income

In Spain 29th July 2026

Spaniards’ income remains at 92% of EU average, same as 8 years ago

Yesterday, the Prime Minister closed the political season with his usual triumphalist tone regarding the performance of the economy. A tone constantly refuted by reality and by surveys of Spaniards, which point to “housing” and the economic crisis as their main problems. Spain’s indisputable GDP growth, above 2%, is fundamentally due to the year-after-year population increase of almost half a million immigrants annually. This, combined with NextGen funds and a…

Relevant News Item, Spanish economy 14th August 2023

Real incomes of Spaniards grow by 1.3%, above OECD average

Link Securities| The real disposable income of Spanish households registered an increase of 1.3% in 1Q2023 over the previous three months, an increase above the 0.9% average for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as a whole, the think tank for advanced economies has reported, according to Europa Press. The increase in real disposable income per capita in Spain in 1Q2023 represents the second consecutive increase, after the…

Net wealth of European households lost in the crisis recovered; now is over seven times disposable income

Spanish economy 9th February 2023

Spain reports greatest loss of income (-7.85%) among OECD countries since pandemic

Of the 31 OECD countries analysed, nine recorded an increase in real per capita household income, while twelve recorded a fall, although among the large eurozone economies only Spain maintained its deterioration, with a loss of 7.85%, the worst figure of all the OECD countries. Although this household income exceeded pre-pandemic levels in the third quarter of 2022 in almost all OECD countries, Spain led the group of those that…

World economy 7th August 2014

Top One Percent Has One Third of China’s Wealth, Research Shows

BEIJING | By Zhou Dongxu (Caixin) | China’s income inequality is relatively high, and its wealth inequality, as measured by the Gini index, is greater than its income inequality. The U.S.’ income inequality index is lower than China’s, but its wealth inequality is higher – Its Gini coefficient for household wealth was 0.8, compared with China’s 0.73. This is because the United States has a relatively mature market economy, where wealth has been accumulated slowly through income and investment. Many in China, however, own homes allocated to them by the government. As those homes’ value increased, so did their wealth.