Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax by country

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 after taxes and benefits.

Countries reporting

106

Highest

0.7154

Iraq

Lowest

0.2199

Iceland

Median

0.5188

Years covered

1980–2024

Data points

2,129

What the numbers show

Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax is currently reported for 106 countries. The highest value is 0.7154 in Iraq; the lowest is 0.2199 in Iceland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.5188, and the mean is 0.4911.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 39 countries rose and 66 fell. The largest increase was in Iraq (up 40.9%), and the largest decrease in Guinea-Bissau (down 22.6%).

Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Iraq	0.7154	2024	up 40.9%	rising
2	Mexico	0.6742	2022	down 5.9%	flat
3	South Africa	0.6562	2014	up 10.4%	rising
4	Peru	0.6536	2022	up 1.3%	falling
5	Brazil	0.6497	2022	up 1.7%	falling
6	Colombia	0.6444	2022	up 7.8%	falling
7	Zambia	0.6438	2022	down 2.7%	flat
8	Botswana	0.6382	2015	down 4.1%	flat
9	India	0.621	2022	up 2.0%	rising
10	Mozambique	0.6181	2022	down 5.4%	falling
11	Uganda	0.618	2019	down 2.3%	flat
12	Chile	0.6162	2022	down 11.9%	falling
13	Turkey	0.6069	2024	up 5.3%	flat
14	Palestine	0.6032	2023	up 0.2%	flat
15	Laos	0.6012	2018	up 2.9%	flat
16	Ghana	0.5977	2016	up 1.2%	rising
17	Thailand	0.5972	2021	down 0.3%	falling
18	Tanzania	0.5938	2017	up 1.5%	rising
19	Cameroon	0.5937	2021	down 5.8%	flat
20	Lebanon	0.5935	2024	down 5.8%	flat
21	Costa Rica	0.5933	2022	down 2.6%	flat
22	Tunisia	0.5881	2021	up 0.9%	falling
23	Rwanda	0.587	2023	down 7.4%	falling
24	Kenya	0.582	2021	down 0.9%	falling
25	Indonesia	0.5768	2018	up 2.2%	flat
26	Sri Lanka	0.5766	2016	down 2.7%	rising
27	Jordan	0.576	2013	down 3.3%	flat
28	Dominican Republic	0.575	2022	down 12.6%	falling
29	Cambodia	0.5692	2014	—	falling
30	Burkina Faso	0.5684	2021	down 3.1%	falling
31	Gambia	0.5681	2020	down 8.8%	falling
32	Togo	0.5666	2021	down 8.9%	falling
33	Madagascar	0.5641	2021	down 7.5%	falling
34	Taiwan	0.5579	2017	down 3.5%	rising
35	Senegal	0.5539	2021	down 4.8%	falling
36	Malawi	0.5498	2019	down 11.9%	falling
37	Burundi	0.5481	2020	down 2.4%	flat
38	Egypt	0.5468	2020	up 3.4%	flat
39	Hong Kong	0.5438	2024	down 1.9%	rising
40	Mali	0.5422	2021	up 4.6%	falling
41	Philippines	0.5419	2018	down 6.5%	falling
42	Cote d'Ivoire	0.5404	2021	down 9.8%	flat
43	Niger	0.5378	2021	up 3.7%	falling
44	El Salvador	0.5364	2022	down 13.9%	falling
45	Vietnam	0.5358	2018	up 0.1%	falling
46	Benin	0.5324	2021	down 12.5%	flat
47	Nigeria	0.5316	2022	up 1.0%	falling
47	Russia	0.5316	2017	down 7.7%	rising
49	Ecuador	0.529	2022	down 2.2%	falling
50	Singapore	0.5277	2014	up 5.3%	rising
51	Argentina	0.5242	2022	up 7.6%	falling
52	Guinea-Bissau	0.5238	2021	down 22.6%	falling
53	Israel	0.5191	2016	down 2.1%	rising
54	China	0.5185	2015	down 3.5%	rising
55	Bangladesh	0.5167	2016	down 6.9%	rising
55	Tajikistan	0.5167	2015	down 1.2%	flat
57	Iran	0.5149	2022	down 10.6%	falling
58	Georgia	0.5108	2024	up 4.1%	falling
59	Pakistan	0.5095	2018	down 4.6%	flat
60	Kyrgyzstan	0.5067	2019	up 3.3%	falling
61	Ethiopia	0.5036	2021	down 6.2%	falling
62	Uruguay	0.4979	2022	up 5.7%	falling
63	Mongolia	0.4961	2018	down 0.1%	flat
64	Kazakhstan	0.4937	2018	up 13.1%	flat
65	Bulgaria	0.4914	2023	up 15.2%	rising
66	Mauritania	0.482	2019	down 5.8%	falling
67	Romania	0.4783	2022	down 1.6%	rising
68	Estonia	0.4727	2022	up 3.5%	rising
69	Guinea	0.4688	2018	down 17.2%	falling
70	Lithuania	0.4683	2022	up 0.6%	rising
71	United States	0.4673	2024	down 3.7%	rising
72	Serbia	0.4615	2022	down 1.4%	rising
73	Montenegro	0.4597	2021	down 3.7%	rising
74	Albania	0.454	2022	up 3.3%	flat
75	Moldova	0.4534	2021	down 5.0%	rising
76	Malaysia	0.4525	2022	down 9.6%	falling
77	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.4454	2015	down 3.3%	rising
78	South Korea	0.4321	2022	down 1.5%	rising
79	Latvia	0.4247	2022	down 2.2%	rising
81	North Macedonia	0.4112	2018	down 11.9%	rising
82	Croatia	0.4069	2022	up 2.4%	rising
83	Poland	0.4011	2022	up 0.7%	rising
84	Greece	0.3819	2022	down 1.3%	falling
85	Australia	0.3787	2022	down 2.4%	rising
86	Portugal	0.3678	2022	down 3.1%	flat
87	Germany	0.3654	2022	down 1.7%	rising
88	Canada	0.3617	2022	down 5.0%	rising
90	Hungary	0.3579	2022	up 9.5%	rising
91	New Zealand	0.3514	2022	up 8.9%	falling
92	Spain	0.3441	2022	down 2.4%	falling
93	Italy	0.3367	2015	down 2.7%	flat
94	Cyprus	0.3335	2022	down 15.4%	falling
96	United Kingdom	0.3185	2021	up 2.3%	flat
97	Slovenia	0.3181	2022	down 3.5%	flat
98	Norway	0.3146	2022	up 15.7%	rising
99	Netherlands	0.3113	2022	up 2.5%	rising
100	Austria	0.3059	2017	down 5.1%	flat
101	Slovakia	0.2969	2022	down 9.9%	rising
102	Belgium	0.2869	2022	up 3.8%	falling
103	Switzerland	0.2852	2022	down 8.4%	falling
104	Finland	0.2785	2022	up 1.3%	flat
105	Czechia	0.2782	2022	down 4.8%	rising
106	France	0.2723	2022	down 0.9%	falling
107	Sweden	0.2588	2022	up 2.4%	rising
108	Denmark	0.2359	2022	up 13.5%	rising
109	Iceland	0.2199	2016	down 21.8%	falling

About this data

Indicator: Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after 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: 109 places, 2,129 data points, 1980–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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 after taxes and benefits.