# EU Wealth Inequality — Source Catalog

**Source ID:** DS-00020
**Record Created:** 2026-04-23
**Cataloger:** Sven / PAI

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## Sources

### ECB Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS)
- **URL:** https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/ecb_surveys/hfcs/html/index.en.html
- **Statistical Tables PDF:** https://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/pdf/research/hfcn/HFCS_Statistical_Tables_Wave_2021_July2023.pdf
- **Auth:** None
- **Coverage:** Harmonized Eurozone-wide wealth survey; country-level Gini, percentile shares
- **Update frequency:** Triennial (Wave 4 = 2021)

### ECB Distributional Wealth Accounts (DWA)
- **URL:** https://data.ecb.europa.eu/data/data-categories/macroeconomic-and-sectoral-statistics/sector-accounts/distributional-wealth-accounts
- **Auth:** None
- **Coverage:** Top-5% and top-10% shares by country; quarterly
- **Update frequency:** Quarterly

### Eurofound — Wealth Inequality Reports (2025)
- **Gini by country:** https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/surveys-and-data/data-catalogue/net-wealth-inequality-eu-member-states-2010-and-2021-gini-index-
- **Wealth shares:** https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/surveys-and-data/data-catalogue/net-wealth-inequality-and-wealth-share-by-wealth-percentile-member-states-2021
- **Full report:** https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/publications/all/a-picture-of-wealth-inequality-across-eu-member-states
- **Auth:** None
- **Coverage:** Trend analysis 2010–2021; country visualizations; wealth shares by percentile
- **Update frequency:** Periodic reports

### World Inequality Database (WID)
- **URL:** https://wid.world/
- **Auth:** None
- **Coverage:** Top-1% wealth shares per country (where available); national-accounts basis
- **Update frequency:** Irregular

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## Dataset

`Data/EU-Wealth-Inequality/EU-Wealth-Inequality.md`

## Connection to DE-Plan

CHALLENGE 4 (structural wealth precarity — Germany ranks worst in EU)