{"id": 1208116, "name": "Median income (per year, after tax, equivalized)", "unit": "international-$ in 2021 prices", "createdAt": "2026-03-16T11:06:07.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-05-01T09:44:31.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1963-2024", "datasetId": 7769, "shortUnit": "$", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "median__welfare_type_dhi__equivalence_scale_square_root__period_year", "catalogPath": "grapher/lis/2026-03-16/luxembourg_income_study/incomes#median__welfare_type_dhi__equivalence_scale_square_root__period_year", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1981}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 2024}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 23, "name": "Australia", "code": "AUS"}, {"id": 24, "name": "Austria", "code": "AUT"}, {"id": 4, "name": "Belgium", "code": "BEL"}, {"id": 37, "name": "Brazil", "code": "BRA"}, {"id": 39, "name": "Bulgaria", "code": "BGR"}, {"id": 44, "name": "Canada", "code": "CAN"}, {"id": 172, "name": "Chile", "code": "CHL"}, {"id": 171, "name": "China", "code": "CHN"}, {"id": 170, "name": "Colombia", "code": "COL"}, {"id": 143, "name": "Cote d'Ivoire", "code": "CIV"}, {"id": 162, "name": "Czechia", "code": "CZE"}, {"id": 161, "name": "Denmark", "code": "DNK"}, {"id": 160, "name": "Dominican Republic", "code": "DOM"}, {"id": 156, "name": "Estonia", "code": "EST"}, {"id": 155, "name": "Finland", "code": "FIN"}, {"id": 3, "name": "France", "code": "FRA"}, {"id": 152, "name": "Georgia", "code": "GEO"}, {"id": 6, "name": "Germany", "code": "DEU"}, {"id": 149, "name": "Greece", "code": "GRC"}, {"id": 148, "name": "Guatemala", "code": "GTM"}, {"id": 138, "name": "Hungary", "code": "HUN"}, {"id": 207, "name": "Iceland", "code": "ISL"}, {"id": 137, "name": "India", "code": "IND"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ireland", "code": "IRL"}, {"id": 133, "name": "Israel", "code": "ISR"}, {"id": 8, "name": "Italy", "code": "ITA"}, {"id": 14, "name": "Japan", "code": "JPN"}, {"id": 119, "name": "Lithuania", "code": "LTU"}, {"id": 210, "name": "Luxembourg", "code": "LUX"}, {"id": 115, "name": "Mali", "code": "MLI"}, {"id": 113, "name": "Mexico", "code": "MEX"}, {"id": 5, "name": "Netherlands", "code": "NLD"}, {"id": 102, "name": "Norway", "code": "NOR"}, {"id": 140, "name": "Palestine", "code": "PSE"}, {"id": 100, "name": "Panama", "code": "PAN"}, {"id": 98, "name": "Paraguay", "code": "PRY"}, {"id": 97, "name": "Peru", "code": "PER"}, {"id": 11, "name": "Poland", "code": "POL"}, {"id": 92, "name": "Romania", "code": "ROU"}, {"id": 12, "name": "Russia", "code": "RUS"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Serbia", "code": "SRB"}, {"id": 85, "name": "Slovakia", "code": "SVK"}, {"id": 83, "name": "Slovenia", "code": "SVN"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 127, "name": "South Korea", "code": "KOR"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 7, "name": "Switzerland", "code": "CHE"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}, {"id": 63, "name": "Uruguay", "code": "URY"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "Value of income per year below which 50% of the population live.", "type": "float", "grapherConfigIdETL": "019cf653-1b95-7f60-8036-bf4f04f37c46", "dataChecksum": "12421382094688120449", "metadataChecksum": "-4822319919885644658", "datasetName": "Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)", "updatePeriodDays": 90, "datasetVersion": "2026-03-16", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Median income (after tax)", "unit": "international-$ in 2021 prices", "shortUnit": "$", "tolerance": 5, "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "minor", "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Poverty", "Economic Inequality"]}, "descriptionKey": ["This data shows the median income per person \u2014 the level below which half the population falls. Unlike the mean, the median is not pulled up by the incomes of the richest, so it better reflects what a typical person has. You can switch to mean income using the chart controls. We discuss how incomes are distributed in more detail on our page on [Economic Inequality](https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality).", "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?](https://ourworldindata.org/international-dollars)", "Income is measured after taxes have been paid and most government benefits have been received.", "The data comes from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), which takes the original microdata from national household surveys and harmonizes it \u2014 reconstructing incomes using a common set of definitions across countries. This makes the data more comparable across countries than other sources, but at the cost of covering fewer countries.", "Income has been equivalized \u2013 adjusted to account for the household size and composition, to consider the fact that people in the same household can share costs like rent and heating. LIS uses the square root equivalence scale: household income is divided by the square root of the number of household members."], "origins": [{"id": 14176, "titleSnapshot": "Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) - Incomes across the distribution", "title": "Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)", "descriptionSnapshot": "Income distribution estimates by LIS.", "description": "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.\n\nHarmonized 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.", "producer": "Luxembourg Income Study", "citationFull": "Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database, http://www.lisdatacenter.org (multiple countries; March 2026). Luxembourg: LIS.", "attributionShort": "LIS", "urlMain": "https://www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/lis-database/", "dateAccessed": "2026-03-16", "datePublished": "2026-03-13", "license": {"url": "https://www.lisdatacenter.org/about-lis/terms-of-use/", "name": "LIS Privacy Policy"}}]}