How evenly is income shared?
Follow income inequality across EU countries and through time. Choose a survey year, then a country. Every published figure takes you to its source.
- Coverage:
- 27 EU member states
- Source:
- Eurostat · EU-SILC
A thought to take away
An average tells us how much. Inequality tells us how it is shared.
Explore income inequality
Compare EU country figures by survey year and follow one country over time.
European Union · survey year 2025
Income inequality across EU countries
Gini values run from 0 (more equal) to 100 (more unequal). Grey marks countries without a figure for this survey year.
- 23.0 to 24.9(5 countries)
- 25.9 to 27.4(5 countries)
- 28.2 to 30.1(6 countries)
- 30.4 to 30.9(5 countries)
- 31.0 to 37.7(6 countries)
- No data (0 countries; also land this data set does not carry)
EU member states · mainland view. Small places and overseas territories are included in their country figures. Select a country on the map to follow its survey history. Drag to pan and scroll to zoom.
Publisher’s EU reference · survey year 2025
Eurostat publishes this EU aggregate as its own observation. It is not an average calculated from the country values.
29.2 Gini points · EU
A view through time
Gini coefficient, year by year
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Survey year · 2025
Gini by EU country
Each figure links to its source record. Zero and no published figure are different answers.
| Country | Gini (points, 0–100) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AUT | 27.4 | Published |
| BEL | 23.4 | Published |
| BGR | 37.7 | Published |
| HRV | 28.5 | Published |
| CYP | 31.2 | Published |
| CZE | 24.0 | Published |
| DNK | 28.2 | Published |
| EST | 30.9 | Published |
| FIN | 27.1 | Published |
| FRA | 30.4 | Published |
| DEU | 30.1 | Published |
| GRC | 31.6 | Published |
| HUN | 29.5 | Published |
| IRL | 27.2 | Published |
| ITA | 31.0 | Published |
| LVA | 35.6 | Published |
| LTU | 35.5 | Published · Provisional |
| LUX | 30.5 | Published · Break in series |
| MLT | 29.2 | Published |
| NLD | 25.9 | Published |
| POL | 24.9 | Published |
| PRT | 30.9 | Published |
| ROU | 27.3 | Published |
| SVK | 23.0 | Published |
| SVN | 24.6 | Published |
| ESP | 30.8 | Published |
| SWE | 28.6 | Published |
Showing 27 of 27 EU country rows for survey year 2025.
Read the pattern
A score for how income is shared
Gini summarises income inequality on a scale from 0 to 100. A higher score means a more unequal distribution. It describes income after taxes and transfers, adjusted for household size.
Everyone has the same income.100
The theoretical extreme: one person receives all income.
It does not tell us how rich a country is, or how unequally wealth is held. Two countries can share a Gini score while having different income levels and different distributions.
The year shown is the survey year. Income usually refers to the previous calendar year. Historical methods and country-specific changes matter: we keep the publisher’s year labels and flag breaks instead of treating them as uninterrupted change.
Colours group similar published scores within the selected year. The colour boundaries can change between years; use the scores and country timeline to assess change.
Keep the source close
This view uses the committed Eurostat ilc_di12 series for the total population of the 27 current EU member states. The child-population series is separate and is not included. Missing figures stay missing, provisional values are labelled, and source-flagged breaks interrupt the timeline.
The EU reference is the publisher’s own aggregate, displayed separately. It is never a sum or a simple average of the country scores. This is EU coverage; other world regions are available in the World Bank explorer.