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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2013

2013, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

This measures how unequally pay is spread among a country’s employees, on a scale from 0, where every employee earns the same, to 1, where one employee earns everything. It is the wage part of inequality, computed by the International Labour Organization from earnings surveys.

Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2013 covers 77 countries. Namibia is highest, at 0.693; Bangladesh is lowest, at 0.209. The middle country reads 0.357. Against 2012, 62 values changed (28 up, 34 down), 10 countries joined, 10 left.

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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings · Data for 2013

HighestNamibia

0.693

LowestBangladesh

0.209

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2013, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 77 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2013: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa0.693—
2South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa0.660—
3MaliMLIWestern Africa0.655Break in series
4Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa0.623—
5MalawiMWIEastern Africa0.598Break in series
6GhanaGHAWestern Africa0.585Break in series
7Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia0.532Break in series
=8JamaicaJAMCaribbean0.511—
=8NigeriaNGAWestern Africa0.511—
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa0.478—
11IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia0.458Break in series
12MauritiusMUSEastern Africa0.447—
13Costa RicaCRICentral America0.446—
14ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia0.442—
15HondurasHNDCentral America0.434—
16ChileCHLSouth America0.432—
17Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean0.431—
18PanamaPANCentral America0.419—
19BrazilBRASouth America0.410—
20PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.408Break in series
=21IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.403—
=21PeruPERSouth America0.403—
=23GuatemalaGTMCentral America0.400Break in series
=23PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia0.400—
25United StatesUSANorthern America0.395—

02In 2013

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Namibia0.693
  2. 2South Africa0.660
  3. 3Mali0.655
  4. 4Côte d’Ivoire0.623
  5. 5Malawi0.598

Lowest

  1. 77Bangladesh0.209
  2. 76Italy0.227
  3. 75Slovakia0.234
  4. 74Denmark0.242
  5. 73Belgium0.256

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.357. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

  • +10 / −10countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 67 in both
  • 28 · 34rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bangladesh+ Ethiopia+ Ghana+ Sri Lanka+ Mali+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ Serbia+ Thailand+ Timor-Leste− DR Congo− Gambia− India− Madagascar− Niger− Nicaragua− Tanzania− Uganda− Venezuela− Samoa

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2013.

  • 65 distinct values among 77

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 0.288. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 69 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

  • Some readings carry a flag

    ILO marks readings it considers estimates or provisional. The flags in this file: Break in series.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (2013). Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/earnings-gini/2013

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