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Income Inequality (Rich-Poor Gap) indicator overview

Explore editorial context for the indicator Income Inequality (Rich-Poor Gap).

Technical indicatorIncome quintile share ratio S80/S20 Eurostat datasetsilc_di11, ilc_di11_r Reference year2025 Latest source release2026-07-08

Indicator overview

Income Inequality (Rich-Poor Gap)

Eurostat indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Topic: Income

Coverage

30

Countries in the European snapshot

Data year

2025

Reference year for the current runtime snapshot

European benchmark

4.7Ratio

30

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NUTS0 snapshot with value-based colouring and European indicator context.

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Year2025 Coverage30
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Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechia Germany Denmark Estonia Spain Finland France Greece Croatia Hungary Ireland Italy Lithuania Luxembourg Latvia Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Sweden Slovenia Slovakia Turkey

European distribution

Horizontal country distribution over the full indicator scale.

Year2025

30 countries

Medium-term movement

Compact summary of European change between anchor and analysis years.

Open trend
Period2020 -> 2025 Coverage30 countries

Largest improvement

Romania

6.6 Ratio -> 4.4 Ratio

-2.2 Ratio

Largest deterioration

Sweden

4.1 Ratio -> 4.6 Ratio

+0.5 Ratio