About this data

Source: Scottish Government, Poverty and income inequality in Scotland 2022-25; Department for Communities (NI), Northern Ireland poverty and income inequality report 2024/25; DWP, Households below average income

• The Gini coefficient measures inequality on a scale from 0 to 100: 0 if everyone had the same income, 100 if one person had all of it.
• All three come from the Family Resources Survey. Scotland's and the UK's figures are three-year averages, shown by the last year (2025 is 2022/23 to 2024/25); the UK's are averaged here from DWP's single-year figures. Northern Ireland's are single years, published only from 2021/22 on the current method.
• From 2021/22, the survey uses government records of benefits, which slightly changed the figures. The Welsh Government doesn't publish an official measure of income inequality for Wales.

This chart appears in Inequality.