France vs Portugal: Gini coefficient (before tax)

France
0.4592
in 2022
Portugal
0.4656
in 2022
France rank
95th
Portugal rank
92nd

Gini coefficient (before tax) over time

  • France
  • Portugal
00.20.40.6191019662022

How they compare

Portugal currently reports 0.4656 against 0.4592 in France, a difference of 0.0064.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 87 shared years of data; in 1936 it was France ahead.

France ranks 95th and Portugal ranks 92nd of 113 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Gini coefficient (before tax)
Source
World Inequality Database (WID.world) (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
113 places, 3,075 data points, 1820–2024
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The Gini coefficient measures inequality on a scale from 0 to 1. Higher values indicate higher inequality. Inequality is measured here in terms of income before taxes and benefits.