Income, consumption, wealth of households: key figures; National Accounts
| Characteristics of households | Periods | Total amount Income Gross operating surplus and mixed income (million euros) | Total amount Income Gross mixed income (million euros) | Total amount Income Compensation of employees (million euros) | Total amount Income Gross disposable income (million euros) | Total amount Income Social transfers in kind (million euros) | Total amount Income Gross adjusted disposable income (million euros) | Average amount Income Gross operating surplus and mixed income (1,000 euro) | Average amount Income Gross mixed income (1,000 euro) | Average amount Income Compensation of employees (1,000 euro) | Average amount Income Gross disposable income (1,000 euro) | Average amount Income Social transfers in kind (1,000 euro) | Average amount Income Gross adjusted disposable income (1,000 euro) | Standardised amount Income Gross operating surplus and mixed income (1,000 euro) | Standardised amount Income Gross mixed income (1,000 euro) | Standardised amount Income Compensation of employees (1,000 euro) | Standardised amount Income Gross disposable income (1,000 euro) | Standardised amount Income Social transfers in kind (1,000 euro) | Standardised amount Income Gross adjusted disposable income (1,000 euro) |
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| Disposable income: 1st 20%-group | 2021* | 645 | 3,415 | 7,521 | 24,381 | 31,483 | 55,864 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 4.5 | 14.6 | 18.8 | 33.4 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 3.6 | 11.8 | 15.2 | 26.9 |
| Disposable income: 2nd 20%-group | 2021* | 2,817 | 4,373 | 30,235 | 51,579 | 35,306 | 86,885 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 18.1 | 30.9 | 21.1 | 52.0 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 13.1 | 22.3 | 15.2 | 37.5 |
| Disposable income: 3rd 20%-group | 2021* | 5,855 | 7,278 | 72,290 | 78,115 | 33,060 | 111,175 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 43.3 | 46.8 | 19.8 | 66.6 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 28.0 | 30.3 | 12.8 | 43.1 |
| Disposable income: 4th 20%-group | 2021* | 7,460 | 12,717 | 118,185 | 105,073 | 31,047 | 136,120 | 4.5 | 7.6 | 70.8 | 62.9 | 18.6 | 81.5 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 43.8 | 38.9 | 11.5 | 50.4 |
| Disposable income: 5th 20%-group | 2021* | 8,078 | 58,865 | 180,326 | 180,294 | 27,670 | 207,964 | 4.8 | 35.2 | 108.0 | 107.9 | 16.6 | 124.5 | 3.0 | 21.8 | 66.6 | 66.6 | 10.2 | 76.9 |
| Source of income: mixed income | 2021* | 2,746 | 61,188 | 15,089 | 76,602 | 15,129 | 91,731 | 3.3 | 73.7 | 18.2 | 92.3 | 18.2 | 110.5 | 2.1 | 45.8 | 11.3 | 57.3 | 11.3 | 68.6 |
| Source of income: compensation of employ | 2021* | 12,391 | 20,534 | 386,346 | 267,011 | 75,655 | 342,666 | 2.9 | 4.8 | 91.1 | 62.9 | 17.8 | 80.8 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 55.6 | 38.4 | 10.9 | 49.3 |
| Source of income: old age benefits | 2021* | 8,811 | 2,619 | 3,132 | 71,833 | 50,635 | 122,468 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 33.3 | 23.5 | 56.7 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 27.0 | 19.0 | 46.0 |
| Source of income: other | 2021* | 907 | 2,307 | 3,990 | 23,996 | 17,147 | 41,143 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 3.6 | 21.4 | 15.3 | 36.7 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 2.8 | 16.8 | 12.0 | 28.7 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||||||||||||||||
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This table describes the distribution of income, consumption, and wealth components of the sector households in the national accounts over different household groups. Households are identified by main source of income, living situation, household composition, age classes of the head of the household, income class by 20% groups, and net worth class by 20% groups.
Data available from: 2015.
Status of the figures:
All data are provisional.
Changes as of October 19th 2023:
The figures of 2015-2020 are revised. Results for 2021 are added to the table.
When will new figures be published?
New figures will be released in October 2024.
Description topics
- Total amount
- Income
- Receipts from production, wages, social transfers, and property income. Compensation of employees are the wages received for labour, including the social contributions paid for by the employers. Gross operating surplus, gross mixed income and gross disposable income are balancing items. Social transfers in kind are also included, together with disposable income, this leads to the balancing item adjusted disposable income.
- Gross operating surplus and mixed income
- The surplus that remains after compensation of employees and taxes less subsidies on production and imports have been subtracted from the sum of value added at basic prices. For the self-employed (who are part of the sector households) the surplus is called mixed income, because it is partly a reward for their entrepreneurship compensation of labour.
The operating surplus of households equals housing services produced for own consumption by owner-occupiers.
In the system of national accounts gross means that consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) has not been subtracted. When it has, net is used.
- Gross mixed income
- Mixed income is for households mainly equal to the income earned by sole proprietors and other entrepreneurs personally liable for all gains and losses from their activities. The income earned has both an element of wage income as well as profit since the entrepreneur is both rewarded for the provided labour input as well as the undertaken risks. Included in mixed income are rentals received from letting real estate and income earned from black and illegal activities.
In the system of national accounts gross means that consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) has not been subtracted. When it has, net is used.
- Compensation of employees
- The compensation of employees is the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable by an employer to an employee in return for work done by the latter during an accounting period. The compensation of employees is equal to the sum of wages and salaries and employers' social contributions.
- Gross disposable income
- The sum of the gross disposable incomes of the institutional sectors. Gross national disposable income equals gross national income (at market prices) minus current transfers (current taxes on income, wealth et cetera, social contributions, social benefits and other current transfers) paid to non-resident units, plus current transfers received by resident units from the rest of the world. Because disposable national income is not a production concept but an income concept, it is usually expressed in net terms, i.e. after deduction of depreciation (consumption of fixed capital).
