Table 9: Gini coefficient and inequality ratios for equivalised household income (before housing costs).
Year
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993-94
1994-95
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
1998-99
1999-00
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
Country
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
UK
UK
UK
UK
UK
UK
UK
UK
Gini
0.26
0.25
0.27
0.26
0.25
0.26
0.25
0.25
0.26
0.26
0.27
0.27
0.26
0.25
0.24
0.24
0.24
0.24
0.25
0.26
0.26
0.26
0.27
0.27
0.28
0.29
0.31
0.32
0.33
0.34
0.34
0.34
0.34
0.33
0.33
0.33
0.34
0.35
0.35
0.35
0.35
0.35
0.34
0.34
0.35
0.35
0.36
0.36
0.36
90/10 ratio
50/10 ratio
90/50 ratio
3.21
3.11
3.34
3.26
3.09
3.19
2.98
2.98
3.13
3.21
3.28
3.41
3.20
3.08
3.03
2.98
2.95
2.95
3.12
3.22
3.24
3.10
3.20
3.18
3.37
3.49
3.81
4.12
4.15
4.38
4.44
4.27
4.25
4.08
4.06
4.13
4.16
4.23
4.15
4.17
4.12
4.08
4.02
3.98
4.06
4.15
4.22
4.21
4.09
1.86
1.85
1.94
1.84
1.85
1.85
1.80
1.77
1.82
1.82
1.86
1.92
1.82
1.82
1.78
1.74
1.72
1.75
1.79
1.85
1.77
1.73
1.74
1.75
1.81
1.87
1.93
2.08
2.11
2.15
2.14
2.09
2.07
1.98
1.96
2.03
2.04
2.04
2.03
2.02
2.00
2.01
2.00
1.97
2.00
2.04
2.05
2.03
1.99
1.73
1.68
1.72
1.77
1.67
1.72
1.65
1.69
1.72
1.76
1.76
1.78
1.76
1.70
1.71
1.71
1.72
1.68
1.75
1.74
1.83
1.79
1.84
1.82
1.87
1.86
1.98
1.99
1.96
2.03
2.08
2.04
2.05
2.05
2.07
2.04
2.04
2.08
2.05
2.06
2.06
2.03
2.01
2.02
2.03
2.04
2.05
2.07
2.06
Notes
IFS data from Family Expenditure Survey until 1993/4, Family Resource Survey after this date. Data from IFS ‘Poverty and
Inequality in the UK: 2011’ IFS Commentary C118, www.ifs.org.uk/bns/bn19figs.zip . From 1977 the HBAI data is
available from ONS. This data is based on equivalent adults to take account of households of differing sizes and composition.
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