Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Romania
Romania: Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population was 0.2794 in 2023. ▼ Falling
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Romania, 2006–2023
Source: OECD (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
In 2023, income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Romania stood at 0.2794. That is the lowest value across all 18 years on record.
That represents a change of down 10.1% on the previous year and down 18.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Romania peaked at 0.3682 in 2006 and was at its lowest, 0.2794, in 2023.
Romania ranks 30th of 39 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 18 years of available data.
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Romania, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 0.3682 | — |
| 2007 | 0.3517 | -4.5% |
| 2008 | 0.3434 | -2.4% |
| 2009 | 0.3311 | -3.6% |
| 2010 | 0.3351 | +1.2% |
| 2011 | 0.338 | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 0.34 | +0.6% |
| 2013 | 0.342 | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 0.3598 | +5.2% |
| 2015 | 0.3412 | -5.2% |
| 2016 | 0.3261 | -4.4% |
| 2017 | 0.3471 | +6.5% |
| 2018 | 0.3458 | -0.4% |
| 2019 | 0.335 | -3.1% |
| 2020 | 0.3369 | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 0.3183 | -5.5% |
| 2022 | 0.3106 | -2.4% |
| 2023 | 0.2794 | -10.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.3486 | 0.3311 | 0.3682 | 4 |
| 2010s | 0.341 | 0.3261 | 0.3598 | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.3113 | 0.2794 | 0.3369 | 4 |
Countries ranked near Romania
More poverty & inequality data for Romania
- 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 1.71 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 4,021 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 10.64 % change on previous year (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, gaps filled 27.54 (2022)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 27.5% (2022)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Romania?
- Income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population in Romania was 0.2794 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 Romania?
- The highest recorded value was 0.3682 in 2006.
- What is the lowest income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population recorded in Romania?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.2794 in 2023.
- How does Romania rank for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population?
- Romania ranks 30th 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 Romania?
- Over the last ten years it is down 18.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Romania 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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The Gini coefficient measures inequality on a scale from 0 to 1. Higher values indicate higher inequality.