Income inequality vs. GDP per capita in Sweden
Sweden: Income inequality vs. GDP per capita was 0.2928 in 2023. ▲ Rising
Income inequality vs. GDP per capita in Sweden, 1975–2023
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
Sweden recorded 0.2928 for income inequality vs. gdp per capita in 2023.
That represents a change of down 7.4% on the previous year and up 1.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Sweden peaked at 0.3161 in 2022 and was at its lowest, 0.2292, in 1981.
Sweden ranks 99th of 120 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 29 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.2428 | 0.2428 | 0.2428 | 1 |
| 1980s | 0.2299 | 0.2292 | 0.2306 | 2 |
| 1990s | 0.2507 | 0.2491 | 0.2524 | 2 |
| 2000s | 0.2669 | 0.2527 | 0.2812 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.287 | 0.2761 | 0.2997 | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.2988 | 0.2887 | 0.3161 | 4 |
Countries ranked near Sweden
More poverty & inequality data for Sweden
- 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 1.43 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 4,456 kg per hectare (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 41.4% (2023)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.007 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 28.0% (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.0725 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.0725 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.0823 (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.1694 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Sweden?
- Income inequality vs. gdp per capita in Sweden was 0.2928 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 Sweden?
- The highest recorded value was 0.3161 in 2022.
- What is the lowest income inequality vs. gdp per capita recorded in Sweden?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.2292 in 1981.
- How does Sweden rank for income inequality vs. gdp per capita?
- Sweden ranks 99th out of 120 countries with data for 2023.
- Is income inequality vs. gdp per capita rising or falling in Sweden?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sweden 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.