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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2016

2016, 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, 2016 covers 80 countries. Liberia is highest, at 0.739; Italy is lowest, at 0.220. The middle country reads 0.352. Against 2015, 65 values changed (24 up, 41 down), 12 countries joined, 7 left.

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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings · Data for 2016

HighestLiberia

0.739

LowestItaly

0.220

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, 2016, 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 80 countries · select a heading to sort

Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2016: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1LiberiaLBRWestern Africa0.739—
2NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa0.633—
3DR CongoCODMiddle Africa0.601—
4KenyaKENEastern Africa0.569—
5EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.544—
6MaliMLIWestern Africa0.464—
7Costa RicaCRICentral America0.463—
8MauritiusMUSEastern Africa0.439—
9PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.438—
10HondurasHNDCentral America0.430—
11BrazilBRASouth America0.428—
12Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia0.423—
=13ChileCHLSouth America0.418—
=13IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia0.418—
15GuatemalaGTMCentral America0.404—
=16IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.403—
=16PeruPERSouth America0.403—
=18BulgariaBGREastern Europe0.392—
=18Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean0.392—
=20Saint LuciaLCACaribbean0.391—
=20United StatesUSANorthern America0.391—
22United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.383—
=23AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.380—
=23CyprusCYPWestern Asia0.380—
25SurinameSURSouth America0.379—

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Liberia0.739
  2. 2Namibia0.633
  3. 3DR Congo0.601
  4. 4Kenya0.569
  5. 5Eswatini0.544

Lowest

  1. 80Italy0.220
  2. 79Slovakia0.223
  3. 78Greece0.240
  4. 77Belgium0.248
  5. 76Denmark0.250

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.352. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

  • +12 / −7countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 68 in both
  • 24 · 41rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Barbados+ DR Congo+ Fiji+ Kenya+ Liberia+ Saint Lucia+ Maldives+ Namibia+ Suriname+ Eswatini+ Timor-Leste+ Venezuela− Cabo Verde− Ghana− Madagascar− Myanmar− Puerto Rico− Togo− South Africa

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 2016.

  • 65 distinct values among 80

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 4 countries share 0.359. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 76 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) (2016). Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/earnings-gini/2016

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