UK income inequality measures 2022

In the 2021/22 financial year, various measures of inequality in the United Kingdom increased when compared with previous years. Compared with ten years earlier, the S80/20 ratio has increased from 5.3 to 6.3, the P90/10 ratio from 4.1 to 4.5, and the Palma ratio has between 1.4 and 1.5.

Measures of income inequality in the United Kingdom from 1977 to 2021/22

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January 2023

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

1977 to 2022

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The source adds the following information regarding the different inequality measures:

S80/S20 ratio: Ratio of the total income received by the richest 20% of people to that received by the poorest 20%.
P90/P10 ratio: Ratio of the income of the person at the bottom of the top 10% with that of the person at the top of the bottom 10%
Palma ratio Ratio of the income share of the richest 10% of people with that of the poorest 40% of people.

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