Gini Coefficient Before And After Taxes And Transfers. These data showing ginis before and after taxes and transfers and the net difference are ordered on the horizontal axis by the size of the percentage difference change between the before after coefficients. The gini coefficient is a number between 0 and 1 where 0 corresponds with perfect equality where everyone has the same income and 1 corresponds with perfect inequality where one person has all the incomeand everyone else has no income.
Ireland which ranked highest before taxes and transfers but 10th after. The difference in countries gini coefficients after taxes and transfers correlates strongly with the economic weight of government. Oecd income distribution questionnaire isl che n la.
Ireland which ranked highest before taxes and transfers but 10th after.
Download scientific diagram gini coefficients before and after taxes and transfers in oecd countries 2012 from publication. After taxes and transfers several countries have a lower gini coefficient compared to singapore. Among the 31 oecd countries for which recent before and after gini scores are available the average differential was 0163. A value of zero indicates that all citizens have an identical income.