Eurostat, income inequality in Italy at its lowest since 2014 but remains above the EU average

In Italy, inequality in the distribution of income decreased in 2025 to the lowest level since 2014 but remains significantly higher than the European average: according to what emerges from the Eurostat tables, the Gini coefficient which measures the distribution of disposable income (zero for perfect equality and 100 for complete inequality with a person having the entire income of the country) went from 32.2 in 2024 to 31.0. However, it remains significantly higher than the European average which dropped from 29.4 to 29.2.

In Italy for those under 18 the distribution of inequality is at 29.3, a sharp decline compared to 31.1 in 2024. In the EU the inequality index has decreased from 28.7 to 28.6.