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Low Pay Rate, 2015

2015, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Low Pay Rate, 2015 covers 58 countries. Ghana is highest, at 38.32; Belgium is lowest, at 4.60. The middle country reads 20.12. Against 2014, 51 values changed (21 up, 30 down), 7 countries joined, 23 left.

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Low Pay Rate · Data for 2015

HighestGhana

38.32

LowestBelgium

4.60

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Low Pay Rate, 2015, 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 58 countries · select a heading to sort

Low Pay Rate, 2015: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1GhanaGHAWestern Africa38.32Labour Force Survey—Break in series
2MaliMLIWestern Africa34.31Continuous Household Employment Survey——
3IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia34.16National Labour Force Survey——
4PalestinePSEWestern Asia31.54Labour Force Survey——
5HondurasHNDCentral America30.46Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey——
6South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa29.54Quarterly Labour Force Survey——
7ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia29.49Labour Force Survey——
8MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia28.30Salaries and Wages Survey——
9MadagascarMDGEastern Africa27.87National Survey on Employment and the Informal Sector——
10MauritiusMUSEastern Africa27.52Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey——
11United StatesUSANorthern America26.14Current Population Survey——
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia26.05Labour Force Survey——
13MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia25.73Labour Force Survey—Break in series
14EgyptEGYNorthern Africa24.43Labour Force Sample Survey——
15MongoliaMNGEastern Asia24.00Sample Survey on average wages and salaries of employees——
16IsraelISRWestern Asia23.79Income Survey——
17Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia23.62Labour Force Survey——
18South KoreaKOREastern Asia23.50Survey on labor conditions by employment type——
19MexicoMEXCentral America22.88National Occupation and Employment Survey——
20CanadaCANNorthern America22.71Labour Force Survey——
21MoldovaMDAEastern Europe22.65Labour Force Survey——
22PakistanPAKSouthern Asia22.38Labour Force Survey——
23United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe22.16Labour Force Survey——
24ParaguayPRYSouth America21.89Continuous Household Survey——
25Costa RicaCRICentral America21.55National Household Survey——

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Ghana38.32
  2. 2Mali34.31
  3. 3Indonesia34.16
  4. 4Palestine31.54
  5. 5Honduras30.46

Lowest

  1. 58Belgium4.60
  2. 57Portugal7.10
  3. 56Norway7.27
  4. 55Finland7.77
  5. 54Denmark8.24

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 20.12. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +7 / −23countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 51 in both
  • 21 · 30rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Dominican Republic+ Egypt+ Ghana+ Madagascar+ Myanmar+ Puerto Rico+ Palestine− Afghanistan− Argentina− Burundi− Brunei− Cameroon− Comoros− Estonia− Ireland− Iceland− Jamaica− Liberia− Lithuania− Luxembourg− Latvia− Namibia− Netherlands− Poland− Rwanda− Slovenia− Tanzania− Uganda− Yemen− Zimbabwe

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.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2015.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • 112 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

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (2015). Low Pay Rate, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/low-pay-rate/2015

0618 held

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07Questions

Low Pay Rate, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest low pay in Low Pay Rate, 2015?

Ghana, at 38.32, of the 58 countries in the file.

What year does Low Pay Rate, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Low Pay Rate, 2015 cover?

58.

Where can I download Low Pay Rate, 2015?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Low Pay Rate, 2015 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Low Pay Rate, 2024.

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