Gini: Higher Gini coefficients signify greater inequality in wealth distribution, with 0 being complete equality, whereas a value near 100% can arise in a situation where everybody has zero wealth except a very small minority.
* indicates "Wealth in COUNTRY or AREA"or"Economy of COUNTRY or AREA" links.
| Country, region, or subnational area | Median | Mean | Gini % |
Adults |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Luxembourg *
|
259,899 | 477,306 | 67.0 | 498,000 |
 Australia *
|
238,072 | 483,755 | 65.6 | 19,159,000 |
 Iceland *
|
231,462 | 337,787 | 50.9 | 255,000 |
 Belgium *
|
230,548 | 351,327 | 60.3 | 8,993,000 |
 Hong Kong *
|
173,768 | 503,335 | 74.6 | 6,292,000 |
 New Zealand *
|
171,624 | 348,198 | 69.9 | 3,600,000 |
 Denmark *
|
165,622 | 376,069 | 73.6 | 4,557,000 |
 Switzerland *
|
146,733 | 673,962 | 78.1 | 6,958,000 |
 Netherlands *
|
136,105 | 377,092 | 75.3 | 13,462,000 |
 France *
|
133,559 | 299,355 | 70.0 | 49,967,000 |
 United Kingdom *
|
131,522 | 290,754 | 71.7 | 52,568,000 |
 Canada *
|
125,688 | 332,323 | 71.9 | 29,934,000 |
 Japan *
|
122,980 | 256,596 | 64.4 | 104,953,000 |
 Italy *
|
118,885 | 239,244 | 66.5 | 49,746,000 |
 Norway *
|
117,798 | 275,880 | 78.5 | 4,184,000 |
 Spain *
|
105,831 | 227,122 | 69.2 | 37,798,000 |
 Ireland *
|
99,028 | 266,153 | 80.0 | 3,619,000 |
 Taiwan *
|
93,044 | 238,862 | 70.8 | 19,633,000 |
 Austria *
|
91,833 | 290,348 | 73.5 | 7,271,000 |
 Sweden *
|
89,846 | 336,166 | 87.2 | 7,794,000 |
 South Korea *
|
89,671 | 211,369 | 67.6 | 42,490,000 |
 Singapore *
|
86,717 | 332,995 | 78.3 | 4,887,000 |
 Malta *
|
84,390 | 148,934 | 61.7 | 358,000 |
 Qatar *
|
83,680 | 146,730 | 58.1 | 2,396,000 |
 Israel *
|
80,315 | 228,268 | 73.4 | 5,626,000 |
 United States *
|
79,274 | 505,421 | 85.0 | 249,969,000 |
 Finland *
|
73,775 | 167,711 | 74.0 | 4,373,000 |
 Slovenia *
|
67,961 | 120,173 | 67.1 | 1,672,000 |
 Germany *
|
65,374 | 268,681 | 77.9 | 68,015,000 |
 Portugal *
|
61,306 | 142,537 | 70.5 | 8,339,000 |
 Greece *
|
57,595 | 104,603 | 65.7 | 8,462,000 |
 Slovakia *
|
45,853 | 68,059 | 50.3 | 4,346,000 |
 Estonia *
|
38,901 | 77,817 | 73.8 | 1,044,000 |
 Cyprus *
|
35,300 | 142,304 | 80.7 | 679,000 |
 Croatia *
|
34,945 | 69,140 | 68.5 | 3,303,000 |
 Latvia *
|
33,884 | 70,454 | 80.9 | 1,477,000 |
 Montenegro *
|
30,739 | 60,310 | 68.4 | 476,000 |
 Lithuania *
|
29,679 | 63,500 | 71.0 | 2,166,000 |
 Kuwait *
|
28,698 | 129,890 | 86.5 | 3,146,000 |
 Mauritius *
|
27,456 | 63,372 | 72.1 | 968,000 |
 Seychelles *
|
24,651 | 63,427 | 75.9 | 69,000 |
 Hungary *
|
24,126 | 53,664 | 66.5 | 7,769,000 |
 China *
|
24,067 | 67,771 | 70.4 | 1,104,956,000 |
 Czech Republic *
|
23,794 | 78,103 | 77.7 | 8,528,000 |
 French Caribbean
|
23,740 | 68,443 | 73.8 | 631,000 |
 Romania *
|
23,675 | 50,009 | 70.1 | 15,208,000 |
 Poland *
|
23,550 | 67,477 | 70.7 | 30,315,000 |
 Uruguay *
|
22,088 | 60,914 | 77.2 | 2,530,000 |
 United Arab Emirates *
|
