Income inequality vs. GDP per capita in Estonia
Estonia: Income inequality vs. GDP per capita was 0.3071 in 2023. ▼ Falling
Income inequality vs. GDP per capita in Estonia, 1993–2023
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
Estonia recorded 0.3071 for income inequality vs. gdp per capita in 2023.
That represents a change of down 4.8% on the previous year and down 12.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Estonia peaked at 0.3943 in 1993 and was at its lowest, 0.3032, in 2018.
Estonia ranks 90th of 120 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 22 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.3943 | 0.3943 | 0.3943 | 1 |
| 2000s | 0.332 | 0.3118 | 0.3719 | 7 |
| 2010s | 0.3224 | 0.3032 | 0.3508 | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.3138 | 0.3071 | 0.3225 | 4 |
Countries ranked near Estonia
More poverty & inequality data for Estonia
- 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 1.35 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 3,410 kg per hectare (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 33.5% (2023)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.061 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 25.7% (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.0798 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.0798 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.1078 (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.1567 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Estonia?
- Income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Estonia was 0.3071 in 2023, 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 Estonia?
- The highest recorded value was 0.3943 in 1993.
- What is the lowest income inequality vs. gdp per capita recorded in Estonia?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.3032 in 2018.
- How does Estonia rank for income inequality vs. gdp per capita?
- Estonia ranks 90th out of 120 countries with data for 2023.
- Is income inequality vs. gdp per capita rising or falling in Estonia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Estonia 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.