Datasets
Inequality Gini Anchors
SingStat and MOF anchors for resident household Gini before and after taxes and transfers, employment-income versus market-income measures, and wealth Gini — with denominators and equivalence scaling preserved.
Inequality and Gini Coefficient Anchors
Narrative: inequality and social mobility. Population = resident households unless stated. Non-resident workers are out of scope.
Measure definition
| Dimension | Official framing |
|---|---|
| Usual headline Gini | Household employment income per household member |
| Before vs after | Before / after government taxes and transfers |
| From 2025 additional track | Household market income (employment + investment, rent, pensions, annuities, regular insurance) |
| Scale | 0 = equality; 1 = one household holds all income |
Source: SingStat Our Data Explained, accessed 8 Aug 2026.
Employment-income Gini (resident households)
| Year | Before taxes & transfers | After taxes & transfers |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.433 | 0.371 |
| 2024 | 0.435 | 0.364 (series low since 2000) |
| 2025 | — | 0.359 (MOF Feb 2026 update) |
Sources: SingStat KHIT 2024; MOF occasional paper, accessed 8 Aug 2026.
Market-income Gini after transfers (MOF)
| Year | After taxes & transfers |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 0.437 |
| 2025 | 0.379 |
Source: MOF occasional paper, accessed 8 Aug 2026.
Transfers and wealth (selected)
| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Avg government transfers per household member (2024) | S$7,825 | Resident households; up from S$6,418 in 2023 |
| 1- and 2-room HDB transfers per member (2024) | S$16,805 | Highest dwelling band in KHIT |
| Wealth Gini (2023 survey; published 2025–26) | About 0.55 | MOF/CNA; MOF cautions understatement |
| Wealth composition (all resident households, 2023) | Property 56%; CPF 22%; other financial 22% | Same release |
Retrieval guardrails
| Mistake | Correction |
|---|---|
| Quote only before-transfers Gini rising 2023→2024 | After-transfers fell to series low 0.364 |
| Compare Singapore Gini to OECD without scale notes | Equivalence scales and income definitions differ |
| Treat wealth Gini as income Gini | Different concept and year |
Record details
- Also known as
- ["Gini before after transfers","wealth Gini Singapore","household employment income Gini"]
- Jurisdiction
- SG
- What each row represents
- one before/after income Gini or wealth Gini with measure definition
- Update cadence
- after DOS Key Household Income Trends or wealth releases
- Source format
- markdown
Dates describe this record’s own period and applicability. A verification date does not mean a rule is currently in force.
Sources
- SingStat — Key Household Income Trends 2024 Accessed 2026-08-10
- SingStat — Our Data Explained: Household Income Accessed 2026-08-08
- MOF — Occasional Paper on Income Growth, Inequality, and Mobility Trends Accessed 2026-08-08
- CNA — Wealth inequality reporting on MOF release (Feb 2026) Accessed 2026-08-08
Collection as of 2026-10-07 · An expanding collection. Published counts show available knowledge, not complete coverage of Singapore.