21,613 | 115,476 | 88.8 | 8,053,000 |
 Barbados *
|
21,071 | 63,261 | 80.4 | 221,000 |
 Lebanon *
|
18,159 | 55,007 | 79.7 | 4,548,000 |
 Chile *
|
17,747 | 53,591 | 79.7 | 14,259,000 |
 Bulgaria *
|
17,403 | 36,443 | 70.1 | 5,586,000 |
| Dutch Caribbean
|
16,810 | 40,909 | 69.1 | 258,000 |
 Trinidad and Tobago *
|
15,649 | 44,182 | 78.0 | 1,032,000 |
 Saudi Arabia *
|
15,495 | 68,697 | 86.7 | 24,186,000 |
 Albania *
|
15,363 | 30,524 | 68.2 | 2,187,000 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina *
|
15,283 | 30,597 | 68.6 | 2,637,000 |
 Serbia *
|
14,954 | 31,705 | 70.6 | 5,480,000 |
 British West Indies
|
14,684 | 45,109 | 80.8 | 567,000 |
 Costa Rica *
|
14,662 | 44,337 | 79.9 | 3,696,000 |
 Bahrain *
|
14,520 | 87,559 | 88.9 | 1,318,000 |
| Polynesia
|
14,076 | 37,998 | 77.9 | 423,000 |
 Mexico *
|
13,752 | 42,689 | 80.5 | 85,136,000 |
 Panama *
|
13,147 | 43,979 | 82.5 | 2,843,000 |
| Melanesia
|
12,183 | 31,106 | 75.8 | 711,000 |
 Belarus *
|
12,168 | 23,278 | 66.7 | 7,367,000 |
 Kazakhstan *
|
12,029 | 33,463 | 76.4 | 12,226,000 |
 El Salvador *
|
11,372 | 34,003 | 79.1 | 4,201,000 |
 Jordan *
|
10,842 | 28,316 | 75.9 | 5,866,000 |
 Oman *
|
9,886 | 39,434 | 86.7 | 3,765,000 |
 Armenia *
|
9,411 | 22,573 | 73.0 | 2,176,000 |
 Turkmenistan *
|
9,030 | 20,328 | 70.6 | 3,722,000 |
 Sri Lanka *
|
8,802 | 23,832 | 76.8 | 14,732,000 |
 Malaysia *
|
8,583 | 29,287 | 82.9 | 22,315,000 |
 Maldives *
|
8,519 | 25,511 | 79.8 | 409,000 |
 Thailand *
|
8,036 | 25,292 | 77.1 | 54,054,000 |
 Turkey *
|
8,001 | 27,466 | 81.8 | 57,768,000 |
 Iran *
|
7,621 | 22,249 | 78.6 | 57,987,000 |
 Moldova *
|
7,577 | 15,491 | 69.4 | 3,188,000 |
 Bahamas *
|
7,507 | 56,737 | 91.4 | 278,000 |
 Venezuela *
|
7,341 | 21,040 | 78.1 | 18,359,000 |
 Libya *
|
6,512 | 17,198 | 76.0 | 4,440,000 |
 Iraq *
|
6,378 | 14,506 | 71.0 | 21,247,000 |
 Egypt *
|
6,329 | 19,468 | 79.2 | 59,547,000 |
 Tunisia *
|
6,177 | 17,550 | 77.8 | 8,207,000 |
 Jamaica *
|
5,976 | 19,893 | 82.0 | 2,041,000 |
 Fiji *
|
5,764 | 15,708 | 77.4 | 564,000 |
 Peru *
|
5,445 | 17,017 | 80.1 | 22,530,000 |
 Ecuador *
|
5,444 | 17,151 | 80.8 | 11,361,000 |
 Russia *
|
5,431 | 27,162 | 87.8 | 111,845,000 |
 Brunei *
|
5,122 | 39,098 | 91.6 | 309,000 |
 Azerbaijan *
|
5,022 | 11,926 | 72.7 | 7,155,000 |
 Micronesia *
|
4,876 | 13,193 | 77.9 | 341,000 |
 Colombia *
|
4,854 | 16,928 | 82.7 | 35,612,000 |
 Indonesia *
|
4,693 | 17,693 | 77.7 | 180,782,000 |
 Gabon *
|
4,685 | 13,696 | 79.3 | 1,216,000 |
 Guyana *
|
4,637 | 12,280 | 76.5 | 497,000 |
 Equatorial Guinea *
|
4,561 | 18,246 | 86.3 | 776,000 |
 Vietnam *
|
4,559 | 14,075 | 80.2 | 68,565,000 |
 South Africa *
|
4,523 | 20,308 | 88.0 | 37,590,000 |
 Georgia *
|
4,223 | 14,162 | 81.3 | 2,959,000 |
 Morocco *
|
3,874 | 13,459 | 81.9 | 24,654,000 |
 Bolivia *
|
3,804 | 12,286 | 81.0 | 7,088,000 |
 Nicaragua *
|
3,694 | 12,239 | 81.0 | 4,107,000 |
 Kenya *
|
3,683 | 12,313 | 82.2 | 27,473,000 |
 Botswana *
|
3,680 | 15,598 | 87.3 | 1,358,000 |