- Social transfers in kind
- Social transfers in kind consist of individual goods and services provided for free or at prices that are not economically significant to individual households by government units and NPISHs, whether purchased on the market or produced as non-market output by government units or NPISHs. They are financed out of taxation, other government income or social security contributions, or out of donations and property income in the case of NPISHs.
- Gross adjusted disposable income
- Adjusted disposable income is equal to disposable income of households including any income transfers in kind provided to households free of charge by general government or NPISH. This variable facilitates comparisons over time and across countries when there are differences or changes in economic and social conditions.
In the system of national accounts gross means that consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) has not been subtracted. When it has, net is used.
- Average amount
- Amount per household.
- Income
- Receipts from production, wages, social transfers, and property income. Compensation of employees are the wages received for labour, including the social contributions paid for by the employers. Gross operating surplus, gross mixed income and gross disposable income are balancing items. Social transfers in kind are also included, together with disposable income, this leads to the balancing item adjusted disposable income.
- Gross operating surplus and mixed income
- The surplus that remains after compensation of employees and taxes less subsidies on production and imports have been subtracted from the sum of value added at basic prices. For the self-employed (who are part of the sector households) the surplus is called mixed income, because it is partly a reward for their entrepreneurship compensation of labour.
The operating surplus of households equals housing services produced for own consumption by owner-occupiers.
In the system of national accounts gross means that consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) has not been subtracted. When it has, net is used.
- Gross mixed income
- Mixed income is for households mainly equal to the income earned by sole proprietors and other entrepreneurs personally liable for all gains and losses from their activities. The income earned has both an element of wage income as well as profit since the entrepreneur is both rewarded for the provided labour input as well as the undertaken risks. Included in mixed income are rentals received from letting real estate and income earned from black and illegal activities.
In the system of national accounts gross means that consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) has not been subtracted. When it has, net is used.
- Compensation of employees
- The compensation of employees is the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable by an employer to an employee in return for work done by the latter during an accounting period. The compensation of employees is equal to the sum of wages and salaries and employers' social contributions.
- Gross disposable income
- The sum of the gross disposable incomes of the institutional sectors. Gross national disposable income equals gross national income (at market prices) minus current transfers (current taxes on income, wealth et cetera, social contributions, social benefits and other current transfers) paid to non-resident units, plus current transfers received by resident units from the rest of the world. Because disposable national income is not a production concept but an income concept, it is usually expressed in net terms, i.e. after deduction of depreciation (consumption of fixed capital).
- Social transfers in kind
- Social transfers in kind consist of individual goods and services provided for free or at prices that are not economically significant to individual households by government units and NPISHs, whether purchased on the market or produced as non-market output by government units or NPISHs. They are financed out of taxation, other government income or social security contributions, or out of donations and property income in the case of NPISHs.
- Gross adjusted disposable income
- Adjusted disposable income is equal to disposable income of households including any income transfers in kind provided to households free of charge by general government or NPISH. This variable facilitates comparisons over time and across countries when there are differences or changes in economic and social conditions.
In the system of national accounts gross means that consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) has not been subtracted. When it has, net is used.
- Standardised amount
- Amount per household converted to a single-person household.
- Income
- Receipts from production, wages, social transfers, and property income. Compensation of employees are the wages received for labour, including the social contributions paid for by the employers. Gross operating surplus, gross mixed income and gross disposable income are balancing items. Social transfers in kind are also included, together with disposable income, this leads to the balancing item adjusted disposable income.
- Gross operating surplus and mixed income
- The surplus that remains after compensation of employees and taxes less subsidies on production and imports have been subtracted from the sum of value added at basic prices. For the self-employed (who are part of the sector households) the surplus is called mixed income, because it is partly a reward for their entrepreneurship compensation of labour.
The operating surplus of households equals housing services produced for own consumption by owner-occupiers.
In the system of national accounts gross means that consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) has not been subtracted. When it has, net is used.
- Gross mixed income
- Mixed income is for households mainly equal to the income earned by sole proprietors and other entrepreneurs personally liable for all gains and losses from their activities. The income earned has both an element of wage income as well as profit since the entrepreneur is both rewarded for the provided labour input as well as the undertaken risks. Included in mixed income are rentals received from letting real estate and income earned from black and illegal activities.
In the system of national accounts gross means that consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) has not been subtracted. When it has, net is used.
- Compensation of employees
- The compensation of employees is the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable by an employer to an employee in return for work done by the latter during an accounting period. The compensation of employees is equal to the sum of wages and salaries and employers' social contributions.
- Gross disposable income
- The sum of the gross disposable incomes of the institutional sectors. Gross national disposable income equals gross national income (at market prices) minus current transfers (current taxes on income, wealth et cetera, social contributions, social benefits and other current transfers) paid to non-resident units, plus current transfers received by resident units from the rest of the world. Because disposable national income is not a production concept but an income concept, it is usually expressed in net terms, i.e. after deduction of depreciation (consumption of fixed capital).
- Social transfers in kind
- Social transfers in kind consist of individual goods and services provided for free or at prices that are not economically significant to individual households by government units and NPISHs, whether purchased on the market or produced as non-market output by government units or NPISHs. They are financed out of taxation, other government income or social security contributions, or out of donations and property income in the case of NPISHs.
- Gross adjusted disposable income
- Adjusted disposable income is equal to disposable income of households including any income transfers in kind provided to households free of charge by general government or NPISH. This variable facilitates comparisons over time and across countries when there are differences or changes in economic and social conditions.
In the system of national accounts gross means that consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) has not been subtracted. When it has, net is used.