The richest tenth's share of income
Topic: Work and income
The richest tenth received 29.3% of all equivalised disposable income in Bulgaria, against 19.0% in Slovakia.
In 2025, the richest tenth of a country's people received 23.2% of its equivalised disposable income, on average across the EU weighted by population. The income is that of the calendar year before the survey.
- Figures for:
- 2025.
- Covers:
- the time of the survey.
- New data:
- once a year.
- Dataset updated:
- 23 October 2026.
Published 4 November 2026
The ranking
In 2025, the richest tenth's share of equivalised disposable income ranged from 19.0% in Slovakia to 29.3% in Bulgaria.
Richest tenth's share of equivalised disposable income, %
2025About the data
The share of a country's total equivalised disposable income that goes to one income group of its population, by default the tenth with the highest income.
Eurostat: “The Distribution of income by quantiles describes the following two indicators: Share of national disposable income in the relevant quintile as percentage of total national disposable income (SHARE), and The top cut-off point of the respective quantile (TC)” (source)
EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC), a yearly sample survey of households run by the national statistical institutes, in some countries combined with administrative records. A household's income after taxes and social contributions is divided among its members by a standard scale of household size. People are then ranked by that income and divided into groups of equal size, such as ten deciles or five quintiles.
How to read these numbers
How it is measured
The survey covers people living in private households. People in collective households and institutions are generally not included (Estonia includes collective households).
The income refers to the calendar year before the survey. Until 2019, Ireland used the twelve months before the interview instead.
Income shares are sensitive to extreme incomes, especially at the top of the distribution. A Eurostat working paper of 2017 on EU-SILC lists the under-estimation of top incomes among the survey's data quality issues.
The EU figure is the average of the national figures, weighted by population. It is not the share of an income group of the whole EU population.
Provisional figures
A provisional value (flag p) may still be revised. This concerns Lithuania (2025).
Sources and data
Eurostat, Distribution of income by quantiles (ilc_di01). Data updated 23 October 2026, retrieved 4 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Eurostat metadata · Eurostat methodology
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/ilc_di01?format=JSON&lang=en&freq=A&geo=AT&geo=BE&geo=BG&geo=CY&geo=CZ&geo=DE&geo=DK&geo=EE&geo=EL&geo=ES&geo=EU27_2020&geo=FI&geo=FR&geo=HR&geo=HU&geo=IE&geo=IT&geo=LT&geo=LU&geo=LV&geo=MT&geo=NL&geo=PL&geo=PT&geo=RO&geo=SE&geo=SI&geo=SK&quant_inc=D10&statinfo=SHARE&unit=EURRelated stories
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