Cyprus ranks fifth among the European Union's 27 member states with the highest income inequality, according to 2025 data from the EU statistics office Eurostat, as reported by the Greek Cypriot newspaper Haravgi.
The paper said the Gini coefficient, the standard measure of how unevenly income is distributed, climbed in Cyprus from 30.1 to 31.2 points, pointing to a widening gap between income groups.
According to Haravgi, the comparison was made against 2019 figures. Over the same period, the EU average moved in the opposite direction, edging down from 29.4 to 29.2 points.
The figures leave Cyprus clearly above the EU average, with inequality rising on the island even as the bloc as a whole recorded a slight improvement.
The Gini coefficient is widely used to gauge income distribution within a society; a higher value indicates greater inequality.
