List of countries by income equality
List of countries by income distribution; based on the Gini coefficient. The higher the Gini coefficient, the more unequal the distribution of income. The individual values in the list are thereby partly from different time periods and tests (conditional comparison ).
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Income disparities have increased, according to the OECD in the mid-1980s to the mid year of the first decade of the 21st century clearly. Especially from the mid- 1980s to mid-1990s, a significant increase was observed. Since then inequality has again, even if only slightly increased. In both periods, the inequality has increased faster in Germany than the OECD average. So have hardly changed the unequal distribution of income in France, Finland, Japan, Sweden, and the Netherlands between 1995 and 2006. In Spain and Ireland has grown even faster than for senior executives in the same period, wages for low wage earners. In Germany, however, the income gap has risen significantly stronger than in the majority of OECD countries: the highest paid ten percent of employees earned in 2005 on average 3.1 times as much as ten percent with the lowest wages. In 1995 it was only 2.8 times as much. Are available in the 20 OECD countries for which data have diverged only in the transition countries of Hungary, Poland and South Korea, and New Zealand wages even more.