About this data

Source: World Inequality Database (WID.world), United Kingdom

• Pre-tax national income includes all income from work and wealth (including income that isn't paid out to households, such as company profits that are kept and reinvested), before taxes and benefits but after pensions. Shares are of income among adults, with income split equally between couples. Before 1980, estimates are based mainly on income tax records.
• These shares are higher than survey-based measures, because they include income that never reaches households and capture the richest better.

This chart appears in Inequality.