In 2025, the EU’s Gini coefficient was 29.2, down slightly from 29.4 in 2024. The Gini coefficient measures how income is distributed within a country compared with a situation of a perfectly equal distribution. A value of 0 represents perfect equality, where everyone has the same income, while a value of 100 indicates complete inequality, where one person receives all the income.
Across EU countries in 2025, the Gini coefficient ranged from 23.0 in Slovakia to 37.7 in Bulgaria. After Slovakia, the countries with the most equal income distribution were Belgium (23.4), Czechia (24.0), Slovenia (24.6) and Poland (24.9).
At the other end of the distribution, Bulgaria was followed by Latvia (35.6) and Lithuania (35.5). (....)