Disposable household and per capita income

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Household income is a measure of the combined incomes of all people sharing a particular household or place of residence. It includes every form of income, e.g., salaries and wages, retirement income, near cash government transfers like food stamps, and investment gains.

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Average household incomes need not map directly to measures of an individual's earnings such as per capita income as numbers of people sharing households and numbers of income earners per household can vary significantly between regions and over time.

Average household income can be used as an indicator for the monetary well-being of a country's citizens. Mean or median net household income, after taxes and mandatory contributions, are taken as indicators of standard of living, because they include only disposable income and acknowledge people sharing accommodation benefit from pooling at least some of their living costs.

Median income is the amount that divides the income distribution into two equal groups, half having income above that amount, and half having income below that amount. Mean income (average) is the amount obtained by dividing the total aggregate income of a group by the number of units in that group.

Disposable income per capita (OECD)

Mean

The list below represents a national accounts derived indicator for a country or territory's gross household disposable income per capita (including social transfers in kind). According to the OECD, 'household disposable income is income available to households such as wages and salaries, income from self-employment and unincorporated enterprises, income from pensions and other social benefits, and income from financial investments (less any payments of tax, social insurance contributions and interest on financial liabilities). 'Gross' means that depreciation costs are not subtracted.' [1] This indicator also takes account of social transfers in kind 'such as health or education provided for free or at reduced prices by governments and not-for-profit organisations.' [1] The data shown below is published by the OECD and is presented in purchasing power parity (PPP) in order to adjust for price differences between countries.

*Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred; if data is unavailable for 2022, figures for 2021, 2020 or 2019 are shown.


Median equivalised disposable income

The following table represents data from OECD's "median disposable income per person" metric; disposable income deducts from gross income the value of taxes on income and wealth paid and of contributions paid by households to public social security schemes. [2] The figures are equivalised by dividing income by the square root of household size. As OECD displays median disposable incomes in each country's respective currency, the values were converted here using PPP conversion factors for private consumption from the same source, accounting for each country's cost of living in the year that the disposable median income was recorded. [3] Data are in United States dollars at current prices and current purchasing power parity for private consumption for the reference year.

Household

Households and NPISHs net adjusted disposable income per capita (OECD)

Median household net income (Eurostat)

The following table shows data from Eurostat on household median equivalised net income adjusted for differences in purchasing power between countries. [5] According to Eurostat, 'the total disposable income of a household is calculated by adding together the personal income received by all household members plus income received at household level. Disposable household income includes: All income from work (employee wages and self-employment earnings), private income from investment and property, transfers between households, all social transfers received in cash including old-age pensions.' [6] This indicator does not include non-monetary income components such as the value of goods produced for own consumption, social transfers in kind and non-cash employee income (except company cars). Furthermore, to take account of differences in household sizes, disposable income per household is equivalised.

Median household net income by country(purchasing power standard)
Country20072011201520182021*2022**
Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 26,84726,60129,28527,55032,13233,214
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 20,50422,83326,54526,93426,35027,161
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 20,70024,25128,35326,29626,32727,093
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 17,53818,83319,38921,54324,55125,436
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 17,81020,42521,98123,20424,45025,119
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 16,31218,10619,95421,33622,69624,124
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 16,87519,18420,38421,64122,89923,244
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 17,32318,39520,34221,91723,33723,197
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 15,24117,93319,43020,04820,07820,941
Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 12,44214,02916,75317,93219,01220,698
Flag of France.svg  France 15,16618,17019,88520,26020,10020,575
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 15,91118,03120,15420,42920,67320,568
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 17,72216,62817,65619,46420,09920,207
Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 18,25219,16215,31317,50518,33419,719
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 12,92213,94015,10215,77117,57918,792
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 14,49715,77615,39516,71517,30418,472
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 12,68914,42414,46316,03016,30317,255
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 6,4907,49110,42313,37414,80517,075
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechia 8,8419,98911,65213,26413,81515,354
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 5,6098,3339,95711,54613,85914,953
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 5,7086,0688,25110,70213,74214,202
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 5,5855,9448,10810,01612,00312,899
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia -7,4238,2539,87011,38512,277
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 8,9199,62110,31710,80112,40412,267
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 11,32011,6278,8109,2589,92010,841
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 6,4907,1357,9388,6349,98310,229
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 2,7833,6414,3576,2788,69310,039
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 5,6068,97510,2209,7449,4259,826
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 3,2965,8246,8827,2089,3759,671
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia --4,7225,2266,9687,567
Flag of Montenegro.svg  Montenegro --5,6456,8316,3287,304
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 4,0544,7665,6686,4676,215-
Flag of Albania.svg  Albania ---4,0034,275-
Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 19,89318,02420,80423,637--
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 18,77415,77617,78418,423--
Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia --4,5565,496--
Flag of Kosovo.svg  Kosovo ---3,953--


* The most recent data for Iceland, the United Kingdom and Kosovo is from 2018. The most recent data for North Macedonia is from 2020. ** The most recent data for Turkey and Albania is from 2021.

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