In four decades, the average after-tax income of Canadians in the lowest decile rose from 9,900 to 12,700 Canadian dollars, an increase of around 28 percent. The income of those in the highest decile rose by more than 47 percent between 1980 and 2021, from 152,600 to 224,800 Canadian dollars. The gap in average income between the two deciles has therefore widened from approximately 142,700 dollars in 1980 to over 212,000 dollars in 2021.
Average after-tax income of lowest and highest income deciles in Canada from 1980 to 2021
(in Canadian dollars)
All the units of the population, whether economic families or persons not in an economic family, are ranked from lowest to highest by the value of their income of a specified income concept. Then, the ranked population is divided into ten groups of equal numbers of units, called deciles.
Economic families and persons not in an economic family.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 1980 to 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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