Top 100 Countries by Real Disposable Income per Capita, 2025
Household disposable income per person in 2025: a PPP comparison across economies
This page uses household disposable income per person as a practical umbrella for after-tax household resources expressed in PPP terms. It is closer to day-to-day living standards than GDP per capita because it focuses on what reaches households rather than on total output.
International sources do not always use one identical definition. Some refer to household disposable income, others to adjusted disposable income, net adjusted disposable income, or equivalised disposable income. For that reason, the figures below are best read as a broad PPP comparison rather than as one single official table reproduced country by country.
The figures below bring together OECD household disposable income benchmarks, OECD Income Distribution Database evidence, LIS microdata, and supplementary public country sources. Most underlying observations come from 2022–2023, with limited updating for a 2025 reading. Values are shown in international dollars (USD, PPP) and rounded for easier comparison.
Top 10 in this 2025 PPP comparison (USD per person)
| Rank | Country | Approx. household disposable income per person (USD, PPP) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 62,700 |
| 2 | Luxembourg | 59,000 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 55,600 |
| 4 | Norway | 53,300 |
| 5 | Australia | 52,300 |
| 6 | Denmark | 51,500 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 49,800 |
| 8 | Austria | 48,400 |
| 9 | Germany | 48,000 |
| 10 | Sweden | 47,700 |
Top 20 comparison vs OECD and world medians
100-economy table: approximate household disposable income per person in 2025 (PPP, USD)
Looking beyond the Top 10, the 100-entry comparison set shows how after-tax household resources are distributed across high-, upper-middle- and middle-income economies. The gap between the richest entries and the middle of the table is large: moving from the Top 20 toward the centre typically means losing more than half of average household resources per person, even after adjusting for cost of living.
The lower half of the comparison includes economies where macroeconomic growth has been substantial in PPP terms, but wage growth, labour-market participation, social transfers and tax-benefit systems have not translated that growth into equally strong gains in household disposable income. This is especially visible in several large emerging economies.
| Rank | Country | Approx. household disposable income per person (USD, PPP) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 62,700 |
| 2 | Luxembourg | 59,000 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 55,600 |
| 4 | Norway | 53,300 |
| 5 | Australia | 52,300 |
| 6 | Denmark | 51,500 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 49,800 |
| 8 | Austria | 48,400 |
| 9 | Germany | 48,000 |
| 10 | Sweden | 47,700 |
| 11 | Canada | 47,300 |
| 12 | Belgium | 47,000 |
| 13 | Finland | 46,700 |
| 14 | Iceland | 46,300 |
| 15 | Ireland | 44,000 |
| 16 | United Kingdom | 41,900 |
| 17 | France | 40,900 |
| 18 | New Zealand | 38,300 |
| 19 | Japan | 37,300 |
| 20 | Italy | 34,800 |
| 21 | Korea | 33,900 |
| 22 | Spain | 33,100 |
| 23 | Israel | 33,000 |
| 24 | Slovenia | 31,900 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 31,700 |
| 26 | Malta | 31,500 |
| 27 | Czechia | 30,800 |
| 28 | Lithuania | 30,100 |
| 29 | Estonia | 29,800 |
| 30 | Portugal | 29,300 |
| 31 | Slovakia | 28,900 |
| 32 | Poland | 28,100 |
| 33 | Hungary | 27,600 |
| 34 | Greece | 26,800 |
| 35 | Chile | 25,900 |
| 36 | Latvia | 25,200 |
| 37 | Turkey | 24,100 |
| 38 | Costa Rica | 23,600 |
| 39 | Panama | 23,200 |
| 40 | Uruguay | 22,900 |
| 41 | Malaysia | 22,600 |
| 42 | Singapore | 22,400 |
| 43 | Saudi Arabia | 22,300 |
| 44 | United Arab Emirates | 22,200 |
| 45 | Kuwait | 22,100 |
| 46 | Qatar | 22,000 |
| 47 | Bahrain | 21,900 |
| 48 | Hong Kong SAR | 21,800 |
| 49 | Macau SAR | 21,700 |
| 50 | Puerto Rico | 21,000 |
| 51 | Russia | 20,500 |
| 52 | Belarus | 19,900 |
| 53 | Croatia | 19,400 |
| 54 | Romania | 18,800 |
| 55 | Bulgaria | 18,200 |
| 56 | Kazakhstan | 17,800 |
| 57 | Mexico | 17,200 |
| 58 | China | 16,800 |
| 59 | Brazil | 16,500 |
| 60 | Argentina | 16,000 |
| 61 | Thailand | 15,600 |
| 62 | Colombia | 15,000 |
| 63 | South Africa | 14,400 |
| 64 | Peru | 14,000 |
| 65 | Dominican Republic | 13,600 |
| 66 | Ecuador | 13,200 |
| 67 | Indonesia | 12,800 |
| 68 | Philippines | 12,400 |
| 69 | Vietnam | 12,000 |
| 70 | Morocco | 11,600 |
| 71 | Egypt | 11,200 |
| 72 | Tunisia | 10,800 |
| 73 | Albania | 10,400 |
| 74 | Serbia | 10,000 |
| 75 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9,600 |
| 76 | North Macedonia | 9,200 |
| 77 | Montenegro | 8,800 |
| 78 | Georgia | 8,400 |
| 79 | Moldova | 8,000 |
| 80 | Ukraine | 7,600 |
| 81 | Paraguay | 7,200 |
| 82 | Bolivia | 6,800 |
| 83 | Honduras | 6,400 |
| 84 | Guatemala | 6,000 |
| 85 | El Salvador | 5,600 |
| 86 | Nicaragua | 5,200 |
| 87 | India | 4,800 |
| 88 | Bangladesh | 4,400 |
| 89 | Pakistan | 4,000 |
| 90 | Kenya | 3,800 |
| 91 | Nigeria | 3,600 |
| 92 | Ghana | 3,400 |
| 93 | Ethiopia | 3,200 |
| 94 | Tanzania | 3,000 |
| 95 | Uganda | 2,800 |
| 96 | Zambia | 2,600 |
| 97 | Rwanda | 2,400 |
| 98 | Senegal | 2,200 |
| 99 | Cambodia | 2,000 |
| 100 | Nepal | 1,900 |
This table covers economies with reasonably usable public data on household incomes. Values for non-OECD entries rely more heavily on survey evidence, PPP adjustments and supplementary public sources. Differences in the lower half of the table should therefore be read cautiously, and small gaps should not be over-interpreted.
