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Read more in our topic page on [Economic Inequality](https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality).","This data shows the share of total income that goes to specific groups of the population. For example, if the richest decile receives 40% of total income, it means the richest 10% of people share 40% of all income between them.","Income is measured before taxes have been paid and most government benefits have been received. The exception is pensions and other social insurance, such as unemployment insurance. Contributions to social insurance are deducted, and the corresponding benefits are added back and counted as income.","The data comes from the World Inequality Database (WID), which combines household surveys, tax records, and national accounts to estimate how a country's total national income is distributed across the population. Because tax records have direct information on high earners, this approach captures more of the income received by those at the top of the distribution than surveys alone.","For some countries and years, the underlying data sources (household surveys, tax records) are not available. In these cases, estimates are extrapolated from other years or modeled based on data from other countries, which introduces uncertainty. For more information, see the [WID methodology documentation](https://wid.world/document/distributional-national-accounts-dina-guidelines-2025-methods-and-concepts-used-in-the-world-inequality-database/)."],"origins":[{"id":14189,"titleSnapshot":"World Inequality Database (WID) - Key indicators","title":"World Inequality Database (WID)","description":"The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.","producer":"World Inequality Database (WID.world)","citationFull":"World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world","attributionShort":"WID","urlMain":"https://wid.world","dateAccessed":"2026-03-17","datePublished":"2026","license":{"url":"https://wid.world/","name":"CC BY 4.0"}},{"id":14190,"titleSnapshot":"World Inequality Database (WID) - Key indicators (with extrapolations)","title":"World Inequality Database (WID)","description":"The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.","producer":"World Inequality Database (WID.world)","citationFull":"World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world","attributionShort":"WID","urlMain":"https://wid.world","dateAccessed":"2026-03-17","datePublished":"2026","license":{"url":"https://wid.world/","name":"CC BY 4.0"}}]}