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9 December 2021: New data are available for Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands (provisional), Norway, Portugal, Slovak Republic (provisional), Slovenia, Spain, United States, Bulgaria and Romania (income year 2019); Denmark, Hungary, Netherlands, Switzerland and United States (income year 2018); Netherlands and South Africa (income year 2017); and Brazil (income year 2016). Data have been revised for Latvia (income year 2019, provisional), the Netherlands (income years 2011-2016), Brazil (income years 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013) and South Africa (income year 2015).

Country
Age group
Year							2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019


Measure			Methodology	Definition	Unit
Mean disposable income (current prices)			New income definition since 2012	Current definition	Euro		..	24 315	25 489	26 457	26 777	27 303	27 206	28 851	28 660	28 758	30 517	30 710	31 517	32 441
Mean disposable income (current prices)				Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		22 742	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mean disposable income (current prices)	Total earnings (current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	20 975	22 023	22 102	21 568	22 323	22 998	24 055	23 962	24 385	25 642	25 962	26 452	27 585
	Total earnings (current prices)			Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		18 575	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Capital income (current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	960	846	931	1 036	1 206	944	1 128	1 139	1 154	1 214	1 201	1 282	1 507
	Capital income (current prices)			Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		622	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Income from self-employment and from goods produced for own consumption (current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	3 102	3 246	3 576	3 599	3 709	3 255	3 552	3 393	3 603	3 731	3 746	3 877	4 014
				Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		2 800	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Income from self-employment and from goods produced for own consumption (current prices)	Income from self-employment (current prices)		Current definition	Euro		..	3 077	3 212	3 552	3 599	3 709	3 255	3 552	3 393	3 603	3 731	3 746	3 877	4 014
		Income from self-employment (current prices)		Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		2 773	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		Income from own consumption (Current prices)		Current definition	Euro		..	24	34	24	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		Income from own consumption (Current prices)		Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		28	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Current transfers received (Current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	7 928	8 530	9 073	9 522	9 467	9 588	10 282	10 314	10 411	10 580	10 375	10 778	11 054
	Current transfers received (Current prices)			Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		8 319	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Current transfers received (Current prices)	Current transfers received from public social security (Current prices)		Current definition	Euro		..	7 689	8 308	8 841	9 252	9 197	9 349	10 010	10 066	10 118	10 280	10 066	10 491	10 803
				Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		8 089	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		Current transfers received from non-profit institutions and other private households (Current prices)		Current definition	Euro		..	239	222	232	269	270	238	272	248	294	301	308	287	250
				Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		230	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Current transfers paid (Current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	-8 648	-9 156	-9 226	-8 948	-9 401	-9 579	-10 167	-10 148	-10 796	-10 651	-10 574	-10 873	-11 718
	Current transfers paid (Current prices)			Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		-7 574	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Current transfers paid (Current prices)	Taxes and social security contributions paid directly by households (Current prices)		Current definition	Euro		..	-8 423	-8 935	-8 981	-8 712	-9 140	-9 321	-9 907	-9 863	-10 476	-10 305	-10 229	-10 531	-11 406
				Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		-7 430	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		Current transfers paid by households to non-profit institutions and other households (Current prices)		Current definition	Euro		..	-225	-221	-245	-236	-262	-257	-260	-284	-320	-346	-345	-342	-312
				Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		-143	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Median disposable income (current prices)				Current definition	Euro		..	21 661	22 945	23 471	23 843	24 391	24 750	25 568	25 932	26 055	27 516	27 677	28 265	29 343
Median disposable income (current prices)				Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		20 364	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
All age groups: mean disposable income (current prices)	Age group 0-17: mean disposable income (current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	21 668	23 122	23 390	24 007	24 077	23 607	24 810	24 972	25 364	26 874	26 872	27 381	28 488
	Age group 0-17: mean disposable income (current prices)			Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		20 252	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 18-25: mean disposable income (current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	26 078	26 490	27 340	27 742	28 361	28 940	30 128	28 950	28 522	30 736	32 689	33 506	34 362
	Age group 18-25: mean disposable income (current prices)			Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		23 468	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 26-40: mean disposable income (current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	23 620	25 156	25 579	25 710	25 234	25 218	27 361	27 144	26 742	28 525	28 670	29 332	30 411
