Key information about Australia Gini Coefficient

• Australia Gini Coefficient was reported at 0.324 NA in Jun 2020.
• This records a decrease from the previous number of 0.328 NA for Jun 2018.
• Australia Gini Coefficient data is updated yearly, averaging 0.313 NA from Jun 1995 to 2020, with 16 observations.
• The data reached an all-time high of 0.336 NA in 2008 and a record low of 0.292 NA in 1997.
• Australia Gini Coefficient data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics.
• The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.H028: Survey of Income and Housing: Equivalized Disposable Household Income.

This table contains estimates of Incomes (Median Equivalised, Median Disposable), Poverty (using the proportion of people below a half median equivalised disposable household income poverty line), Inequality (using the Gini coefficient) and financial stress (Had no access to emergency money, Can't afford a night out once a fortnight and Leaving low income from benefit). Leaving low income from benefit is the gross earning (expressed as a percentage of average full time earnings) required for a family to reach a 60% of median household income threshold from benefits of last resort (State welfare payments or income support). All estimates were derived using a spatial microsimulation model which used the Survey of Income and Housing and the 2011 Census data as base datasets, so they are synthetic estimates. This table forms part of the AURIN Social Indicators project.