Disposable household and per capita income

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.

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.

Household disposable income per capita (including social transfers in kind) Rank Country/Territory 2022* (PPP)[1] 1  United States 62,300 (2021) 2  Luxembourg 59,700 3   Switzerland 52,000 4  Germany 51,600 5  Austria 50,200 6  Netherlands 48,800 7  Norway 47,700 (2021) 8  Belgium 47,400 9  Australia 46,800 (2021) 10  France 46,400 11  Sweden 43,900 12  Finland 43,600 13  Canada 43,600 14  Denmark 42,800  European Union 41,500 15  United Kingdom 40,800 16  Italy 40,400 17  Ireland 38,300 18  Slovenia 36,600 19  Lithuania 36,300 20  Czechia 35,600 21  Spain 34,500 22  Portugal 34,500 23  Japan 33,900 (2021) 24  South Korea 32,700 25  Poland 32,200 26  New Zealand 31,900 (2019) 27  Hungary 29,800 28  Slovakia 29,500 29  Estonia 29,200 30  Latvia 28,600 31  Greece 28,000 32  Chile 23,100 (2021) 33  Russia 20,600 (2019) 34  Mexico 20,500 35  Costa Rica 17,900 (2021)

*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.

	Country	Median income (US$, PPP)	Year
1	Luxembourg	47,568	2020
2	United States	46,625	2021
3	Norway	41,621	2021
4	Switzerland	39,264	2019
5	Canada	38,582	2020
6	Austria	36,992	2020
7	Netherlands	35,891	2021
8	Australia	35,518	2020
9	Belgium	35,153	2020
10	Iceland	34,316	2017
11	Denmark	33,569	2019
12	Sweden	33,472	2021
13	Germany	33,288	2019
14	New Zealand	31,752	2020
15	Ireland	30,818	2020
16	Finland	30,727	2021
17	South Korea	30,526	2020
18	France	29,131	2019
19	Slovenia	27,519	2020
20	Italy	26,713	2020
21	United Kingdom	25,383	2020
22	Spain	25,288	2020
23	Estonia	23,660	2020
24	Poland	21,904	2020
25	Japan	21,694	2018
26	Czech Republic	21,063	2020
27	Lithuania	21,034	2020
28	Israel	20,833	2020
29	Portugal	19,347	2020
30	Latvia	18,665	2020
31	Croatia	18,607	2020
32	Hungary	17,584	2020
33	Slovak Republic	16,409	2020
34	Russia	16,163	2017
35	Romania	15,897	2020
36	Greece	15,501	2020
37	Bulgaria	14,661	2020
38	Turkey	11,242	2019
39	Chile	10,058	2017
40	Costa Rica	8,915	2021
41	Brazil	6,942	2016
42	Mexico	5,930	2020
43	South Africa	5,489	2017
44	China	4,484	2011
45	India	2,473	2011

Household

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

Households and NPISHs net adjusted disposable income per capita^[4]

