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Ledger series

Income of the richest fifth compared with the poorest fifth in the EU countries

How many times greater is the total income of the fifth of the population with the highest income than that of the fifth with the lowest?

Period 2025 · ratio

identifier racio-s80-s20-2025-paises

Published by Eurostat, in «Income quintile share ratio (S80/S20) by sex» (tessi180, freq=A, age=TOTAL, sex=T, unit=RAT).

The countries and the Union

CountryValueSource mark
Belgium3,25
Bulgaria6,94
Czechia3,34
Denmark4,12
Germany4,68
Estonia5,07
Ireland3,89
Greece5,17
Spain5,24
France4,74
Croatia4,78
Italy5,13
Cyprus4,60
Latvia6,68
Lithuania6,54p
Luxembourg4,60b
Hungary4,68
Malta4,49
Netherlands3,76
Austria4,25
Poland3,63
Portugal4,86
Romania4,37
Slovenia3,55
Slovakia3,27
Finland3,93
Sweden4,58
European Union4,62

What each mark means

p
provisional data; in Eurostat’s response, «provisional»
b
break in time series; in Eurostat’s response, «break in time series»

The definition is the one in Eurostat’s response, as the response writes it.

Proof

The request https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/tessi180?format=JSON&lang=EN&geo=BE&geo=BG&geo=CZ&geo=DK&geo=DE&geo=EE&geo=IE&geo=EL&geo=ES&geo=FR&geo=HR&geo=IT&geo=CY&geo=LV&geo=LT&geo=LU&geo=HU&geo=MT&geo=NL&geo=AT&geo=PL&geo=PT&geo=RO&geo=SI&geo=SK&geo=FI&geo=SE&geo=EU27_2020&sex=T

The series page at the source https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tessi180/default/table?lang=en

What the response says Income quintile share ratio (S80/S20) by sex — Ratio — 2025

Read on 29.09.2026

Updated by the source on 17.09.2026

The country names

The country names are those of the countries authority table of the Publications Office of the European Union, read on 29.09.2026. The table