EU 29.49
· European ranking
1 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Turkey: Income Inequality (Gini Index)
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
43.90 Index
EU 29.49 · +14.4 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures inequality in the distribution of equivalised disposable income. A value of 0 represents complete equality and 100 represents maximum inequality.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Gini coefficient tessi190
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At a glance
Turkey performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Gini coefficient, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Turkey
In Turkey, Income inequality stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 43.9 index points versus 29.5 index points in 2025, a large gap of 14.4 index points.
Recent trend
In Turkey, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 43.4 in 2020 to 43.9 in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 44.8 in 2024 to 43.9 in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Turkey, the evidence for Income & Purchasing Power leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.