Income inequality vs. GDP per capita in Chile
Chile: Income inequality vs. GDP per capita was 0.4302 in 2024. ▼ Falling
Income inequality vs. GDP per capita in Chile, 1987–2024
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
Chile recorded 0.4302 for income inequality vs. gdp per capita in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 17 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.5% on the previous year and down 8.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Chile peaked at 0.5724 in 1990 and was at its lowest, 0.4302, in 2024.
Chile ranks 17th of 120 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 17 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 0.5619 | 0.5619 | 0.5619 | 1 |
| 1990s | 0.5577 | 0.5481 | 0.5724 | 5 |
| 2000s | 0.4984 | 0.474 | 0.5276 | 4 |
| 2010s | 0.4608 | 0.4527 | 0.4687 | 4 |
| 2020s | 0.4442 | 0.4302 | 0.47 | 3 |
Countries ranked near Chile
More poverty & inequality data for Chile
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 4 surveys (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 1.17 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 6,606 kg per hectare (2024)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 18.9% (2023)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.102 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 21.3% (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.0897 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.0897 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.1084 (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.3774 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Chile?
- Income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Chile was 0.4302 in 2024, according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest income inequality vs. gdp per capita recorded in Chile?
- The highest recorded value was 0.5724 in 1990.
- What is the lowest income inequality vs. gdp per capita recorded in Chile?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.4302 in 2024.
- How does Chile rank for income inequality vs. gdp per capita?
- Chile ranks 17th out of 120 countries with data for 2024.
- Is income inequality vs. gdp per capita rising or falling in Chile?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Chile data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Income inequality vs. GDP per capita. 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.