2 | 2011 |
 Gabon
|
38.0 | 12.6 | 7.4 | 2017 |
 Myanmar
|
38.1 | 10.6 | 6.3 | 2015 |
 Burundi
|
38.6 | 11.1 | 6.7 | 2013 |
 Iran
|
38.8 | 12.4 | 7.4 | 2014 |
 Mauritania
|
39.0 | 12.0 | 7.4 | 2000 2nd |
 Ethiopia
|
39.1 | 12.1 | 7.1 | 2015 |
 Vietnam
|
39.3 | 10.4 | 6.2 | 2010 |
 Indonesia
|
39.5 | 10.3 | 6.6 | 2013 |
 Morocco
|
39.5 | 11.7 | 7.2 | 2013 |
 Uruguay
|
39.7 | 13.5 | 7.9 | 2016 |
 El Salvador
|
40.0 | 13.3 | 7.9 | 2016 |
 Senegal
|
40.3 | 12.8 | 7.5 | 2011 |
 Trinidad and Tobago
|
40.3 | 14.4 | 8.3 | 1992 |
 Cambodia
|
40.4 | 11.6 | 6.9 | 1997 2 |
 Turkmenistan
|
40.8 | 12.3 | 7.7 | 1998 2 |
 Kenya
|
40.8 | 13.2 | 7.7 | 2015 |
 Malaysia
|
41.0 | 13.6 | 8.2 | 2015 |
 Haiti
|
41.1 | 14.9 | 8.6 | 2012 |
 Israel
|
41.4 | 17.4 | 9.8 | 2012 |
 Ivory Coast
|
41.5 | 15.2 | 8.4 | 2015 |
 United States
|
41.5 | 18.0 | 9.4 | 2016 |
 Papua New Guinea
|
41.9 | 16.3 | 9.3 | 2009 |
 Turkey
|
41.9 | 14.6 | 8.5 | 2016 |
 Democratic Republic of Congo
|
42.1 | 15.2 | 8.8 | 2012 |
 People's Republic of China
|
42.2 | 16.4 | 8.7 | 2012 |
 Argentina
|
42.4 | 17.2 | 9.5 | 2016 |
 Ghana
|
42.4 | 15.9 | 8.9 | 2012 |
 Singapore
|
42.5 | 17.7 | 9.7 | 1998 |
 Madagascar
|
42.6 | 15.2 | 8.7 | 2012 |
 Angola
|
42.7 | 15.4 | 9.0 | 2008 |
 Uganda
|
42.8 | 14.9 | 8.4 | 2016 |
 Nigeria
|
43.0 | 16.4 | 9.1 | 2009 |
 Togo
|
43.1 | 16.6 | 9.7 | 2015 |
 Zimbabwe
|
43.2 | 13.5 | 8.6 | 2011 |
 Chad
|
43.3 | 18.0 | 9.6 | 2011 |
 Hong Kong ( PR China ) |
43.4 | 17.8 | 9.7 | 1996 |
 Mexico
|
43.4 | 15.8 | 8.7 | 2016 |
 Peru
|
43.8 | 20.4 | 10.6 | 2016 |
 Djibouti
|
44.1 | 20.1 | 10.2 | 2013 |
 Bolivia
|
44.6 | 29.2 | 12.6 | 2016 |
 Ecuador
|
45.0 | 21.4 | 10.7 | 2016 |
 Rwanda
|
45.1 | 15.8 | 8.7 | 2013 |
 Dominican Republic
|
45.3 | 18.4 | 10.4 | 2016 |
 Comoros
|
45.3 | 21.1 | 11.2 | 2013 |
 Chile
|
45.4 | 22.4 | 11.2 | 2015 |
 Jamaica
|
45.5 | 17.0 | 9.7 | 2004 |
 Malawi
|
45.5 | 16.8 | 9.4 | 2010 |
 Philippines
|
46.1 | 16.5 | 9.7 | 2000 2nd |
 Nicaragua
|
46.2 | 15.5 | 8.8 | 2014 |
 Cameroon
|
46.6 | 20.6 | 11.5 | 2014 |
 Venezuela
|
46.9 | 68.2 | 15.8 | 2006 |
 Cape Verde
|
47.2 | 18.5 | 10.7 | 2007 |
 Benin
|
47.8 | 37.6 | 16.3 | 2015 |
 Paraguay
|
47.9 | 23.3 | 11.8 | 2016 |
 Guatemala
|
48.3 | 22.4 | 11.9 | 2014 |
 Costa Rica
|
48.7 | 24.9 | 12.9 | 2016 |
 Republic of the Congo
|
48.9 | 23.7 | 12.8 | 2011 |
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|
50.0 | 49.1 | 16.9 | 2016 |
 Panama
|
50.4 | 34.5 | 16.6 | 2016 |
 Guinea-Bissau
|
50.7 | 26.3 | 12.6 | 2010 |
 Colombia
|
50.8 | 30.8 | 14.3 | 2016 |
 Brazil
|
51.3 | 33.7 | 15.8 | 2015 |
 Swaziland
|
51.5 | 26.7 | 14.2 | 2009 |
 Belize
|
53.3 | 47.1 | 18.0 | 1998 |
 Mozambique
|
54.0 | 28.4 | 16.2 | 2014 |
 Lesotho
|
54.2 | 45.4 | 20.8 | 2010 |
 Central African Republic
|
56.2 | 38.5 | 18.5 | 2008 |
 Zambia
|
57.1 | 44.1 | 21.1 | 2015 |
 Namibia
|
59.1 | 47.3 | 22.8 | 2015 |
 Botswana
|
60.5 | 45.1 | 23.2 | 2009 |
 South Africa
|
63.0 | 56.1 | 28.2 | 2014 |
- 1 Based on households
- 2 Study based on consumer spending
- 3 Information "Ratio of income of the richest 10% to the poorest 10%" for 2004
Changes
According to the OECD, income differences widened significantly from the mid-1980s to the middle of the first decade of the 21st century. A significant increase was observed especially from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Since then, inequality has increased again, albeit only slightly. In both time spans, inequality in Germany increased faster than the OECD average. In France, Finland, Japan, Sweden and the Netherlands, for example, the unequal distribution of income hardly changed between 1995 and 2006. In Spain and Ireland, wages for low-wage earners grew faster than for top workers during the same period.
In Germany, however, the income gap has increased significantly more than in the majority of the OECD countries: the highest paid ten percent of employees earned an average of 3.1 times as much in 2005 as the ten percent with the lowest wages. In 1995 it was only 2.8 times as much. In the 20 OECD countries for which data are available, only in the transition countries Hungary, Poland and South Korea and New Zealand have wages diverged even more.
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- ↑ United Nations Development Program Report 2004, p188-191 (PDF; 3.1 MB)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income (source: SILC) [ilc_di12]. Data source: Eurostat. Last accessed: February 17, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr Gini index according to the World Bank. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
- ^ CIA World Fact Book , ISSN 1553-8133
- ↑ Distribution of income: Beijing plans to publish Gini coefficient CRI, January 23, 2013
- ↑ Report OECD 2015 Income Distribution
- ↑ Financial situation of private households ( memento of the original from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (FSO, 2007). Data source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss Confederation. Last accessed: March 23, 2014.
- ↑ OECD, Employment Outlook 2007 for Germany, press release, June 19, 2007
- ↑ OECD statistics, doi: 10.1787 / 822437534501
See also
Web links
- Distribution of world wealth
- Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries , OECD Report on Income Distribution and Poverty 2008
- OECD Income Inequality The OECD in Facts and Figures 2011–2012: Economy, Environment, Society: Income Inequality