Household income per person, adjusted for living costs: NZ and other countries: data and downloads

Household income per person, adjusted for living costs: NZ and other countries: data and downloads: definitions

Annual household gross adjusted disposable income per person in current PPP US dollars, from OECD national accounts. It includes households and non-profit institutions serving households and social transfers in kind, such as publicly provided health and education. It differs from survey-based median household income: it divides national-accounts income by population rather than finding the middle household or adjusting for household size.

Household income per person, adjusted for living costs: NZ and other countries: data and downloads: comparison limits

These affect how the figures can be compared.

• This is an average per person, not the income of a typical household; income distribution and household size matter.
• PPP adjusts for price levels across countries, not exchange rates; these are purchasing-power US dollars, not dollars exchanged in a bank.
• Current prices and current PPPs allow country comparisons for a given year; changes over time also reflect inflation and changing PPPs, not just real income growth.
• Adjusted disposable income includes social transfers in kind, not just cash available to spend. Gross income does not deduct consumption of fixed capital.
• Latest years differ between countries; some countries report financial years. Canada has OECD-estimated values, marked on the observations.
• The OECD total is not present in this national-accounts flow. The separate real-income index excludes social transfers in kind and has no New Zealand series.