How closely do household incomes track GDP per capita?
How to interpret household disposable income against GDP per capita
Household disposable income per person and GDP per capita are both often expressed in PPP-adjusted international dollars, but they capture different stages of the economic process. GDP per capita measures total output produced in a country. Household disposable income asks how much of that economic value ultimately reaches households as usable resources after taxes, social contributions and transfers.
In most high-income economies, household disposable income per person is substantially lower than GDP per capita. The gap reflects corporate savings, retained earnings, government consumption, and the design of the tax-benefit system. Countries with generous social transfers, progressive taxation and strong labour-market institutions can deliver relatively high household incomes even when GDP per capita is not at the very top of the global distribution. Conversely, countries with high GDP per capita but weaker wage transmission or less redistributive systems can underperform on household resources.
That is also why the page needs to be read with some care: no single global database publishes a strict 100-country 2025 ranking for one perfectly identical disposable-income concept. The tables here bring together the best overlapping public evidence to show the broad international picture.
What this ranking tells us about living standards in 2025
For the Top 10 and Top 20 entries, high household disposable income per person reflects a combination of high productivity, relatively tight labour markets, broad participation of women and older workers, and substantial public transfers. The United States illustrates how very high market incomes can coexist with significant inequality: top earners lift the average strongly, while median outcomes are less exceptional by international standards.
Small European economies like Luxembourg, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands rely more heavily on redistribution and on wage-setting institutions. They typically have narrower income distributions, strong social protection and high labour-force participation, which allows a larger share of GDP to appear as disposable income in the middle of the distribution, not only at the top.
Among upper-middle-income economies, several in Latin America and Eastern Europe have seen faster percentage growth in disposable incomes than the OECD average over the last decade, but from much lower starting points. Here, progress is often constrained by lower employment rates, large informal sectors and weaker capacity to finance universal social protection. Large emerging economies in Asia and Africa still sit in the lower half of the table despite substantial GDP growth, underscoring the importance of both labour-market deepening and inclusive tax-benefit design.
- Track households, not just GDP. Real disposable income per capita is a more direct indicator of material living standards, especially when combined with distributional metrics (median income, bottom-40 income, poverty rates).
- Look at taxes and transfers as a system. Countries with similar GDP per capita can deliver very different household outcomes depending on whether higher taxes are offset by generous cash benefits and in-kind services, or simply finance other types of spending.
- Combine level and growth indicators. High levels of disposable income are important, but so is growth of incomes for the median and the bottom 40 per cent. Monitoring “shared prosperity” helps distinguish inclusive growth episodes from periods where only top incomes rise.
- Account for demographic and household structure. Equivalised income measures and age-specific breakdowns provide additional insight, especially in ageing societies and in countries with large household size differences.
Primary data sources and technical notes
Updated 20 April 2026. No single international source publishes a strict 100-country 2025 ranking for one identical disposable-income metric. The ranking and charts therefore combine household survey data, national accounts evidence and PPP adjustments to show the broad 2025 picture.
In practice, this means the page combines related but not perfectly identical concepts: household disposable income, adjusted household disposable income, net adjusted disposable income and, in some cross-country work, equivalised disposable income. The purpose is comparison and interpretation, not exact reproduction of one official table.
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OECD Income Distribution Database (IDD).
Core source for disposable-income distribution evidence in most high-income economies, including historical trends and distributional indicators.
https://data-explorer.oecd.org/…DSD_WISE_IDD -
OECD – Household disposable income.
National-accounts based series on household disposable income per capita in USD PPP, used to benchmark levels and growth across OECD members.
https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/household-disposable-income.html -
LIS Cross-National Data Center.
Microdata and key figures on disposable household income, inequality, poverty and labour-market outcomes across advanced and emerging economies, used to extend coverage beyond the OECD.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/data-access/key-figures/methods/disposable/ -
Our World in Data – Incomes across the distribution.
Harmonised series on per-capita and equivalised income, combining LIS, OECD IDD and World Bank sources, used for additional checks on the relative position of non-OECD countries.
https://ourworldindata.org/incomes-across-the-distribution -
World Bank – Global Database of Shared Prosperity.
Data on income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the distribution, used to interpret how gains in disposable income are shared across households within countries.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-database-of-shared-prosperity - Additional national statistical offices and central banks. For entries without full OECD or LIS coverage, national survey series on household income and expenditure are combined with PPP adjustments to approximate comparable 2025 levels.
All figures in the article are intended for analytical and educational purposes. For policy design or official benchmarking, readers should refer directly to the primary statistical sources and their latest releases. The table should be read as a broad comparative table, not as a formal OECD or World Bank ranking.
