Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax in Lithuania
Lithuania: Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax was 0.3548 in 2023. ▲ Rising
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax in Lithuania, 2004–2023
Source: OECD (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data.
Analysis
Lithuania recorded 0.3548 for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in 2023.
That represents a change of down 1.4% on the previous year and up 1.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Lithuania peaked at 0.3805 in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.3208, in 2011.
Lithuania ranks 9th of 39 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 20 years of available data.
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax in Lithuania, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 0.3493 | — |
| 2005 | 0.3517 | +0.7% |
| 2006 | 0.3284 | -6.6% |
| 2007 | 0.3369 | +2.6% |
| 2008 | 0.3572 | +6.0% |
| 2009 | 0.365 | +2.2% |
| 2010 | 0.3285 | -10.0% |
| 2011 | 0.3208 | -2.3% |
| 2012 | 0.3499 | +9.1% |
| 2013 | 0.3509 | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 0.3805 | +8.4% |
| 2015 | 0.3716 | -2.3% |
| 2016 | 0.3775 | +1.6% |
| 2017 | 0.3737 | -1.0% |
| 2018 | 0.3612 | -3.3% |
| 2019 | 0.357 | -1.1% |
| 2020 | 0.3566 | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 0.3664 | +2.8% |
| 2022 | 0.36 | -1.8% |
| 2023 | 0.3548 | -1.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.3481 | 0.3284 | 0.365 | 6 |
| 2010s | 0.3572 | 0.3208 | 0.3805 | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.3594 | 0.3548 | 0.3664 | 4 |
Countries ranked near Lithuania
- 6 United States of America 0.3944 compare
- 7 Bulgaria 0.3847 compare
- 8 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.367 compare
- 10 Israel 0.3449 compare
- 11 Latvia 0.3399 compare
- 12 New Zealand 0.326 compare
More poverty & inequality data for Lithuania
- 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 1.2 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 4,187 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 -0.5439 % change on previous year (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, gaps filled 32.6 (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 32.6% (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 in Lithuania?
- Income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax in Lithuania was 0.3548 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 recorded in Lithuania?
- The highest recorded value was 0.3805 in 2014.
- What is the lowest income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax recorded in Lithuania?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.3208 in 2011.
- How does Lithuania rank for income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax?
- Lithuania ranks 9th out of 39 countries with data for 2023.
- Is income inequality: gini coefficient before and after tax rising or falling in Lithuania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Lithuania 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. 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.