 Namibia *
|
3,677 | 15,294 | 86.6 | 1,375,000 |
 Paraguay *
|
3,644 | 11,962 | 81.6 | 4,454,000 |
 Brazil *
|
3,469 | 18,272 | 89.0 | 153,307,000 |
 India *
|
3,194 | 14,252 | 82.3 | 900,443,000 |
 Philippines *
|
3,155 | 15,290 | 86.9 | 66,960,000 |
 Bangladesh *
|
3,062 | 7,837 | 75.2 | 106,060,000 |
 Belize *
|
3,015 | 10,364 | 83.4 | 245,000 |
 East Timor *
|
2,838 | 5,185 | 62.6 | 689,000 |
 Mongolia *
|
2,546 | 6,324 | 74.4 | 2,053,000 |
 Ukraine *
|
2,529 | 13,104 | 84.4 | 34,639,000 |
 Myanmar *
|
2,458 | 5,025 | 67.0 | 35,734,000 |
 Zimbabwe *
|
2,356 | 7,131 | 79.8 | 7,086,000 |
 Algeria *
|
2,302 | 8,871 | 84.8 | 27,620,000 |
 Kyrgyzstan *
|
2,238 | 5,816 | 75.7 | 3,927,000 |
 Ghana *
|
2,198 | 6,132 | 77.5 | 16,617,000 |
 Pakistan *
|
2,187 | 5,258 | 73.2 | 123,522,000 |
 Argentina *
|
2,157 | 7,224 | 81.2 | 30,799,000 |
 Cambodia *
|
2,031 | 5,895 | 78.7 | 10,180,000 |
 Tajikistan *
|
1,844 | 4,390 | 73.1 | 5,227,000 |
 Papua New Guinea *
|
1,790 | 6,710 | 84.3 | 4,941,000 |
 São Tomé and Príncipe *
|
1,702 | 4,029 | 73.1 | 104,000 |
 Laos *
|
1,610 | 7,379 | 87.9 | 4,288,000 |
 Senegal *
|
1,570 | 4,702 | 79.7 | 7,975,000 |
 Ethiopia *
|
1,527 | 3,540 | 71.1 | 57,104,000 |
 Nigeria *
|
1,474 | 6,451 | 85.8 | 95,931,000 |
 Comoros *
|
1,466 | 5,397 | 84.8 | 447,000 |
 Liberia *
|
1,464 | 4,453 | 80.1 | 2,502,000 |
 Nepal *
|
1,437 | 4,056 | 78.1 | 17,887,000 |
 Tanzania *
|
1,433 | 3,647 | 74.5 | 27,744,000 |
 Suriname *
|
1,349 | 5,644 | 87.1 | 382,000 |
 Rwanda *
|
1,266 | 4,188 | 81.9 | 6,581,000 |
 Yemen *
|
1,223 | 5,581 | 88.0 | 15,281,000 |
 Angola *
|
1,131 | 3,529 | 80.6 | 14,339,000 |
 Eritrea *
|
1,086 | 2,846 | 75.7 | 1,728,000 |
 Djibouti *
|
1,077 | 3,112 | 78.8 | 618,000 |
 Mauritania *
|
1,037 | 2,788 | 76.3 | 2,370,000 |
 Cameroon *
|
941 | 3,042 | 81.6 | 12,716,000 |
 Guinea *
|
938 | 2,942 | 80.8 | 6,078,000 |
 Benin *
|
890 | 2,558 | 78.2 | 5,839,000 |
 Mali *
|
869 | 2,424 | 77.6 | 8,625,000 |
 Syria *
|
807 | 2,197 | 77.2 | 10,811,000 |
 Afghanistan *
|
734 | 1,744 | 72.8 | 18,356,000 |
 Zambia *
|
692 | 3,068 | 87.7 | 8,331,000 |
 Guinea-Bissau *
|
670 | 1,828 | 77.6 | 949,000 |
 Madagascar *
|
666 | 1,962 | 79.3 | 13,812,000 |
 Gambia *
|
658 | 2,500 | 84.9 | 1,115,000 |
 Uganda *
|
646 | 1,994 | 80.4 | 19,830,000 |
 Burkina Faso *
|
622 | 1,681 | 76.8 | 9,480,000 |
 Malawi *
|
606 | 2,045 | 82.4 | 8,887,000 |
 Congo *
|
582 | 2,180 | 84.7 | 2,707,000 |
 Niger *
|
492 | 1,287 | 75.6 | 9,739,000 |
 Togo *
|
468 | 1,484 | 81.2 | 4,084,000 |
 Sudan *
|
383 | 1,014 | 75.9 | 21,941,000 |
 Sierra Leone *
|
370 | 995 | 76.7 | 3,937,000 |
 DR Congo *
|
356 | 1,240 | 83.2 | 39,740,000 |
 Chad *
|
355 | 1,117 | 80.6 | 7,059,000 |
 Mozambique *
|
345 | 1,003 | 79.1 | 14,186,000 |
 Burundi *
|
281 | 728 | 75.1 | 5,381,000 |
 Lesotho *
|
264 | 1,226 | 88.6 | 1,243,000 |
 Central African Republic *
|
212 | 840 | 85.9 | 2,161,000 |
 Haiti *
|
193 | 767 | 85.2 | 6,621,000 |
