Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax in Italy
Italy: Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax was 0.3367 in 2015. ▬ Flat
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax in Italy, 2005–2015
Source: World Inequality Database (WID.world) (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
Italy recorded 0.3367 for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in 2015.
That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and down 2.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Italy peaked at 0.3459 in 2005 and was at its lowest, 0.3278, in 2009.
That places Italy 93rd out of 109 countries with data for 2015, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.3374 | 0.3278 | 0.3459 | 5 |
| 2010s | 0.3373 | 0.3345 | 0.3409 | 6 |
Countries ranked near Italy
More poverty & inequality data for Italy
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 8 surveys (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 1.2 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 5,059 kg per hectare (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 42.0% (2023)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.043 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 15.8% (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.0692 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.0692 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.0819 (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.2085 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Italy?
- Income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Italy was 0.3367 in 2015, 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 Italy?
- The highest recorded value was 0.3459 in 2005.
- What is the lowest income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax recorded in Italy?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.3278 in 2009.
- How does Italy rank for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax?
- Italy ranks 93rd out of 109 countries with data for 2015.
- Is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax rising or falling in Italy?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Italy 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.