Back to overview

Changes in income shares before and after the GFC in 2008

Income inequalityInequalityTrends

This graph shows the changes in the share of household income to each income group before and after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and then shows the changes over the entire period 1999-00 to 2017-18.

Before the GFC, the share of the highest 20% group rose by 1.6%, while those of the middle and lowest 20% fell by 0.4% and 0.3% respectively. After the GFC, the share of the highest 20% fell by 0.5% while those of the middle and lowest 20% each rose by 0.1%. Over the whole period, the income share of the higest 20% increased by 1.1%, while that of the middle 20% and lowest 20%, whose shares fell by 0.3% and 0.2% respectively.

Privacy Preference Center