{"id":469134,"date":"2026-10-23T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/23\/calano-di-poco-le-disuguaglianze-sui-redditi-nellue-nel-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T14:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:58:33","slug":"eu-income-inequality-falls-slightly-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/23\/eu-income-inequality-falls-slightly-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"EU income inequality falls slightly in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussel – Economic equality across the European Union is a pipe dream, but there is a glimmer of hope. According to Eurostat, the EU\u2019s statistical office, income inequality in the Union has slightly diminished<\/a>. More specifically, the Gini coefficient has fallen from 29.4 in 2024 to 29.2 in 2025.<\/strong> The Gini coefficient measures the level of inequality in income distribution: the lower it is, the more equitable the distribution. A value of 0 represents perfect equality, where everyone has the same income, while a value of 100 indicates complete inequality, where a single person receives the entire income. In 2025, the figure varied amongst Member States from 23 in Slovakia to 37.7 in Bulgaria<\/strong>. The countries with the most equitable income distribution were Belgium<\/strong> (23.4), the Czech Republic<\/strong> (24.0), Slovenia<\/strong> (24.6) and Poland<\/strong> (24.9). For Italy, the figure was 31.<\/p>\n

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The agency has also analysed<\/a> the percentage of people at risk of poverty<\/a> at the regional level<\/a>, classifying them according to level 2 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics<\/a> (NUTS). This is a geographical classification system that divides the Union\u2019s economic territory into three levels of regions \u2013 NUTS 1, 2 and 3 \u2013 ranging from larger to smaller territorial units. Above NUTS 1 lies the \u2018national\u2019 level of the Member States. In general, the at-risk-of-poverty rate, calculated based on 2019 data, has fallen across the EU<\/strong>, standing at 13.0 per cent in 2025, compared with 16.5 per cent in 2019.<\/p>\n

Of all the EU regions, the French overseas region of French Guiana recorded the highest proportion of people at risk of poverty (50.7 per cent).\u00a0Across the EU, eight regions had a percentage of people at risk of poverty ranging from 30.1 to 39.3 per cent<\/strong>. These include: two of the French overseas departments<\/strong> (R\u00e9union and Guadeloupe); two of the Spanish autonomous cities<\/strong> (Ceuta and Melilla); three regions in Italy (Calabria, Campania, and Sicily)<\/strong>; one region in Greece<\/strong> (the Peloponnese).<\/p>\n

Twenty-eight NUTS 2 regions in the EU recorded percentages of people at risk of poverty below\u00a010 per cent. These include: six regions in Italy<\/strong> (Aosta Valley, Lombardy, the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, the Autonomous Province of Trento, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Emilia-Romagna); five regions in Belgium<\/strong> (the Province of Limburg (BE), East Flanders, Flemish Brabant, West Flanders and the Province of Walloon Brabant); four regions in the Czech Republic<\/strong> (Prague, Central Bohemia, South-East Bohemia and Central Moravia) and in Hungary (Budapest, Pest, K\u00f6z\u00e9p-Dun\u00e1nt\u00fal and Nyugat-Dun\u00e1nt\u00fal); three regions in Poland<\/strong> (Silesia, Lower Silesia and the Warsaw Region); two regions in Slovakia<\/strong> (the Bratislava Region and Western Slovakia); one region each in Spain<\/strong> (the Basque Country), Denmark<\/strong> (Zealand), Austria<\/strong> (Burgenland) and Romania<\/strong> (Bucharest-Ilfov).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gini coefficient fell from 29.4 in 2024 to 29.2 in 2025; in Italy, it stood at 31, above the EU-27 average<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":469082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[35616,26897,33580,25801,26929,27736,30062,31425,26718,25952,27803,31284,26360,26870,28222],"class_list":["post-469134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-agenzia-di-statistica-dellunione-europea-2","tag-austria-en","tag-belgio","tag-belgian-cat-en","tag-inbulgaria","tag-czechrepublic-en","tag-danimarca-at","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-greece-en","tag-poland-and","tag-poverta-en","tag-romania-en","tag-slovakia-and","tag-spain-en","tag-statistics-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469143,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469134\/revisions\/469143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}