What has changed

Gini coefficient increased from 30.1 in 2024 to 31.2 in 2025 (+3.7%).

Gini coefficient increased from 29.3 in 2020 to 31.2 in 2025 (+6.5%).

How unequally is income shared? The Gini coefficient

The Gini coefficient scores disposable income inequality from 0 to 100. 0 means everyone has the same income; 100 means one person has everything. Cyprus, 2014-2025.

Eurostat labels each figure by the year of the EU-SILC survey; the income it describes is from the year before the survey — a 2025 figure reflects 2024 income.

How Cyprus compares with the rest of the EU

Gini coefficient of disposable income, 2025, EU27 member states ranked highest to lowest
Rank	Country	Gini coefficient
1	Bulgaria	37.7
2	Latvia	35.6
3	Lithuania	35.5
4	Greece	31.6
5	Cyprus	31.2
6	Italy	31.0
joint 7	Portugal	30.9
joint 7	Estonia	30.9
9	Spain	30.8
10	Luxembourg	30.5
11	France	30.4
12	Germany	30.1
13	Hungary	29.5
14	Malta	29.2
15	Sweden	28.6
16	Croatia	28.5
17	Denmark	28.2
18	Austria	27.4
19	Romania	27.3
20	Ireland	27.2
21	Finland	27.1
22	Netherlands	25.9
23	Poland	24.9
24	Slovenia	24.6
25	Czechia	24.0
26	Belgium	23.4
27	Slovakia	23.0

EU average (27 countries): 29.2 — a reference line, not ranked alongside the 27 states above. Every row is 2025, the same year for every country.

Two subpopulations, never summed

This table publishes Gini for the whole population (all ages). Eurostat separately publishes a child-only (under 18) Gini from the same table — a different subpopulation, not a breakdown of the total, so this page never adds or compares the two as if they were parts of one whole.

The S80/S20 ratio

The richest fifth of the population had 4.6 times the income of the poorest fifth in 2025. Cyprus, 2003-2025.

Break in series, 2008

Eurostat flags a break in series for Cyprus’s S80/S20 ratio at 2008 — a change in methodology or inputs, not a real jump in the gap between richest and poorest; do not read the years either side of it as one smooth trend.

How Cyprus compares with the rest of the EU

S80/S20 income quintile share ratio, 2025, EU27 member states ranked highest to lowest
Rank	Country	S80/S20 ratio
1	Bulgaria	6.94
2	Latvia	6.68
3	Lithuania	6.54
4	Spain	5.24
5	Greece	5.17
6	Italy	5.13
7	Estonia	5.07
8	Portugal	4.86
9	Croatia	4.78
10	France	4.74
joint 11	Hungary	4.68
joint 11	Germany	4.68
joint 13	Cyprus	4.60
joint 13	Luxembourg	4.60
15	Sweden	4.58
16	Malta	4.49
17	Romania	4.37
18	Austria	4.25
19	Denmark	4.12
20	Finland	3.93
21	Ireland	3.89
22	Netherlands	3.76
23	Poland	3.63
24	Slovenia	3.55
25	Czechia	3.34
26	Slovakia	3.27
27	Belgium	3.25

EU average (27 countries): 4.62 — a reference line, not ranked alongside the 27 states above. Every row is 2025, the same year for every country.

Eurostat labels each figure by the year of the EU-SILC survey; the income it describes is from the year before the survey.

Who is at risk of poverty?

Cyprus only, 1995-2025 — an EU comparison for these two measures isn't available on this site yet.

The poverty line here is relative, not a fixed euro amount

The at-risk-of-poverty rate counts people with income below 60% of Cyprus’s own median income that year — a relative line drawn from Cyprus’s own income distribution, not a common euro threshold shared with any other country.

AROPE (at risk of poverty or social exclusion) combines three separate conditions — low income, severe material and social deprivation, or living in a very-low-work-intensity household — into one headline share. It cannot be split back into those three from this page, and it is never presented as the at-risk-of-poverty rate plus something else added on.

Mean vs. median income — the gap

Cyprus only, 1995-2025 — a different question from the EU-ranked measures above, so never placed beside another country's figure.

Mean equivalised income

€26,200

2025

Median equivalised income

€22,066

2025

Gap (mean minus median)

€4,134^*

2025

The mean is the arithmetic average; the median is the middle person’s income. When the mean sits well above the median, that gap is itself a sign of income concentrated at the top — the two are never used as interchangeable measures of “average income”.

Source: Eurostat.

^* Calculated by Humanity Observatory from published figures.

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