Median income per year (after tax)
What you should know about this indicator
- This data is expressed in constant international dollars to adjust for inflation and differences in living costs between countries. Read more in our article,What are international dollars?
- Income ispost-tax — measured after taxes have been paid and most government benefits have been received.
- Income has been equivalized – adjusted to account for the fact that people in the same household can share costs like rent and heating.
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What you should know about this indicator
- This data is expressed in constant international dollars to adjust for inflation and differences in living costs between countries. Read more in our article,What are international dollars?
- Income ispost-tax — measured after taxes have been paid and most government benefits have been received.
- Income has been equivalized – adjusted to account for the fact that people in the same household can share costs like rent and heating.
Sources and processing
This data is based on the following sources
Luxembourg Income Study – Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
The Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) is the largest available income database of harmonized microdata collected from over 50 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia spanning five decades.
Harmonized into a common framework, LIS datasets contain household- and person-level data on labor income, capital income, pensions, public social benefits (excl. pensions) and private transfers, as well as taxes and contributions, demography, employment, and expenditures.
Retrieved onDecember 23, 2025Retrieved fromCitationThis is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given inReuse This Work below.Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database,http://www.lisdatacenter.org (multiple countries; December 2025). Luxembourg: LIS.
Luxembourg Income Study – Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
The Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) is the largest available income database of harmonized microdata collected from over 50 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia spanning five decades.
Harmonized into a common framework, LIS datasets contain household- and person-level data on labor income, capital income, pensions, public social benefits (excl. pensions) and private transfers, as well as taxes and contributions, demography, employment, and expenditures.
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database,http://www.lisdatacenter.org (multiple countries; December 2025). Luxembourg: LIS.The Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) is the largest available income database of harmonized microdata collected from over 50 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia spanning five decades.
Harmonized into a common framework, LIS datasets contain household- and person-level data on labor income, capital income, pensions, public social benefits (excl. pensions) and private transfers, as well as taxes and contributions, demography, employment, and expenditures.
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database,http://www.lisdatacenter.org (multiple countries; December 2025). Luxembourg: LIS.How we process data at Our World in Data
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“Data Page: Median income per year (after tax)”, part of the following publication: Joe Hasell, Bertha Rohenkohl, Pablo Arriagada, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Max Roser (2022) - “Poverty”. Data adapted from Luxembourg Income Study. Retrieved fromhttps://archive.ourworldindata.org/20251224-105916/grapher/median-income-after-tax-lis.html [online resource] (archived on December 24, 2025).How to cite this data
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Luxembourg Income Study (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Median income per year (after tax)” [dataset]. Luxembourg Income Study, “Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)” [original data]. Retrieved February 16, 2026 fromhttps://archive.ourworldindata.org/20251224-105916/grapher/median-income-after-tax-lis.html (archived on December 24, 2025).