Adjusted gross disposable income of households per capita, selected European countries (‘000 EUR, 2019 – last available year, Eurostat)

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  1. I made this as a follow-up of [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/shywsw/household_net_adjusted_annual_disposable_income/)

    Source: [Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sdg_10_20/default/table?lang=en), suggested by u/Econ_Orc

    A few interesting notes:

    * NL = Belgium ≈ France (in GDP per capita, NL is much higher)
    * France is higher than Denmark, Finland, UK, Sweden (do these countries have much higher taxes than France?)
    * Ireland (corporate tax haven): a very large discrepency between disposable income and GDP per capita
    * Except for Luxembourg and Cyprus, the countries not shown are lower than Portugal; Malta doesn’t have this data (see Source for a more extended table)

    Edits: added last bullet point

  3. No way Britain is lower than Belgium, France. Go to the banlews of Brussels and Paris, one can find extreme poverty.

  4. The most striking conclusion from this is that Ireland is much poorer than what they show with the inflated GDP numbers.

    Most Irish people believe they have surpassed Britain in wealth. Keep lying to yourself lmao

  9. The median is a much better statistic to use for proper comparison. The median for Ireland ranks in 6th for 2020 (€26,250)…behind Switzerland, Norway, Luxembourg and Austria.

    It’s also ahead of the UK.

    Our GDP may be inflated but we’re still a prosperous country.

  10. For perspective, the US has an adjusted gross disposable income of $42,800 as of 2019, that’s roughly 38,000 Euros. Thus making it higher than Switzerland.

  11. The chart tells me that if you can work from anywhere and get Irish wages then head to Portugal. Coffee and a pastry for 2 euros, beers for 1.20, rent for 800 a month and so on. An Irish wage would go a long way down there and theyve got great weather.

  15. This title isn’t very helpful. There is no such thing as “households per capita” it should be either *per capita* or *household*. Also it should state whether this is the mean or median. With the median being the preferred measure.

  17. This is pretty shocking when you compare the price of living in Switzerland and Germany. That means the Germans have a much larger purchasing power?

  18. The median figures from Eurostat also consider PPS. Ireland comes out substantially better when looking at the median. Perhaps wealth inequality isn’t as high as in others. I don’t know, I’m just guessing.

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