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.
• Post-tax disposable income is pre-tax income minus taxes plus cash benefits; it excludes public services such as healthcare and education.

This chart appears in Inequality.