Income and wealth
4 questions, with yearly data from 1960 to 2025.
Questions
| Question | Years | Trust |
|---|---|---|
| How has US median household income changed since 1967, overall and by race and Hispanic origin?87,460 2025 dollars of median household income, 2025 income, collected February-April 2026 | 1967–2025 | 63 Moderate |
| How have average wages, after inflation, changed in each country since 1990?41 countries % change in average annual wages per full-time-equivalent employee after inflation, since 1990 or the first year available | 1960–2025 | 71 Moderate |
| How have house prices changed compared with incomes in each country since 1970?40 countries house price-to-income ratio, index (2015 = 100) | 1970–2025 | 63 Moderate |
| How much of each country's income goes to the top 10%, and how has that changed since 1980?216 countries % of pre-tax national income received by the top 10% of adults | 1980–2025 | 57 Low |
Longest trends (1)
The longest yearly series on each page, from the source that counts most. Hover or use arrow keys for each year.
- Median household income, all households, 2025 (in 2025 dollars)
2025 dollars of median household income, 1967–2025, CPS ASEC
Who publishes what (1 countries, 1 breakdowns)
Years this site has for each country and breakdown. "Stopped" means the country's figures in the UN homicide file stop after that year while its totals continue (reporting gaps). An empty cell means no source on this site, not that none exists.
Recorded changes in how sources report (717)
- 2024, WID: WID grades 2024 as carried forward or backward from the nearest estimate (data-quality grade 1), after one type of source (survey or tax data) the year before. source · page
- 2024, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2024 survey as not comparable with the 2023 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2024, WID: WID grades 2024 as carried forward or backward from the nearest estimate (data-quality grade 1), after tax and survey data, at least one in tabulated form the year before. source · page
- 2024, WID: WID grades 2024 as one type of source (survey or tax data) (data-quality grade 3), after linear interpolation between two estimates the year before. source · page
- 2023, WID: WID grades 2023–2024 as carried forward or backward from the nearest estimate (data-quality grade 1), after one type of source (survey or tax data) the year before. source · page
- 2023, WID: WID grades 2023–2024 as carried forward or backward from the nearest estimate (data-quality grade 1), after tax and survey data, at least one in tabulated form the year before. source · page
- 2023, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2023 survey as not comparable with the 2022 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2023, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2023 survey as not comparable with the 2012 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2023, WID: WID grades 2023 as one type of source (survey or tax data) (data-quality grade 3), after linear interpolation between two estimates the year before. source · page
- 2023, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2023 survey as not comparable with the 2016 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2022, OECD: Change in the national input as documented by the BIS (OECD documents no source history for its own series): From Q1 2022: MLS Home Price Index again. (BIS documentation, page 3.) source · page
- 2022, BIS: From Q1 2022: MLS Home Price Index again. (BIS documentation, page 3.) source · page
- 2022, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2022 survey as not comparable with the 2021 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2022, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2022 survey as not comparable with the 2016 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2022, WID: WID grades 2022–2024 as carried forward or backward from the nearest estimate (data-quality grade 1), after one type of source (survey or tax data) the year before. source · page
- 2022, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2022 survey as not comparable with the 2017 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2022, WID: WID grades 2022 as one type of source (survey or tax data) (data-quality grade 3), after linear interpolation between two estimates the year before. source · page
- 2022, WID: WID grades 2022 as tax and survey data, at least one in tabulated form (data-quality grade 4), after linear interpolation between two estimates the year before. source · page
- 2022, WID: WID grades 2022 as one type of source (survey or tax data) (data-quality grade 3), after carried forward or backward from the nearest estimate the year before. source · page
- 2022, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2022 survey as not comparable with the 2011 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2022, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2022 survey as not comparable with the 2018 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2022, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2022 survey as not comparable with the 2010 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2022, World Bank: The survey measure changes from income in 1999 to consumption in 2022. source · page
- 2022, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2022 survey as not comparable with the 2009 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2022, WID: WID grades 2022–2024 as carried forward or backward from the nearest estimate (data-quality grade 1), after tax and survey data, at least one in tabulated form the year before. source · page
- 2021, WID: WID grades 2021–2024 as carried forward or backward from the nearest estimate (data-quality grade 1), after one type of source (survey or tax data) the year before. source · page
- 2021, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2021 survey as not comparable with the 2020 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2021, WID: WID grades 2021 as one type of source (survey or tax data) (data-quality grade 3), after linear interpolation between two estimates the year before. source · page
- 2021, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2021 survey as not comparable with the 2014 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2021, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2021 survey as not comparable with the 2008 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2021, WID: WID grades 2021 as linear interpolation between two estimates (data-quality grade 2), after tax and survey data, at least one in tabulated form the year before. source · page
- 2021, WID: WID grades 2021 as carried forward or backward from the nearest estimate (data-quality grade 1), after one type of source (survey or tax data) the year before. source · page
- 2021, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2021 survey as not comparable with the 2019 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2021, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2021 survey as not comparable with the 2012 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2021, WID: WID grades 2021 as linear interpolation between two estimates (data-quality grade 2), after one type of source (survey or tax data) the year before. source · page
- 2021, WID: WID grades 2021–2024 as carried forward or backward from the nearest estimate (data-quality grade 1), after tax and survey data, at least one in tabulated form the year before. source · page
- 2021, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2021 survey as not comparable with the 2015 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
- 2021, World Bank: The survey measure changes from consumption in 2003 to income in 2021. source · page
- 2020, CPS ASEC: 2020 income was collected in the 2021 CPS ASEC, response rate 65.0%. Census found nonresponse bias continued: median household income of all households was about 2.0% lower with its alternative weights. The published table keeps the survey weights. source · page
- 2020, World Bank: The World Bank marks the 2020 survey as not comparable with the 2019 survey (a new comparable spell starts). source · page
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