Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax in Montenegro
Montenegro: Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax was 0.4597 in 2021. ▲ Rising
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax in Montenegro, 1984–2021
Source: World Inequality Database (WID.world) (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
The most recent figure for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Montenegro is 0.4597, measured in 2021.
That represents a change of down 0.4% on the previous year and down 3.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Montenegro peaked at 0.5009 in 2015 and was at its lowest, 0.3725, in 1990.
Montenegro ranks 73rd of 109 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 19 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 0.3916 | 0.3816 | 0.4138 | 5 |
| 1990s | 0.3849 | 0.3725 | 0.3973 | 2 |
| 2000s | 0.4441 | 0.4101 | 0.4594 | 5 |
| 2010s | 0.4793 | 0.4689 | 0.5009 | 5 |
| 2020s | 0.4606 | 0.4597 | 0.4615 | 2 |
Countries ranked near Montenegro
More poverty & inequality data for Montenegro
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 6 surveys (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 1.8 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 3,315 kg per hectare (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 36.8% (2021)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.121 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 27.6% (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.0864 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.0864 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.1021 (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.1992 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Montenegro?
- Income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Montenegro was 0.4597 in 2021, 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 Montenegro?
- The highest recorded value was 0.5009 in 2015.
- What is the lowest income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax recorded in Montenegro?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.3725 in 1990.
- How does Montenegro rank for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax?
- Montenegro ranks 73rd out of 109 countries with data for 2021.
- Is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax rising or falling in Montenegro?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Montenegro 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.