Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax in Colombia
Colombia: Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax was 0.6444 in 2022. ▼ Falling
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax in Colombia, 2003–2022
Source: World Inequality Database (WID.world) (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
Colombia recorded 0.6444 for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in 2022.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.7% on the previous year and up 7.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Colombia peaked at 0.6523 in 2003 and was at its lowest, 0.5851, in 2017.
That places Colombia 6th out of 109 countries with data for 2022, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 17 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.6411 | 0.6286 | 0.6523 | 4 |
| 2010s | 0.5998 | 0.5851 | 0.6248 | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.6286 | 0.6196 | 0.6444 | 3 |
Countries ranked near Colombia
More poverty & inequality data for Colombia
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 9 surveys (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 1.65 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 4,422 kg per hectare (2024)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 25.2% (2023)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.393 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.0935 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.0935 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.1187 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 21.6% (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.4399 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Colombia?
- Income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Colombia was 0.6444 in 2022, according to World Inequality Database (WID.world) (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax recorded in Colombia?
- The highest recorded value was 0.6523 in 2003.
- What is the lowest income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax recorded in Colombia?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.5851 in 2017.
- How does Colombia rank for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax?
- Colombia ranks 6th out of 109 countries with data for 2022.
- Is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax rising or falling in Colombia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Colombia data come from?
- The figures come from World Inequality Database (WID.world) (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.