Overview
- INDEC reported a Gini coefficient of 0.424 for Q2 2025, down from 0.436 a year earlier yet still higher than Q2 2023 (0.417) and Q2 2022 (0.414).
- The top 10% captured 31.5% of total income and earned about 18 times the bottom 10%, an improvement from the wider gap recorded in 2024.
- Average per-capita income was $537,024 with a median of $392,000, and total reported income across 31 urban areas rose 87% year over year to $16,061,759 million.
- Labor income made up 78.4% of household receipts versus 21.6% from non-labor sources, which accounted for 71.4% in the poorest decile and 11.7% in the richest.
- Labor precariousness increased with 37.7% of salaried workers informal and overall informality at 43.2%, and women’s average earnings were about 27% below men’s.