Disposable household and per capita income

Household income is a measure of income received by the household sector. It includes every form of cash income, e.g., salaries and wages, retirement income, investment income and cash transfers from government. It may include near-cash government transfers like food stamps, and it may be adjusted to include social transfers in-kind, such as the value of publicly provided health care and education.

Household income can be measured on various bases, such as per household, per capita, per earner, or on an equivalised basis. Because the number of people or earners per household can vary significantly between regions and over time, the choice of measurement basis can impact household income rankings and trends.

When taxes and mandatory contributions are subtracted from household income, the result is called net or disposable household income. A region's mean or median net household income can be used as an indicator of the purchasing power or material well-being of its residents. Mean income (average) is the amount obtained by dividing the total aggregate income of a group by the number of units in that group. Median income is the amount that divides the income distribution into two equal groups, half having income above that amount, and half having income below that amount.

The list below represents a national accounts derived indicator for a country or territory's gross household disposable income per capita (including social transfers in kind). According to the OECD, 'household disposable income is income available to households such as wages and salaries, income from self-employment and unincorporated enterprises, income from pensions and other social benefits, and income from financial investments (less any payments of tax, social insurance contributions and interest on financial liabilities). 'Gross' means that depreciation costs are not subtracted.'^[1] This indicator also takes account of social transfers in kind 'such as health or education provided for free or at reduced prices by governments and not-for-profit organisations.'^[1] The data shown below is published by the OECD and is presented in purchasing power parity (PPP) in order to adjust for price differences between countries.

Household disposable income per capita (including social transfers in kind) Rank Country/Territory 2022* (USD PPP)[1] 1  United States 62,300 (2021) 2  Luxembourg 59,700 3   Switzerland 52,000 4  Germany 51,600 5  Austria 50,200 6  Netherlands 48,800 7  Norway 47,700 (2021) 8  Belgium 47,400 9  Australia 46,800 (2021) 10  France 46,400 11  Sweden 43,900 12  Finland 43,600 13  Canada 43,600 14  Denmark 42,800  European Union 41,500 15  United Kingdom 40,800 16  Italy 40,400 17  Ireland 38,300 18  Slovenia 36,600 19  Lithuania 36,300 20  Czechia 35,600 21  Spain 34,500 22  Portugal 34,500 23  Japan 33,900 (2021) 24  South Korea 32,700 25  Poland 32,200 26  New Zealand 31,900 (2019) 27  Hungary 29,800 28  Slovakia 29,500 29  Estonia 29,200 30  Latvia 28,600 31  Greece 28,000 32  Chile 23,100 (2021) 33  Russia 20,600 (2019) 34  Mexico 20,500 35  Costa Rica 17,900 (2021)

*Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred; if data is unavailable for 2022, figures for 2021, 2020 or 2019 are shown.

The median equivalised disposable income is the median of the disposable income which is equivalised by dividing income by the square root of household size; the square root is used to acknowledge that people sharing accommodation benefit from pooling at least some of their living costs.^[2][3] The median equivalised disposable income for individual countries corrected for purchasing power parity (PPP) for 2021 in United States dollars is shown in below table.^[4]

	Country	Median equivalised disposable income (US$, PPP)
1	Luxembourg	49,748
2	United States	48,625
3	Norway	41,621
4	Switzerland	39,698
5	Canada	39,388
6	Austria	37,715
7	Belgium	37,110
8	Iceland	36,853
9	Australia	36,835
10	Netherlands	35,891
11	Germany	35,537
12	Denmark	34,061
13	Sweden	33,472
14	New Zealand	32,158
15	South Korea	31,882
16	Ireland	31,392
17	Finland	30,727
18	France	30,622
19	Slovenia	28,698
20	Italy	27,949
21	United Kingdom	26,884
22	Spain	26,630
23	Estonia	26,075
24	Poland	24,264
25	Czech Republic	23,802
26	Israel	21,366
27	Japan	21,282
28	Lithuania	20,856
29	Latvia	19,908
32	Croatia	19,680
31	Portugal	19,147
32	Greece	16,774
33	Slovak Republic	16,410
34	Hungary	15,361
35	Romania	15,898
36	Bulgaria	14,990
37	Turkey	10,341
38	Chile	10,101
39	Costa Rica	8,915
40	Mexico	6,090
41	South Africa	6,068

• Income distribution
• List of countries by wealth per adult
• List of countries by GNI per capita growth