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Low Pay Rate, 2019

2019, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Low Pay Rate, 2019 covers 68 countries. Jordan is highest, at 42.34; Portugal is lowest, at 5.08. The middle country reads 20.32. Against 2018, 51 values changed (26 up, 25 down), 17 countries joined, 18 left.

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Low Pay Rate · Data for 2019

HighestJordan

42.34

LowestPortugal

5.08

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, 2019, 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 68 countries · select a heading to sort

Low Pay Rate, 2019: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1JordanJORWestern Asia42.34Employment and Unemployment Survey——
2MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa39.31Living Standards Survey——
3KenyaKENEastern Africa39.13Continuous household survey——
4ZambiaZMBEastern Africa38.44Labour Force Survey——
5AngolaAGOMiddle Africa35.86Employment Survey—Break in series
6NigeriaNGAWestern Africa35.44Living Standards Survey——
7BotswanaBWASouthern Africa34.54Multi-Topic Household Survey—Break in series
8HondurasHNDCentral America33.85Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey——
9LesothoLSOSouthern Africa33.19Integrated Labour Force Survey——
10Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa32.54National Survey on the Employment Situation——
11UgandaUGAEastern Africa31.19National Household Survey——
12SenegalSENWestern Africa31.11National Employment Survey——
13PalestinePSEWestern Asia30.57Labour Force Survey——
14BhutanBTNSouthern Asia29.39Labour Force Survey——
15IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia28.70National Labour Force Survey——
16Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia27.57Labour Force Survey——
17IndiaINDSouthern Asia26.76Periodic Labour Force Survey——
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe26.50Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings——
19BahamasBHSCaribbean26.47Labour Force & Household Survey——
20MauritiusMUSEastern Africa25.55Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey——
21ArgentinaARGSouth America25.19Permanent Household Survey, UrbanGeographical coverage: Main cities or metropolitan areas—
22LebanonLBNWestern Asia24.91Labour Force Survey—Break in series
23TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa24.89National Population and Employment Survey——
24Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia24.37Household Income and Expenditure Survey——
25United StatesUSANorthern America23.86Current Population Survey——

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Jordan42.34
  2. 2Mauritania39.31
  3. 3Kenya39.13
  4. 4Zambia38.44
  5. 5Angola35.86

Lowest

  1. 68Portugal5.08
  2. 67New Zealand7.01
  3. 66Norway7.52
  4. 65Finland8.63
  5. 64Italy9.98

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 20.32. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −18countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 51 in both
  • 26 · 25rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Bahamas+ Botswana+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cook Islands+ Kenya+ Cambodia+ Lebanon+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mongolia+ Mauritania+ Nigeria+ Senegal+ Tunisia+ Uganda− Antigua and Barbuda− Chile− Denmark− Spain− Estonia− Gambia− Ireland− Iceland− Lithuania− Luxembourg− Latvia− Mali− Namibia− Netherlands− Poland− Sierra Leone− Slovenia− Tonga

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 2019.

  • 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.

  • 129 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) (2019). Low Pay Rate, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/low-pay-rate/2019

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07Questions

Low Pay Rate, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest low pay in Low Pay Rate, 2019?

Jordan, at 42.34, of the 68 countries in the file.

What year does Low Pay Rate, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Low Pay Rate, 2019 cover?

68.

Where can I download Low Pay Rate, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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