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In recent years, the active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays have been greatly required. A voltage compensation pixel circuit based on an amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide thin-film transistor is presented for AMOLED displays. The circuit is composed of five transistors–two capacitors (5<i>T</i>2C) in combination with an <i>OLED</i>. In the circuit, the threshold voltages of both the transistor and the <i>OLED</i> are extracted simultaneously in the threshold voltage extraction stage, and the mobility-related discharge voltage is generated in the data input stage. The circuit not only can compensate the electrical characteristics variation, i.e., the threshold voltage variation and mobility variation, but also can compensate the <i>OLED</i> degradation. Furthermore, the circuit can prevent the <i>OLED</i> flicker, and can achieve the wide data voltage range. The circuit simulation results show that the <i>OLED</i> current error rates (CERs) are lower than 3.89% when the transistor’s threshold voltage variation is ±0.5V, lower than 3.49% when the mobility variation is ±30%.