Among the seven major developed nations, the official OECD Gini coefficients showed that France had the least income inequality, followed closely by Germany. The United States had the most. The differences in the Gini coefficients for these two countries and the United States implies that France redistributed about 9.9 percent more of its national income than the United States did and Germany 9.6 percent more. When the OECD number is corrected for the transfer payments missing from the US data submission, France’s extra redistribution was only 4.4 percent more and Germany’s 4.1 percent more.
