These charts compare overall income inequality in OECD countries, using the Gini coefficient, for which a higher score represents greater inequality.

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2019-20: The chart shows that income inequality in Australia in 2021 or latest available date is close to the average level for wealthy nations, based on OECD data.

2017-18: The chart shows that income inequality in Australia in 2018 – the latest date for which comparative data is available – was close to the average level for wealthy nations.

2015-16: It shows that income inequality in Australia in 2015 – the latest date for which comparative data is available – was higher than the OECD average. Australia sits between other English-speaking countries, above Canada but below the United States and the United Kingdom; and alongside some countries with lower income levels, like Greece and Portugal.

Most European countries had much lower income inequality than Australia.