Two new datasets with source catalogs (DS-00019, DS-00020): - DE-Wealth-Distribution: Wealth Gini 72.4% (PHF 2023), top shares, inheritance - EU-Wealth-Inequality: Cross-country Gini comparison (50.8–72.6) Updated README.md, Data/README.md, QUICK_REFERENCE.md to document all 24 datasets (7 US + 16 DE + 1 EU), 20 source catalogs, and DE-Plan integration. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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EU Wealth Inequality — Source Catalog
Source ID: DS-00020 Record Created: 2026-04-23 Cataloger: Sven / PAI
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
Dataset
Data/EU-Wealth-Inequality/EU-Wealth-Inequality.md
Connection to DE-Plan
CHALLENGE 4 (structural wealth precarity — Germany ranks worst in EU)