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Austria: Income Inequality (Rich-Poor Gap)

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Austria

Latest value

· 2025

4.25 Ratio

EU 4.73 · -0.5 pp vs Europe

European ranking

20 / 30

Down 1 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

9.2M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the ratio between the total equivalised disposable income received by the highest-income 20% of the population and that received by the lowest-income 20%. A ratio of 5 means the top fifth receives five times as much income as the bottom fifth.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 ilc_di11

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· 2025 · 9 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1

    Vienna

    +29.41

    5.50

  2. 2

    Vorarlberg

    +17.65

    5.00

  3. 3

    Carinthia

    +1.18

    4.30

  4. 4

    Styria

    -8.24

    3.90

  5. 5

    Upper Austria

    -10.59

    3.80

  6. 5

    Salzburg

    -10.59

    3.80

  7. 7

    Lower Austria

    -12.94

    3.70

  8. 8

    Tyrol

    -17.65

    3.50

  9. 9

    Burgenland

    -22.35

    3.30

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Austria performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Income quintile share ratio S80/S20, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Austria

In Austria, S80/S20 ratio is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.25 versus 4.73 in 2025, with a gap of 0.48 in the ratio.

Recent trend

In Austria, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 4.11 in 2020 to 4.25 in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 4.34 in 2024 to 4.25 in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Austria

In Austria, S80/S20 ratio shows noticeable regional variation. Across 9 comparable regions, Vienna records the highest value (5.5) and Burgenland the lowest (3.3), a gap of 2.2 in the ratio.

Reading within the topic

In Austria, the evidence for Income & Purchasing Power leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.