	Age group 26-40: mean disposable income (current prices)			Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		22 282	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 41-50: mean disposable income (current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	27 713	28 617	29 668	29 607	30 419	30 298	31 627	31 788	30 838	33 648	33 500	33 613	34 964
	Age group 41-50: mean disposable income (current prices)			Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		24 912	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 51-65: mean disposable income (current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	26 484	28 165	29 624	29 880	31 204	31 046	32 626	32 141	33 228	34 478	34 549	36 065	36 550
	Age group 51-65: mean disposable income (current prices)			Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		24 970	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 66-75: mean disposable income (current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	21 815	22 098	24 368	24 826	25 871	25 356	27 894	28 017	28 306	29 578	29 350	30 053	31 367
	Age group 66-75: mean disposable income (current prices)			Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		21 205	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 76+: mean disposable income (current prices)			Current definition	Euro		..	20 266	21 143	21 763	22 675	23 113	23 039	24 626	24 741	25 991	27 399	27 790	29 041	29 441
	Age group 76+: mean disposable income (current prices)			Previous definition - without overlap year	Euro		20 762	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Gini (disposable income, post taxes and transfers)				Current definition	0-1 scale		..	0.284	0.28	0.289	0.28	0.281	0.276	0.28	0.274	0.275	0.284	0.275	0.28	0.274
Gini (disposable income, post taxes and transfers)				Previous definition - without overlap year	0-1 scale		0.267	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Gini (market income, before taxes and transfers)				Current definition	0-1 scale		..	0.485	0.489	0.503	0.496	0.494	0.493	0.495	0.492	0.494	0.5	0.485	0.494	0.486
Gini (market income, before taxes and transfers)				Previous definition - without overlap year	0-1 scale		0.48	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Gini (gross income, before taxes)				Current definition	0-1 scale		..	0.329	0.327	0.339	0.325	0.329	0.323	0.323	0.319	0.324	0.333	0.322	0.324	0.321
Gini (gross income, before taxes)				Previous definition - without overlap year	0-1 scale		0.307	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Palma ratio				Current definition	Ratio		..	1	0.99	1.03	0.98	0.99	0.96	0.99	0.97	0.96	1	0.96	0.98	0.95
Palma ratio				Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.93	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
P90/P10 disposable income decile ratio				Current definition	Interdecile ratio P90/P10		..	3.6	3.4	3.6	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.4	3.4	3.3	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.6
P90/P10 disposable income decile ratio				Previous definition - without overlap year	Interdecile ratio P90/P10		3.2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
P90/P50 disposable income decile ratio				Current definition	Interdecile ratio P90/P50		..	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8
P90/P50 disposable income decile ratio				Previous definition - without overlap year	Interdecile ratio P90/P50		1.8	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
P50/P10 disposable income decile ratio				Current definition	Interdecile ratio P50/P10		..	2	1.9	2	1.9	1.9	2	1.9	1.9	1.9	2	1.9	2	2
P50/P10 disposable income decile ratio				Previous definition - without overlap year	Interdecile ratio P50/P10		1.8	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
S80/S20 disposable income quintile share				Current definition	Ratio		..	4.4	4.3	4.5	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.2	4.1	4.2	4.5	4.2	4.3	4.2
S80/S20 disposable income quintile share				Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		3.9	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Poverty rate before taxes and transfers, Poverty line 50%				Current definition	Ratio		..	0.298	0.304	0.323	0.325	0.318	0.32	0.316	0.321	0.312	0.322	0.312	0.304	0.308
Poverty rate before taxes and transfers, Poverty line 50%				Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.304	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Poverty rate after taxes and transfers, Poverty line 50%				Current definition	Ratio		..	0.097	0.093	0.096	0.089	0.091	0.096	0.09	0.091	0.087	0.098	0.094	0.094	0.1
Poverty rate after taxes and transfers, Poverty line 50%				Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.078	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mean Poverty gap after taxes and transfers, Poverty line 50%				Current definition	Ratio		..	0.28	0.302	0.328	0.297	0.327	0.335	0.281	0.278	0.335	0.353	0.29	0.322	0.294
				Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.252	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
All age groups: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers	Age group 0-17: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers			Current definition	Ratio		..	0.097	0.098	0.11	0.1	0.092	0.104	0.104	0.108	0.096	0.115	0.115	0.096	0.13
	Age group 0-17: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers			Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.094	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 18-25: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Current definition	Ratio		..	0.1	0.113	0.117	0.104	0.121	0.101	0.103	0.114	0.111	0.13	0.099	0.1	0.088
	Age group 18-25: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.089	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 26-40: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Current definition	Ratio		..	0.096	0.095	0.104	0.092	0.1	0.114	0.097	0.093	0.1	0.125	0.104	0.106	0.118
