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How unequal are incomes in the UK, compared with other countries?
United Kingdom: 0.367 Gini coefficient of disposable income, 0 to 1, 8th of 38 (2023).
Income inequality (Gini coefficient): every country in the OECD's table with a figure within three years of the newest year published; each country's newest year is used and named on the row, highest first. 38 rows. Equal figures share a rank and are printed as ties; the order within a tie is alphabetical and means nothing. The highlighted row is United Kingdom, 8th of 38.
| # | Name | Gini coefficient of disposable income, 0 to 1 | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Costa Rica | 0.458 | 2025 |
| 2 | Brazil | 0.451 | 2022 |
| 3 | Chile | 0.448 | 2022 |
| 4 | Türkiye | 0.427 | 2022 |
| 5 | Mexico | 0.400 | 2022 |
| 6 | United States | 0.394 | 2023 |
| 7 | Bulgaria | 0.385 | 2023 |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 0.367 | 2023 |
| 9 | Lithuania | 0.355 | 2023 |
| 10 | Israel | 0.342 | 2023 |
| 11 | Latvia | 0.340 | 2023 |
| 12 | New Zealand | 0.326 | 2022 |
| 13 | Italy | 0.325 | 2023 |
| 14 | Korea | 0.323 | 2023 |
| 15 | Portugal | 0.320 | 2023 |
| 16 | Greece | 0.320 | 2023 |
| 17 | Switzerland | 0.315 | 2023 |
| 18 | Spain | 0.312 | 2023 |
| 19 | Estonia | 0.311 | 2023 |
| 20 | Netherlands | 0.311 | 2024 |
| 21 | Germany | 0.307 | 2023 |
| 22 | Canada | 0.306 | 2023 |
| 23 | Croatia | 0.302 | 2023 |
| 24 | France | 0.299 | 2023 |
| 25 | Luxembourg | 0.296 | 2023 |
| 26 | Sweden | 0.289 | 2024 |
| 27 | Austria | 0.288 | 2023 |
| 28 | Hungary | 0.282 | 2023 |
| 29 | Romania | 0.282 | 2023 |
| 30 | Ireland | 0.281 | 2023 |
| 31 | Finland | 0.279 | 2024 |
| 32 | Denmark | 0.276 | 2022 |
| 33 | Norway | 0.259 | 2023 |
| 34 | Poland | 0.257 | 2023 |
| 35 | Belgium | 0.254 | 2023 |
| 36 | Slovenia | 0.247 | 2023 |
| 37 | Czechia | 0.242 | 2023 |
| 38 | Slovak Republic | 0.213 | 2023 |
What this table establishes
The table establishes the Gini coefficient of disposable income each country reported for the year shown.
It does not establish why countries differ, what any country should spend or provide, or that a rank is a judgement on a health or economic system.
How it is made
Each row is the figure the publisher printed, in Gini coefficient of disposable income, 0 to 1. Rows are ordered highest first; nothing is estimated, weighted or adjusted by Civometry.
Household disposable income after taxes and transfers, equivalised; 0 would be everyone equal and 1 one household with everything. Survey years differ between countries.
Source: OECD, OECD Income Distribution Database · OECD terms and conditions (free reuse with attribution). Period: each country's latest reported year. The rank is Civometry’s ordering of published figures, not a judgement on anyone in the table.
United Kingdom: 0.367 Gini coefficient of disposable income, 0 to 1, 8th of 38 (2023).