Gini Index by country
Income inequality (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality).
Global trend
Mean stress score across all countries for which data is available, over the last 12 months.
Where the pressure is concentrated
The five most-affected and five least-affected countries on this indicator right now.
Most affected
- 1South Africa54.1 index97
- 2Brazil50.3 index84
- 3Turkey43.9 index63
- 4Mexico42.6 index59
- 5Argentina42.4 index58
Least affected
- 1Poland24.9 index0
- 2Norway23.7 index0
- 3India25.5 index2
- 4Netherlands25.9 index3
- 5Sweden28.6 index12
Full ranking
All 22 tracked countries, ordered from most to least affected. Click any country to see its full composite breakdown.
| # | Country | Raw value | Stress score | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 54.1 index | 97.0 | 2022-12-31 |
| 2 | Brazil | 50.3 index | 84.3 | 2024-12-31 |
| 3 | Turkey | 43.9 index | 63.0 | 2025-12-31 |
| 4 | Mexico | 42.6 index | 58.7 | 2024-12-31 |
| 5 | Argentina | 42.4 index | 58.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 6 | United States | 41.8 index | 56.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 7 | Israel | 38.3 index | 44.3 | 2022-12-31 |
| 8 | Australia | 33.8 index | 29.3 | 2020-12-31 |
| 9 | South Korea | 32.9 index | 26.3 | 2021-12-31 |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 32.4 index | 24.7 | 2021-12-31 |
| 11 | Japan | 32.3 index | 24.3 | 2020-12-31 |
| 12 | Canada | 31.5 index | 21.7 | 2022-12-31 |
| 13 | Switzerland | 31.0 index | 20.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 14 | Italy | 31.0 index | 20.0 | 2025-12-31 |
| 15 | Spain | 30.8 index | 19.3 | 2025-12-31 |
| 16 | France | 30.4 index | 18.0 | 2025-12-31 |
| 17 | Germany | 30.1 index | 17.0 | 2025-12-31 |
| 18 | Sweden | 28.6 index | 12.0 | 2025-12-31 |
| 19 | Netherlands | 25.9 index | 3.0 | 2025-12-31 |
| 20 | India | 25.5 index | 1.7 | 2022-12-31 |
| 21 | Norway | 23.7 index | 0.0 | 2025-12-31 |
| 22 | Poland | 24.9 index | 0.0 | 2025-12-31 |
Why it matters
Gini Index is a contributing indicator to the Economic meta-index, one of the five dimensions of The Human Index composite. Higher raw value = more stress.
Movements in this indicator are tracked daily and feed into every country's composite score on the next cron cycle.
Source & methodology
Raw values are normalized to a 0–100 stress scale per the bounds documented in the codebase. See methodology for the full normalization and band-threshold derivation.