Editing Economy of Denmark (section)

===Income inequality===
{{Main|Income inequality in Denmark}}

[[Income inequality]] has traditionally been low in Denmark. According to OECD figures, in 2000 Denmark had the lowest [[Gini coefficient]] of all countries.<ref>{{in lang|da}} [https://www.fm.dk/publikationer/arbejdspapirer/2008/indkomstudvikling-og-fordeling-i-danmark-1983_2005 Indkomstudvikling og -fordeling i Danmark 1983–2005. Website of Ministry of Finance, Denmark. Dated January 2008, retrieved 1 December 2018.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181202033336/https://www.fm.dk/publikationer/arbejdspapirer/2008/indkomstudvikling-og-fordeling-i-danmark-1983_2005 |date=2 December 2018}}</ref> However, inequality has increased during the last decades. According to data from Statistics Denmark, the [[Gini coefficient]] for disposable income has increased from 22.1 in 1987 to 29.3 in 2017.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://statistikbanken.dk/IFOR41 |website=StatBank Denmark |title=Table IFOR41: Inequality indicators on equivalised disposable income by indicator and municipality. |access-date=28 November 2018}}</ref> The Danish Economic Council found in an analysis from 2016 that the increasing inequality in Denmark is due to several components: Pre-tax labour income is more unequally distributed today than before, capital income, which is generally less equally distributed than labour income, has increased as share of total income, and economic policy is less redistributive today, both because public income transfers play a smaller role today and because the tax system has become less progressive.<ref name=DECF16>{{cite web| url = https://dors.dk/vismandsrapporter/dansk-oekonomi-efteraar-2016| title = Danish Economic Council: Danish Economy Fall 2016. English Summary, p. 335f.| date = 4 October 2016}}</ref>

In international comparisons, Denmark has a relatively equal income distribution. According to the CIA World Factbook, Denmark had the twentieth-lowest Gini coefficient (29.0) of 158 countries in 2016.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/223rank.html#DA| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181128211129/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/223rank.html#DA| url-status = dead| archive-date = 28 November 2018| title = Country Comparison: Distribution of family income – Gini index. |website=The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency |access-date=28 November 2018}}</ref> According to data from [[Eurostat]], Denmark was the EU country with the seventh-lowest Gini coefficient in 2017. Slovakia, Slovenia, Czechia, Finland, Belgium and the Netherlands had a lower Gini coefficient for disposable income than Denmark.<ref name=eurostat>{{cite web| url = http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do| title = Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income – EU-SILC survey. Eurostat, last data update 20 November 2018. |access-date=28 November 2018}}</ref>