Data for 2024
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2024
2024, 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, 2024 covers 75 countries. Lesotho is highest, at 0.643; Bosnia and Herzegovina is lowest, at 0.182. The middle country reads 0.337. Against 2023, 66 values changed (27 up, 39 down), 6 countries joined, 13 left.
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings · Data for 2024
HighestLesotho
0.643
LowestBosnia and Herzegovina
0.182Shaded 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, 2024, 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 75 countries · select a heading to sort
| derived | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LesothoLSOSouthern Africa | 0.643 | — |
| 2 |  BotswanaBWASouthern Africa | 0.621 | — |
| 3 |  SenegalSENWestern Africa | 0.598 | — |
| 4 |  TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa | 0.568 | Break in series |
| 5 |  ZambiaZMBEastern Africa | 0.529 | — |
| =6 |  Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa | 0.528 | — |
| =6 |  RwandaRWAEastern Africa | 0.528 | — |
| 8 |  AngolaAGOMiddle Africa | 0.515 | — |
| 9 |  MaliMLIWestern Africa | 0.500 | — |
| 10 |  GhanaGHAWestern Africa | 0.498 | — |
| 11 |  BrazilBRASouth America | 0.448 | — |
| 12 |  NigeriaNGAWestern Africa | 0.447 | — |
| 13 |  ArgentinaARGSouth America | 0.441 | — |
| 14 |  United StatesUSANorthern America | 0.430 | — |
| 15 |  IndiaINDSouthern Asia | 0.429 | — |
| 16 |  HondurasHNDCentral America | 0.426 | — |
| 17 |  GuatemalaGTMCentral America | 0.424 | Break in series |
| 18 |  IrelandIRLNorthern Europe | 0.400 | — |
| 19 |  PanamaPANCentral America | 0.397 | — |
| 20 |  BulgariaBGREastern Europe | 0.390 | — |
| 21 |  PeruPERSouth America | 0.387 | — |
| 22 |  ChileCHLSouth America | 0.382 | — |
| 23 |  Costa RicaCRICentral America | 0.378 | — |
| =24 |  ColombiaCOLSouth America | 0.368 | — |
| =24 |  UruguayURYSouth America | 0.368 | — |
| =26 |  CyprusCYPWestern Asia | 0.367 | — |
| =26 |  Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean | 0.367 | — |
| 28 |  EstoniaESTNorthern Europe | 0.360 | — |
| 29 |  EcuadorECUSouth America | 0.358 | — |
| 30 |  LatviaLVANorthern Europe | 0.349 | — |
| =31 |  FijiFJIMelanesia | 0.344 | — |
| =31 |  LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe | 0.344 | — |
| =31 |  MauritiusMUSEastern Africa | 0.344 | — |
| =34 |  SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe | 0.342 | — |
| =34 |  United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe | 0.342 | — |
| 36 |  LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe | 0.340 | — |
| 37 |  Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia | 0.338 | — |
| 38 |  MexicoMEXCentral America | 0.337 | — |
| 39 |  CanadaCANNorthern America | 0.334 | — |
| =40 |  CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe | 0.332 | — |
| =40 |  SpainESPSouthern Europe | 0.332 | — |
| =42 |  BhutanBTNSouthern Asia | 0.327 | — |
| =42 |  TürkiyeTURWestern Asia | 0.327 | — |
| 44 |  ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia | 0.325 | — |
| =45 |  ItalyITASouthern Europe | 0.324 | — |
| =45 |  NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe | 0.324 | — |
| 47 |  El SalvadorSLVCentral America | 0.323 | — |
| 48 |  ParaguayPRYSouth America | 0.320 | — |
| 49 |  BoliviaBOLSouth America | 0.316 | — |
| 50 |  AustriaAUTWestern Europe | 0.313 | — |
| 51 |  GuyanaGUYSouth America | 0.304 | — |
| 52 |  BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia | 0.302 | — |
| 53 |  PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia | 0.301 | — |
| 54 |  NorwayNORNorthern Europe | 0.300 | — |
| 55 |  PalestinePSEWestern Asia | 0.296 | Break in series |
| 56 |  DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe | 0.285 | — |
| =57 |  FranceFRAWestern Europe | 0.279 | — |
| =57 |  PolandPOLEastern Europe | 0.279 | — |
| 59 |  SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe | 0.278 | — |
| 60 |  BelgiumBELWestern Europe | 0.269 | — |
| 61 |  MoldovaMDAEastern Europe | 0.268 | — |
| 62 |  SwedenSWENorthern Europe | 0.262 | — |
| =63 |  MongoliaMNGEastern Asia | 0.259 | — |
| =63 |  SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe | 0.259 | — |
| =65 |  HungaryHUNEastern Europe | 0.257 | — |
| =65 |  SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe | 0.257 | — |
| 67 |  FinlandFINNorthern Europe | 0.256 | — |
| 68 |  CzechiaCZEEastern Europe | 0.248 | — |
| 69 |  PortugalPRTSouthern Europe | 0.236 | — |
| 70 |  EgyptEGYNorthern Africa | 0.229 | Break in series |
| =71 |  GreeceGRCSouthern Europe | 0.227 | — |
| =71 |  VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia | 0.227 | — |
| 73 |  RomaniaROUEastern Europe | 0.224 | — |
| 74 |  JordanJORWestern Asia | 0.220 | — |
| 75 | Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe | 0.182 | — |
02In 2024
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline.
032023 → 2024
Since 2023
- +6 / −13countries joined / left
- 66values changed, of 69 in both
- 27 · 39rose · fell
- 3unchanged
Rose most
- Senegal0.443 → 0.598+0.155
- Slovakia0.205 → 0.257+0.052
- United States0.388 → 0.430+0.042
- Egypt0.212 → 0.229+0.017
- Argentina0.425 → 0.441+0.016
Fell most
- Ghana0.671 → 0.498−0.173
- Mauritius0.391 → 0.344−0.047
- Sri Lanka0.383 → 0.338−0.045
- Burkina Faso0.564 → 0.528−0.036
- Bangladesh0.336 → 0.302−0.034
+ Fiji+ Guyana+ Lesotho+ Nigeria+ Palestine+ Tanzania
− Armenia
− Antigua and Barbuda
− Bahamas
− Cook Islands
− Georgia
− Equatorial Guinea
− Indonesia
− Cambodia
− Kiribati
− Palau
− Eswatini
− Tonga
− Zimbabwe04Caveats
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 2024.
62 distinct values among 75
Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 0.344. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
71 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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International Labour Organization (ILO) (2024). Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/earnings-gini/2024
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