Disposable household and per capita income

A region's mean or median net household income can be used as an indicator of the purchasing power or material well-being of its residents.

The list below represents a national accounts-derived indicator for a country or territory's gross household disposable income per capita (including social transfers in kind).

'[1] This indicator also takes account of social transfers in kind 'such as health or education provided for free or at reduced prices by governments and not-for-profit organisations.

'[1] The data shown below is published by the OECD and is presented in purchasing power parity (PPP) in order to adjust for price differences between countries.

[4][5] The median equivalised disposable income for individual countries corrected for purchasing power parity (PPP) for 2021 in United States dollars is shown in below table.

Annual median equivalised disposable income per person, by OECD country. [ 3 ]