Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2020

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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2020: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).

Positionderived	Country	Gini index of employees' monthly earnings (0 = all paid the same, 1 = one employee earns everything)	ILO observation status
1	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	0.605	—
2	BurundiBDIEastern Africa	0.566	—
=3	Costa RicaCRICentral America	0.520	—
=3	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	0.520	—
5	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	0.493	—
6	BrazilBRASouth America	0.461	—
7	Puerto RicoPRICaribbean	0.456	—
8	MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.453	—
9	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	0.450	—
10	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	0.448	Break in series
11	HondurasHNDCentral America	0.447	Break in series
12	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	0.441	Break in series
13	ChileCHLSouth America	0.440	—
14	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	0.419	—
15	PanamaPANCentral America	0.418	Break in series
16	PeruPERSouth America	0.410	Break in series
17	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean	0.408	Break in series
18	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	0.396	—
19	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	0.393	Break in series
20	ArgentinaARGSouth America	0.392	—
21	BulgariaBGREastern Europe	0.391	—
22	EcuadorECUSouth America	0.384	Break in series
23	ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	0.375	—
24	PalestinePSEWestern Asia	0.374	—
25	GermanyDEUWestern Europe	0.371	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.345. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +7 / −25countries joined / left
• 65values changed, of 69 in both
• 34 · 31rose · fell
• 4unchanged

+ Afghanistan+ Burundi+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Chile+ United Kingdom+ Puerto Rico+ Tanzania− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bahamas− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire− Cook Islands− Colombia− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Guatemala− Kenya− Kiribati− Lebanon− Lesotho− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Mauritania− Niger− Nigeria− Paraguay− Senegal− El Salvador− Togo− Tunisia− Uganda

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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