Low Pay Rate, 2014

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Low Pay Rate, 2014: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).

Positionderived	Country	Employees paid less than two-thirds of the median hourly earnings (%)	Source (ILO)	What the source covers (ILO notes)	ILO observation status
1	BurundiBDIEastern Africa	45.355	Living Standards Survey	—	—
2	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	41.682	National Household Survey	—	—
3	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	38.587	National Panel Survey	—	—
4	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	37.027	Labour Force Survey	—	—
5	MaliMLIWestern Africa	35.940	Continuous Household Employment Survey	—	Break in series
6	BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	35.252	Labour Force Survey	—	Break in series
7	NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	34.105	Labour Force Survey	—	—
8	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	33.594	Integrated Household Survey on Living Conditions	—	Break in series
9	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	32.816	National Labour Force Survey	—	—
10	ComorosCOMEastern Africa	31.582	National Survey on Employment and the Informal Sector	—	—
11	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	30.984	Household Survey	—	—
12	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	29.625	Quarterly Labour Force Survey	—	—
13	HondurasHNDCentral America	29.570	Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey	—	—
14	YemenYEMWestern Asia	28.612	Labour Force Survey	—	Break in series
15	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	28.600	Salaries and Wages Survey	—	—
16	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	28.366	Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey	—	—
17	United StatesUSANorthern America	27.099	Current Population Survey	—	—
18	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia	26.704	Labour Force Survey	—	—
19	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	24.883	Household Income and Expenditure Survey	—	Break in series
20	MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	24.475	Sample Survey on average wages and salaries of employees	—	—
21	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	24.354	Labour Force Survey	—	—
22	ParaguayPRYSouth America	24.332	Continuous Household Survey	—	—
23	ArgentinaARGSouth America	24.329	Permanent Household Survey, Urban	Geographical coverage: Main cities or metropolitan areas	—
=24	PolandPOLEastern Europe	23.700	Structure of Earnings Survey	Reference group coverage: Employees; Establishment size coverage: All establishments with at least 10 employees	—
=24	South KoreaKOREastern Asia	23.700	Survey on labor conditions by employment type	—	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 20.345. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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• 51values changed, of 52 in both
• 18 · 33rose · fell
• 1unchanged

+ Afghanistan+ Burundi+ Brunei+ Cameroon+ Comoros+ Estonia+ Greece+ Ireland+ Iceland+ Liberia+ Lithuania+ Luxembourg+ Latvia+ Netherlands+ Poland+ Rwanda+ Slovenia+ Thailand+ Tanzania+ Uganda+ Yemen+ Zimbabwe− Bangladesh− Côte d’Ivoire− Egypt− Ethiopia− Ghana− Malawi− Nigeria− Timor-Leste

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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