Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax by country
Redistributive impact of fiscal policy, Gini index (%)
Countries reporting
32
Highest
0.5%
Costa Rica
Lowest
0.2%
Slovakia
Median
0.3%
Years covered
12
2013–2024
Data points
313
What the numbers show
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 0.5% in Costa Rica; the lowest is 0.2% in Slovakia.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.3%, and the mean is 0.3%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.
Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 20 fell. The largest increase was in Turkey (up 10.7%), and the largest decrease in Slovakia (down 17.3%).
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Costa Rica | 0.5% | 2023 | down 5.2% | flat |
| 2 | Chile | 0.5% | 2022 | down 3.3% | flat |
| 3 | Turkey | 0.4% | 2023 | up 10.7% | rising |
| 4 | Mexico | 0.4% | 2022 | down 14.1% | falling |
| 5 | United States | 0.4% | 2024 | down 1.3% | flat |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 0.4% | 2023 | up 2.9% | flat |
| 7 | Lithuania | 0.4% | 2023 | up 2.8% | flat |
| 8 | Israel | 0.3% | 2022 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 9 | Latvia | 0.3% | 2023 | down 3.0% | flat |
| 10 | Portugal | 0.3% | 2023 | down 4.8% | falling |
| 11 | Greece | 0.3% | 2023 | down 7.8% | falling |
| 12 | Italy | 0.3% | 2023 | down 3.6% | flat |
| 13 | Spain | 0.3% | 2023 | down 11.3% | falling |
| 14 | New Zealand | 0.3% | 2023 | — | falling |
| 15 | Estonia | 0.3% | 2023 | down 13.2% | falling |
| 16 | South Korea | 0.3% | 2023 | down 15.1% | falling |
| 18 | Switzerland | 0.3% | 2022 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 19 | Canada | 0.3% | 2023 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 20 | Germany | 0.3% | 2021 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 22 | Netherlands | 0.3% | 2022 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 23 | Hungary | 0.3% | 2023 | down 3.0% | flat |
| 24 | Sweden | 0.3% | 2022 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 26 | Finland | 0.3% | 2023 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 27 | Austria | 0.3% | 2023 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 28 | Norway | 0.3% | 2022 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 29 | Poland | 0.3% | 2023 | down 10.7% | falling |
| 30 | Denmark | 0.3% | 2019 | up 4.9% | flat |
| 31 | Belgium | 0.3% | 2023 | — | flat |
| 32 | Iceland | 0.2% | 2018 | — | rising |
| 33 | Slovenia | 0.2% | 2023 | down 5.5% | falling |
| 34 | Czechia | 0.2% | 2023 | down 6.9% | falling |
| 35 | Slovakia | 0.2% | 2023 | down 17.3% | falling |
About this data
Redistributive impact of fiscal policy, Gini index (%)