Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Czechia
Czechia: Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population was 0.238 in 2023. ▼ Falling
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Czechia, 2004–2023
Source: OECD (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
The most recent figure for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Czechia is 0.238, measured in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 20 years on record.
The figure is down 0.5% on the previous year and down 7.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Czechia peaked at 0.2664 in 2004 and was at its lowest, 0.238, in 2023.
That places Czechia 38th out of 39 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 20 years of available data.
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Czechia, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 0.2664 | — |
| 2005 | 0.2578 | -3.2% |
| 2006 | 0.2569 | -0.3% |
| 2007 | 0.2517 | -2.0% |
| 2008 | 0.2556 | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 0.2524 | -1.3% |
| 2010 | 0.2552 | +1.1% |
| 2011 | 0.2564 | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 0.2548 | -0.6% |
| 2013 | 0.2568 | +0.8% |
| 2014 | 0.2547 | -0.8% |
| 2015 | 0.2546 | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 0.2495 | -2.0% |
| 2017 | 0.2427 | -2.7% |
| 2018 | 0.2412 | -0.6% |
| 2019 | 0.2405 | -0.3% |
| 2020 | 0.2532 | +5.3% |
| 2021 | 0.2441 | -3.6% |
| 2022 | 0.2392 | -2.0% |
| 2023 | 0.238 | -0.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.2568 | 0.2517 | 0.2664 | 6 |
| 2010s | 0.2506 | 0.2405 | 0.2568 | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.2436 | 0.238 | 0.2532 | 4 |
Countries ranked near Czechia
More poverty & inequality data for Czechia
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 8 surveys (2025)
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via 0 surveys per person (2025)
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via 0 surveys per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 1.45 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 6,070 kg per hectare (2023)
- Cereal yield vs extreme poverty, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2023)
- Cereal yield vs extreme poverty, annual growth rate 2.37 % change on previous year (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, gaps filled 33.7 (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 33.7% (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Czechia?
- Income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Czechia was 0.238 in 2023, according to OECD (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population recorded in Czechia?
- The highest recorded value was 0.2664 in 2004.
- What is the lowest income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population recorded in Czechia?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.238 in 2023.
- How does Czechia rank for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population?
- Czechia ranks 38th out of 39 countries with data for 2023.
- Is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population rising or falling in Czechia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Czechia data come from?
- The figures come from OECD (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population. 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.