Data for 2022
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2022
2022, 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, 2022 covers 86 countries. Zimbabwe is highest, at 0.684; Egypt is lowest, at 0.217. The middle country reads 0.357. Against 2021, 66 values changed (24 up, 42 down), 17 countries joined, 11 left.
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings · Data for 2022
HighestZimbabwe
0.684
LowestEgypt
0.217Shaded 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, 2022, 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 86 countries · select a heading to sort
| derived | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa | 0.684 | — |
| 2 |  BotswanaBWASouthern Africa | 0.613 | — |
| 3 |  SudanSDNNorthern Africa | 0.592 | Break in series |
| 4 |  MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa | 0.548 | — |
| 5 |  ZambiaZMBEastern Africa | 0.539 | — |
| 6 |  GhanaGHAWestern Africa | 0.533 | — |
| 7 |  RwandaRWAEastern Africa | 0.515 | — |
| 8 |  NigerNERWestern Africa | 0.504 | — |
| 9 |  ChadTCDMiddle Africa | 0.501 | — |
| 10 |  Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa | 0.495 | — |
| =11 |  AngolaAGOMiddle Africa | 0.487 | — |
| =11 |  TogoTGOWestern Africa | 0.487 | — |
| 13 |  MaliMLIWestern Africa | 0.482 | — |
| 14 |  BeninBENWestern Africa | 0.481 | — |
| 15 |  SenegalSENWestern Africa | 0.473 | — |
| 16 |  Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa | 0.448 | — |
| 17 |  IndiaINDSouthern Asia | 0.441 | — |
| 18 |  Costa RicaCRICentral America | 0.440 | — |
| 19 |  SomaliaSOMEastern Africa | 0.439 | — |
| 20 |  BrazilBRASouth America | 0.438 | — |
| 21 |  GuatemalaGTMCentral America | 0.429 | Break in series |
| 22 |  Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa | 0.419 | — |
| 23 |  IrelandIRLNorthern Europe | 0.410 | — |
| =24 |  IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia | 0.409 | — |
| =24 |  PanamaPANCentral America | 0.409 | — |
| 26 |  ArgentinaARGSouth America | 0.403 | — |
| 27 |  BulgariaBGREastern Europe | 0.400 | — |
| 28 |  SamoaWSMPolynesia | 0.397 | Break in series |
| 29 |  PalestinePSEWestern Asia | 0.391 | — |
| 30 |  HondurasHNDCentral America | 0.389 | — |
| 31 |  PeruPERSouth America | 0.385 | Break in series |
| 32 |  ColombiaCOLSouth America | 0.382 | Break in series |
| 33 |  Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia | 0.380 | — |
| 34 |  ChileCHLSouth America | 0.378 | — |
| =35 |  EcuadorECUSouth America | 0.372 | — |
| =35 |  UruguayURYSouth America | 0.372 | — |
| =37 |  CyprusCYPWestern Asia | 0.366 | — |
| =37 |  LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe | 0.366 | — |
| 39 |  Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean | 0.364 | — |
| 40 |  LatviaLVANorthern Europe | 0.359 | — |
| 41 |  EstoniaESTNorthern Europe | 0.358 | — |
| =42 |  GermanyDEUWestern Europe | 0.357 | — |
| =42 |  United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe | 0.357 | — |
| =42 |  United StatesUSANorthern America | 0.357 | — |
| 45 |  SpainESPSouthern Europe | 0.354 | — |
| 46 |  LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe | 0.350 | — |
| 47 |  SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe | 0.349 | — |
| 48 |  ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia | 0.346 | — |
| 49 |  LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia | 0.345 | Break in series |
| 50 |  NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe | 0.336 | — |
| 51 |  MauritiusMUSEastern Africa | 0.333 | — |
| 52 |  ItalyITASouthern Europe | 0.332 | — |
| 53 |  CanadaCANNorthern America | 0.331 | — |
| 54 |  MexicoMEXCentral America | 0.330 | — |
| 55 |  ParaguayPRYSouth America | 0.326 | — |
| 56 |  BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia | 0.324 | — |
| 57 |  PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia | 0.323 | — |
| 58 |  AustriaAUTWestern Europe | 0.318 | — |
| 59 |  GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia | 0.311 | — |
| 60 |  BhutanBTNSouthern Asia | 0.308 | — |
| =61 |  ArmeniaARMWestern Asia | 0.307 | — |
| =61 |  BoliviaBOLSouth America | 0.307 | — |
| 63 |  NorwayNORNorthern Europe | 0.305 | — |
| 64 |  El SalvadorSLVCentral America | 0.297 | — |
| 65 |  TürkiyeTURWestern Asia | 0.295 | — |
| =66 |  DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe | 0.292 | — |
| =66 |  MongoliaMNGEastern Asia | 0.292 | — |
| 68 |  FranceFRAWestern Europe | 0.278 | — |
| 69 |  BelgiumBELWestern Europe | 0.276 | — |
| 70 |  SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe | 0.274 | — |
| 71 |  CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe | 0.272 | — |
| 72 |  SwedenSWENorthern Europe | 0.270 | — |
| 73 |  PolandPOLEastern Europe | 0.269 | — |
| 74 |  MoldovaMDAEastern Europe | 0.260 | — |
| =75 |  FinlandFINNorthern Europe | 0.259 | — |
| =75 |  SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe | 0.259 | — |
| 77 |  CzechiaCZEEastern Europe | 0.256 | — |
| 78 |  GreeceGRCSouthern Europe | 0.248 | — |
| 79 |  RomaniaROUEastern Europe | 0.247 | — |
| 80 |  HungaryHUNEastern Europe | 0.245 | — |
| 81 |  PortugalPRTSouthern Europe | 0.240 | — |
| 82 |  Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe | 0.235 | Break in series |
| 83 |  SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe | 0.233 | — |
| 84 |  JordanJORWestern Asia | 0.228 | — |
| 85 |  VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia | 0.225 | — |
| 86 | EgyptEGYNorthern Africa | 0.217 | — |
02In 2022
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline.
Highest
- 1Zimbabwe0.684
- 2Botswana0.613
- 3Sudan0.592
- 4Mozambique0.548
- 5Zambia0.539
Lowest
- 86Egypt0.217
- 85Vietnam0.225
- 84Jordan0.228
- 83Slovakia0.233
- 82Bosnia and Herzegovina0.235
A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.357. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
032021 → 2022
Since 2021
- +17 / −11countries joined / left
- 66values changed, of 69 in both
- 24 · 42rose · fell
- 3unchanged
Rose most
- Colombia0.345 → 0.382+0.037
- Mongolia0.263 → 0.292+0.029
- Botswana0.589 → 0.613+0.024
- Luxembourg0.330 → 0.350+0.020
- Türkiye0.275 → 0.295+0.020
Fell most
- Mauritius0.396 → 0.333−0.063
- Honduras0.430 → 0.389−0.041
- Costa Rica0.472 → 0.440−0.032
- Vietnam0.251 → 0.225−0.026
- Georgia0.334 → 0.311−0.023
+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bangladesh+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Ghana+ Guinea-Bissau+ Laos+ Mali+ Mozambique+ Niger+ Sudan+ Senegal+ Somalia+ Chad+ Togo+ Uruguay+ Samoa
− Australia
− Comoros
− Ethiopia
− Guyana
− Cambodia
− Malta
− Pakistan
− Eswatini
− Timor-Leste
− Tonga
− Uganda04Caveats
Read before you use
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 2022.
77 distinct values among 86
Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 0.357. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
79 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) (2022). Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/earnings-gini/2022
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