Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax in Norway
Norway: Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax was 0.3146 in 2022. ▲ Rising
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax in Norway, 1991–2022
Source: World Inequality Database (WID.world) (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
Norway recorded 0.3146 for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in 2022. That is the highest value across all 11 years on record.
The figure is up 6.7% on the previous year and up 15.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Norway peaked at 0.3146 in 2022 and was at its lowest, 0.1849, in 1991.
That places Norway 98th out of 109 countries with data for 2022, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 11 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.2038 | 0.1849 | 0.2227 | 2 |
| 2000s | 0.2526 | 0.2467 | 0.2617 | 3 |
| 2010s | 0.2666 | 0.2553 | 0.2726 | 3 |
| 2020s | 0.2963 | 0.2795 | 0.3146 | 3 |
Countries ranked near Norway
- 96 United Kingdom 0.3185 compare
- 97 Slovenia 0.3181 compare
- 99 Netherlands 0.3113 compare
- 100 Austria 0.3059 compare
- 101 Slovakia 0.2969 compare
More poverty & inequality data for Norway
- 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 1.41 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 4,220 kg per hectare (2024)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 41.4% (2023)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.004 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.0703 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.0703 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.0768 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 17.4% (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.1427 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Norway?
- Income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Norway was 0.3146 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 Norway?
- The highest recorded value was 0.3146 in 2022.
- What is the lowest income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax recorded in Norway?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.1849 in 1991.
- How does Norway rank for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax?
- Norway ranks 98th out of 109 countries with data for 2022.
- Is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax rising or falling in Norway?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Norway 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.