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EurLIFE - Gini index

« Back to list of indicators Data for indicator: Gini index Domain: Income deprivation Definition: The Gini index is a measure of income inequality. Zero means perfect equality (everyone has the same income) and 100 means perfect inequality (one person has all the income, everyone else has nothing). Unit: Gini index [0-100] Data selected for this table: Countries: All ; Period: All ; Differentiator: none. Countries 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Countries AT 27 26 25 24 26 24 24   27 26 26 AT BE 29 28 27 27 29 30 28   28 26 28 BE BG       26 26 25 26 26 24 26   BG HR                 29     HR CY     29           27   29 CY CZ   24       25         26 CZ DK 22 22 20 21 22 21 22   25 24 24 DK EE   37 38 37 37 36 35 35 34 37 34 EE FI   22 22 22 24 24 24 26 26 25 26 FI FR 29 29 29 28 29 28 27 27 27 28 28 FR DE 29 27 25 25 25 25 25       28 DE EL 35 34 35 35 34 33 33   35 33 33 EL HU           23 23 24 27   28 HU IE 33 33 33 34 32 30 29   31 32 32 IE IT 33 32 31 31 30 29 29     33 33 IT LV   31 30 30 31   32       36 LV LT         31           36 LT LU 29 28 25 26 27 26 27   28 26 26 LU MT           30         28 MT NL 29 29 26 25 26 25 26 27 27   27 NL PL         28 30 30       36 PL PT 37 36 36 37 36 36 37     38 41 PT RO       28 29   30 30 30 31 31 RO SK                     26 SK SI         22 22   22 22     SI ES 34 34 35 34 33 32 33 31 31 31 32 ES SE     22 24 23 24 24 23   23 23 SE TR               46 45     TR UK 32 32 30 32 32 32 31 35 34     UK EU-15                 30 30 30 EU-15 EU-25                 29 30 31 EU-25 [Source of this data: Eurostat] Tip: You can copy the information from this table by selecting the data with the mouse, use 'Copy' function from the browser menu and paste it into your Word or Excel application. Chart can not be displayed because of too many selected countries!  Abbreviations Countries AT : Austria BE : Belgium BG : Bulgaria HR : Croatia CY : Cyprus CZ : Czech Republic DK : Denmark EE : Estonia FI : Finland FR : France        DE : Germany EL : Greece HU : Hungary IE : Ireland IT : Italy LV : Latvia LT : Lithuania LU : Luxembourg MT : Malta NL : Netherlands        PL : Poland PT : Portugal RO : Romania SK : Slovakia SI : Slovenia ES : Spain SE : Sweden TR : Turkey UK : United Kingdom EU-15 : 15 EU Member States (before May 2004) EU-25 : 25 EU Member States (after May 2004)