US dollars per person, PPP converted, 2015

Y/y change:   Increase   Decrease   Not applicable

Country	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	Δ
Australia	32,475	32,205	33,505	34,050	33,617	34,011	34,468	34,472	34,746	34,994	35,452	36,485	37,911	38,722	6,247
Austria	33,995	33,903	33,591	33,369	33,682	33,017	33,032	32,689	33,114	33,412	33,670	34,091	32,955	34,062	67
Belgium	31,216	31,280	30,821	30,517	30,586	30,552	30,619	30,684	31,012	31,410	31,618	32,231	32,276[a]	32,778[a]	1,562
Canada[b]	28,246	28,499	29,146	29,316	29,640	29,973	30,010	30,663	30,313	31,040	31,186	31,476	33,058	33,540	5,294
Costa Rica	—	—	—	—	12,630	12,798	13,048	13,482	14,303	15,203	15,453	15,604	—	—	2,974
Czechia	20,172	20,499	20,607	20,401	20,227	20,203	20,683	21,286	21,863	22,785	23,620	24,390	24,472	25,524	5,352
Denmark	26,346	26,914	27,695	27,824	27,699	27,901	28,173	28,983	29,711	30,053	30,423	30,888	30,590	30,769	4,423
Estonia	17,225	15,917	15,331	15,869	15,881	16,739	17,478	18,521	19,285	19,964	21,085	21,767	22,339	23,282	6,057
Finland	28,595	28,690	29,251	29,332	29,185	29,058	28,808	29,038	29,500	29,722	30,218	30,814	30,858	31,253	2,658
France	29,681	30,066	30,449	30,405	30,279	29,946	30,207	30,383	30,783	31,157	31,377	31,860	31,351[a]	32,324[a]	2,643
Germany	30,991	31,000	31,336	31,849	32,064	32,076	32,483	32,985	33,746	34,170	34,796	35,044[a]	35,390[a]	35,483[a]	4,492
Greece	25,433	25,526	23,338	20,569	18,244	17,353	17,722	18,135	18,238	18,177	18,423	19,560[a]	19,130[a]	20,535[a]	-4,898
Hungary	16,271	15,704	15,616	16,196	15,749	16,065	16,548	17,162	17,862	18,892	20,234	21,119	20,841	22,204[a]	5,933
Ireland	26,757	26,403	25,870	24,246	24,268	23,749	23,702	24,483	25,234	26,240	26,757	27,692	29,386	30,141	3,384
Italy	28,480	27,819	27,312	27,041	25,619	25,416	25,541	25,834	26,167	26,462	26,747	26,830	26,360	27,150	-1,330
Japan	27,234	27,432	27,832	27,969	28,368	28,557	28,198	28,544	28,991	29,238	29,468	29,915	31,100	30,513	3,279
Korea	18,801	19,012	19,711	20,001	20,390	21,120	21,735	22,855	23,155	23,510	24,201	24,898	25,596	—	6,795
Latvia	15,566	13,814	13,419	12,979	13,588	14,090	14,911	15,966	16,810	17,391	18,266	18,899	19,353	21,274	5,708
Lithuania	19,052	17,291	17,545	18,009	18,466	19,235	19,598	20,475	21,910	22,365	23,314	24,712	26,113	26,038	6,986
Luxembourg	39,714	40,685	40,714	40,556	40,821	41,770	41,778	41,235	40,818	41,714	42,261	43,029	44,726	45,162[a]	5,448
Mexico	13,930	13,903	14,088	14,696	14,487	14,405	14,722	15,257	15,596	15,543	15,527	15,873	14,789[a]	15,332[a]	1,402
Netherlands	29,908	30,372	30,335	30,409	30,160	29,792	30,096	30,385	30,819	30,954	31,535	32,150	32,515[a]	33,341[a]	3,433
New Zealand	22,210	22,708	23,028	23,701	23,911	24,206	24,121	24,742	25,449	26,045	26,887	27,527	—	—	5,317
Norway	29,932	30,777	31,213	31,861	32,634	33,276	33,602	34,657	34,171	34,508	34,535	34,893	34,629	36,158	6,226
Poland	16,073	16,849	17,560	17,597	17,789	17,979	18,950	19,514	20,591	21,319	22,187	23,270	24,244	23,841	7,768
Portugal	21,959	22,522	22,392	21,479	20,725	20,526	20,399	21,025	21,582	21,863	22,405	23,237	22,639	23,136[a]	1,177
Slovak Republic	18,129	18,381	18,775	18,284	18,172	18,084	18,445	19,400	19,966	20,545	21,848	22,450	22,462	22,626	4,497
Slovenia	21,352	21,045	20,924	20,966	20,111	19,649	19,843	20,286	21,179	21,800	22,672	23,507	24,376	25,419	4,067
Spain	25,481	25,559	25,138	24,695	23,047	22,836	22,852	23,769	24,335	24,689	24,955	25,674	25,248[a]	25,591[a]	110
Sweden	28,000	28,235	28,731	29,311	29,982	30,221	30,484	30,990	31,788	31,776	31,852	32,049	31,499	32,261	4,261
Switzerland	35,717	35,933	36,272	36,364	36,909	37,480	37,655	37,855	38,013	37,516	37,487	37,970[a]	38,910[a]	39,213[a]	3,496
United Kingdom	27,224	27,459	27,517	26,758	27,170	27,556	28,019	29,373	29,347	29,470	29,883	30,363	29,205	30,239	3,015
United States	41,467	41,229	41,685	42,137	43,118	42,320	43,469	44,744	45,276	46,068	47,188	48,549	51,471	52,400	10,933

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)

Country	2007	2011	2015	2018	2021*	2022**
Luxembourg	26,847	26,601	29,285	27,550	32,132	33,214
Switzerland	20,504	22,833	26,545	26,934	26,350	27,161
Norway	20,700	24,251	28,353	26,296	26,327	27,093
Netherlands	17,538	18,833	19,389	21,543	24,551	25,436
Austria	17,810	20,425	21,981	23,204	24,450	25,119
Belgium	16,312	18,106	19,954	21,336	22,696	24,124
Denmark	16,875	19,184	20,384	21,641	22,899	23,244
Germany	17,323	18,395	20,342	21,917	23,337	23,197
Finland	15,241	17,933	19,430	20,048	20,078	20,941
Malta	12,442	14,029	16,753	17,932	19,012	20,698
France	15,166	18,170	19,885	20,260	20,100	20,575
Sweden	15,911	18,031	20,154	20,429	20,673	20,568
Ireland	17,722	16,628	17,656	19,464	20,099	20,207
Cyprus	18,252	19,162	15,313	17,505	18,334	19,719
Slovenia	12,922	13,940	15,102	15,771	17,579	18,792
Italy	14,497	15,776	15,395	16,715	17,304	18,472
Spain	12,689	14,424	14,463	16,030	16,303	17,255
Estonia	6,490	7,491	10,423	13,374	14,805	17,075
Czechia	8,841	9,989	11,652	13,264	13,815	15,354
Poland	5,609	8,333	9,957	11,546	13,859	14,953
Lithuania	5,708	6,068	8,251	10,702	13,742	14,202
Latvia	5,585	5,944	8,108	10,016	12,003	12,899
Croatia	-	7,423	8,253	9,870	11,385	12,277
Portugal	8,919	9,621	10,317	10,801	12,404	12,267
Greece	11,320	11,627	8,810	9,258	9,920	10,841
Hungary	6,490	7,135	7,938	8,634	9,983	10,229
Romania	2,783	3,641	4,357	6,278	8,693	10,039
Slovakia	5,606	8,975	10,220	9,744	9,425	9,826
Bulgaria	3,296	5,824	6,882	7,208	9,375	9,671
Serbia	-	-	4,722	5,226	6,968	7,567
Montenegro	-	-	5,645	6,831	6,328	7,304
Turkey	4,054	4,766	5,668	6,467	6,215	-
Albania	-	-	-	4,003	4,275	-
Iceland	19,893	18,024	20,804	23,637	-	-
United Kingdom	18,774	15,776	17,784	18,423	-	-
North Macedonia	-	-	4,556	5,496	-	-
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.

See also

• Income distribution
• List of countries by wealth per adult

References

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