Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Latvia
Latvia: Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population was 0.3316 in 2023. ▼ Falling
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Latvia, 2004–2023
Source: OECD (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
Latvia recorded 0.3316 for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 20 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.6% on the previous year and down 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Latvia peaked at 0.3882 in 2005 and was at its lowest, 0.3316, in 2023.
That places Latvia 11th out of 39 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the middle of the range.
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 Latvia, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 0.3694 | — |
| 2005 | 0.3882 | +5.1% |
| 2006 | 0.3444 | -11.3% |
| 2007 | 0.3608 | +4.7% |
| 2008 | 0.3627 | +0.5% |
| 2009 | 0.3544 | -2.3% |
| 2010 | 0.3471 | -2.1% |
| 2011 | 0.3512 | +1.2% |
| 2012 | 0.3436 | -2.2% |
| 2013 | 0.3439 | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 0.339 | -1.4% |
| 2015 | 0.3377 | -0.4% |
| 2016 | 0.3329 | -1.4% |
| 2017 | 0.3422 | +2.8% |
| 2018 | 0.3373 | -1.4% |
| 2019 | 0.3337 | -1.1% |
| 2020 | 0.3442 | +3.1% |
| 2021 | 0.339 | -1.5% |
| 2022 | 0.3335 | -1.6% |
| 2023 | 0.3316 | -0.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.3633 | 0.3444 | 0.3882 | 6 |
| 2010s | 0.3409 | 0.3329 | 0.3512 | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.3371 | 0.3316 | 0.3442 | 4 |
Countries ranked near Latvia
More poverty & inequality data for Latvia
- 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 1.34 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 3,558 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 -15.01 % change on previous year (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, gaps filled 31.88 (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 31.9% (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 Latvia?
- Income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Latvia was 0.3316 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 Latvia?
- The highest recorded value was 0.3882 in 2005.
- What is the lowest income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population recorded in Latvia?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.3316 in 2023.
- How does Latvia rank for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population?
- Latvia ranks 11th 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 Latvia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Latvia 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.