Income inequality (Gini coefficient): United States, Canada and Mexico compared

Gini coefficient of income inequality, nationally and for each state, province and estado (0 = everyone has the same income, 1 = one unit has all income). Each figure keeps its own source, reference period and definition; read the notes before comparing.

National values

Income inequality (Gini coefficient), national values. Periods: United States 2025; Canada 2024; Mexico 2024. Caution: each country measures a different income (U.S. household income before taxes, Canada adjusted after-tax income, Mexico current income per person) and reference years differ, so the order across countries is indicative only; before-tax Ginis run higher than after-tax ones.

National values
Country	Income inequality (Gini coefficient)	Period	Basis
United States	0.482	2025	ACS: household money income before taxes
Canada	0.305	2024	CIS: adjusted after-tax income
Mexico	0.420	2024	INEGI/ENIGH 2024 (CONEVAL method): current income per person

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table B19083: Gini Index of Income Inequality. Reference period: 2025.

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0134-01: Gini coefficients of adjusted market, total and after-tax income. Reference period: 2024.

Source: INEGI, Pobreza multidimensional 2024, tabulados: contexto territorial, Cuadro 2: coeficiente de Gini por entidad federativa, 2016–2024 (pm_ct_2024.xlsx). Reference period: 2024.

States, provinces and estados

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Income inequality (Gini coefficient), latest available, sorted high to low. 30 areas ranked by Income inequality (Gini coefficient). Highest: US · New York (0.519); lowest: CA · NB (0.275). Showing the 10 highest areas in each country. Caution: each country measures a different income (U.S. household income before taxes, Canada adjusted after-tax income, Mexico current income per person) and reference years differ, so the order across countries is indicative only; before-tax Ginis run higher than after-tax ones. Full data in the table below.Source: U.S., Canadian and Mexican official sources.

Show all 96 areas

Income inequality (Gini coefficient), latest available, sorted high to low. 96 areas ranked by Income inequality (Gini coefficient). Highest: US · New York (0.519); lowest: CA · PEI (0.268). All 96 areas. Caution: each country measures a different income (U.S. household income before taxes, Canada adjusted after-tax income, Mexico current income per person) and reference years differ, so the order across countries is indicative only; before-tax Ginis run higher than after-tax ones. Full data in the table below.Source: U.S., Canadian and Mexican official sources.


New York	United States	0.519
District of Columbia	United States	0.515
Connecticut	United States	0.495
Louisiana	United States	0.490
California	United States	0.489
Massachusetts	United States	0.486
Florida	United States	0.484
Arkansas	United States	0.483
New Mexico	United States	0.481
Alabama	United States	0.480
Illinois	United States	0.478
Mississippi	United States	0.478
Kentucky	United States	0.478
Texas	United States	0.478
Tennessee	United States	0.477
New Jersey	United States	0.476
West Virginia	United States	0.474
Rhode Island	United States	0.473
South Carolina	United States	0.473
Washington	United States	0.472
Pennsylvania	United States	0.472
Georgia	United States	0.472
Michigan	United States	0.470
Oklahoma	United States	0.469
North Carolina	United States	0.469
Virginia	United States	0.469
Nevada	United States	0.468
Missouri	United States	0.467
Arizona	United States	0.465
Wyoming	United States	0.465
Ohio	United States	0.465
Oregon	United States	0.461
Colorado	United States	0.460
Maryland	United States	0.459
Maine	United States	0.458
Montana	United States	0.457
Vermont	United States	0.457
Ciudad de México	Mexico	0.455
Kansas	United States	0.454
Nebraska	United States	0.454
Iowa	United States	0.453
Hawaii	United States	0.452
Indiana	United States	0.452
Minnesota	United States	0.451
Wisconsin	United States	0.449
South Dakota	United States	0.447
Nuevo León	Mexico	0.446
North Dakota	United States	0.444
Idaho	United States	0.443
Delaware	United States	0.443
Alaska	United States	0.442
New Hampshire	United States	0.442
Guerrero	Mexico	0.439
Utah	United States	0.435
Oaxaca	Mexico	0.426
Chiapas	Mexico	0.418
San Luis Potosí	Mexico	0.417
Querétaro	Mexico	0.408
Tabasco	Mexico	0.407
Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	0.405
Yucatán	Mexico	0.404
Puebla	Mexico	0.402
Campeche	Mexico	0.400
Zacatecas	Mexico	0.399
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	Mexico	0.394
Jalisco	Mexico	0.387
Quintana Roo	Mexico	0.384
Chihuahua	Mexico	0.383
Morelos	Mexico	0.383
Nayarit	Mexico	0.382
Colima	Mexico	0.381
Hidalgo	Mexico	0.379
Durango	Mexico	0.378
México	Mexico	0.377
Sonora	Mexico	0.376
Aguascalientes	Mexico	0.375
Guanajuato	Mexico	0.365
Baja California Sur	Mexico	0.364
Tamaulipas	Mexico	0.362
Sinaloa	Mexico	0.360
Coahuila de Zaragoza	Mexico	0.356
Tlaxcala	Mexico	0.352
Baja California	Mexico	0.345
Nunavut	Canada	0.323
Ontario	Canada	0.318
British Columbia	Canada	0.310
Alberta	Canada	0.308
Saskatchewan	Canada	0.297
Newfoundland and Labrador	Canada	0.288
Manitoba	Canada	0.285
Nova Scotia	Canada	0.277
Quebec	Canada	0.276
New Brunswick	Canada	0.275
Northwest Territories	Canada	0.273
Yukon	Canada	0.272
Prince Edward Island	Canada	0.268

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table B19083: Gini Index of Income Inequality. Reference period: 2025.

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0134-01: Gini coefficients of adjusted market, total and after-tax income. Reference period: 2024.

Source: INEGI, Pobreza multidimensional 2024, tabulados: contexto territorial, Cuadro 2: coeficiente de Gini por entidad federativa, 2016–2024 (pm_ct_2024.xlsx). Reference period: 2024.

How the countries differ

The three Gini coefficients measure different incomes, so they are not like-for-like. The U.S. figure (Census Bureau, American Community Survey) is for household money income before taxes and excludes non-cash benefits; Canada's (Statistics Canada, Canadian Income Survey) is for adjusted after-tax income, after taxes and transfers and adjusted for household size; Mexico's (INEGI's 2024 poverty measurement from the ENIGH household survey, using CONEVAL's methodology; CONEVAL's functions passed to INEGI in 2025) is for current income per person, which includes transfers and some non-monetary income.
Before-tax measures are higher than after-tax ones because taxes and transfers reduce inequality: Canada's own market-income Gini is about 0.44 and its after-tax Gini about 0.31. The U.S. pre-tax figure therefore overstates the gap with Canada's after-tax figure.
Reference years differ (United States 2025, Canada 2024, Mexico 2024). Survey estimates for small states, provinces and estados carry sampling error.
Compare areas within each country with confidence; across countries, treat differences as indicative only.

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Income inequality (Gini coefficient): United States, Canada and Mexico compared. Compiled by Quadranac from INEGI; Statistics Canada; U.S. Census Bureau. Data last updated 2026-11-10. https://quadranac.com/comparison/income-inequality/

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