	Age group 26-40: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.08	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 41-50: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Current definition	Ratio		..	0.053	0.054	0.06	0.055	0.061	0.053	0.063	0.072	0.068	0.063	0.066	0.087	0.076
	Age group 41-50: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.054	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 51-65: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Current definition	Ratio		..	0.104	0.081	0.074	0.075	0.079	0.092	0.079	0.079	0.076	0.078	0.084	0.078	0.077
	Age group 51-65: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.065	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 66-75: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Current definition	Ratio		..	0.123	0.118	0.115	0.114	0.107	0.113	0.099	0.084	0.07	0.09	0.093	0.106	0.095
	Age group 66-75: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.078	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Age group 76+: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Current definition	Ratio		..	0.148	0.142	0.118	0.112	0.11	0.113	0.098	0.099	0.088	0.087	0.102	0.092	0.109
	Age group 76+: Poverty rate after taxes and transfers		Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.11	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Poverty rate before taxes and transfers, Poverty line 60%			Current definition	Ratio		..	0.34	0.344	0.361	0.363	0.363	0.354	0.352	0.359	0.356	0.358	0.35	0.347	0.346
Poverty rate before taxes and transfers, Poverty line 60%			Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.346	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Poverty rate after taxes and transfers, Poverty line 60%			Current definition	Ratio		..	0.159	0.152	0.154	0.152	0.155	0.152	0.142	0.147	0.146	0.151	0.152	0.147	0.151
Poverty rate after taxes and transfers, Poverty line 60%			Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.134	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mean Poverty gap after taxes and transfers, Poverty line 60%			Current definition	Ratio		..	0.276	0.286	0.304	0.276	0.291	0.311	0.283	0.281	0.298	0.329	0.284	0.306	0.299
			Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.253	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Total number of individuals			Current definition	Persons		..	8 241 523	8 262 101	8 283 237	8 315 881	8 344 294	8 368 625	8 403 374	8 476 451	8 590 169	8 640 974	8 652 285	8 706 396	8 757 572
Total number of individuals			Previous definition - without overlap year	Persons		8 214 446	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Age group 0-17: share			Current definition	Ratio		..	0.194	0.195	0.183	0.184	0.186	0.184	0.18	0.177	0.181	0.18	0.181	0.179	0.18
Age group 0-17: share			Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.195	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Age group 18-25: share			Current definition	Ratio		..	0.104	0.105	0.108	0.107	0.105	0.104	0.108	0.111	0.104	0.103	0.087	0.088	0.084
Age group 18-25: share			Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.106	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Age group 26-40: share			Current definition	Ratio		..	0.199	0.19	0.191	0.184	0.181	0.181	0.177	0.176	0.181	0.18	0.202	0.204	0.206
Age group 26-40: share			Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.199	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Age group 41-50: share			Current definition	Ratio		..	0.168	0.17	0.169	0.175	0.173	0.167	0.164	0.159	0.157	0.159	0.149	0.143	0.137
Age group 41-50: share			Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.167	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Age group 51-65: share			Current definition	Ratio		..	0.178	0.181	0.188	0.186	0.191	0.202	0.205	0.207	0.206	0.207	0.221	0.224	0.229
Age group 51-65: share			Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.181	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Age group 66-75: share			Current definition	Ratio		..	0.091	0.094	0.097	0.094	0.097	0.098	0.102	0.103	0.098	0.093	0.087	0.092	0.091
Age group 66-75: share			Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.088	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Age group 76+: share			Current definition	Ratio		..	0.065	0.065	0.065	0.07	0.067	0.065	0.066	0.068	0.072	0.077	0.072	0.071	0.073
Age group 76+: share			Previous definition - without overlap year	Ratio		0.066	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Total number of households			Current definition	Number		..	3 566 489	3 598 258	3 624 300	3 650 398	3 674 279	3 701 302	3 761 790	3 809 693	3 862 098	3 886 560	3 911 448	3 943 564	3 990 132
Total number of households			Previous definition - without overlap year	Number		3 537 022	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
REFERENCE SERIES	Consumer Price Index (base 2010=100)		Current definition	Index		..	94.6792	97.724	98.2188	100	103.2866	105.854	107.9712	109.705	110.6886	111.6755	113.9997	116.2779	118.058
	Consumer Price Index (base 2010=100)		Previous definition - without overlap year	Index		92.6696	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Consumer Price Index (base 2015=100)		Current definition	Index		..	85.53651	88.28732	88.73433	90.34355	93.31277	95.63223	97.54502	99.1114	100	100.8916	102.9914	105.0496	106.6578
	Consumer Price Index (base 2015=100)		Previous definition - without overlap year	Index		83.72098	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Purchasing Power Parities for private consumption		Current definition	National currency per US dollar		..	0.878996	0.872035	0.862725	0.856177	0.850842	0.855789	0.845407	0.845595	0.850461	0.832053	0.837481	0.829647	0.83705
	Purchasing Power Parities for private consumption		Previous definition - without overlap year	National currency per US dollar		0.878203	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

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