Low Pay Rate, 2020

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Low Pay Rate, 2020: 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	JordanJORWestern Asia	46.371	Employment and Unemployment Survey	—	—
2	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	40.846	Labour Force Survey	—	—
3	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	36.996	Labour Force Survey	—	Break in series
4	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	36.356	Employment Survey	—	—
5	MaliMLIWestern Africa	35.029	Continuous Household Employment Survey	—	—
6	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	34.258	Multi-Topic Household Survey	—	—
7	HondurasHNDCentral America	32.814	Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey	—	Break in series
8	PalestinePSEWestern Asia	30.029	Labour Force Survey	—	—
9	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	29.524	National Labour Force Survey	—	—
10	Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	28.175	Labour Force Survey	—	—
11	BhutanBTNSouthern Asia	28.047	Labour Force Survey	—	—
12	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	27.520	Periodic Labour Force Survey	—	—
13	Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe	26.976	Labour Force Survey	—	Break in series
14	IsraelISRWestern Asia	25.138	Income Survey	—	—
15	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	24.852	Labour Force Survey	—	Break in series
16	MexicoMEXCentral America	24.286	National Occupation and Employment Survey	—	Break in series
17	United StatesUSANorthern America	24.052	Current Population Survey	—	Break in series
18	UruguayURYSouth America	24.041	Continuous Household Survey	—	Break in series
19	MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia	24.025	Labour Force Survey	—	—
20	ArgentinaARGSouth America	24.023	Permanent Household Survey, Urban	Geographical coverage: Main cities or metropolitan areas	—
21	PeruPERSouth America	23.004	National Household Survey	—	Break in series
22	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean	22.072	Continuous National Labour Force Survey	—	Break in series
23	PanamaPANCentral America	21.951	Labour Market Survey	—	Break in series
24	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	21.737	Labour Force Survey	—	—
25	United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe	21.670	Labour Force Survey	—	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 20.350. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +8 / −21countries joined / left
• 46values changed, of 47 in both
• 26 · 20rose · fell
• 1unchanged

+ Afghanistan+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Chile+ Mali+ Poland+ Puerto Rico+ Tanzania+ Uruguay− Bahamas− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire− Cook Islands− Colombia− Ecuador− Finland− Kenya− Lebanon− Lesotho− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Mauritania− Mauritius− Nigeria− Pakistan− Paraguay− Senegal− El Salvador− Tunisia− Uganda

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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