Work & Labour2024
Countries With The Lowest Average Salaries in 2024
Lesotho has the lowest average monthly wage in the world for 2024, on US$24 a month, with Angola next on 27.
The bottom ten of 196 countries, and six more added for comparison. Niger, Madagascar and Liberia are all published at US$47 a month and still carry three different ranks.
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A ranked table of the ten lowest-paying countries in 2024, counting down from 196th, with six further countries added underneath for comparison. Lesotho is last on US$24 a month, then Angola on $27 and Malawi on $31. Niger, Madagascar and Liberia are all published at $47 and still carry three different ranks. The added rows run from Pakistan, 145th on $163, to Indonesia, 120th on $344. Each country’s 2024 GDP is in the last column.
01The figures
Gross average monthly wage, 2024
Every row the chart prints, as text rather than pixels — 16 of them, exactly as CEOWORLD Magazine published them. Country names link to their profiles.
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Countries worth mentioning
Rank 196 is the lowest wage in the list, not the highest. Three countries — Niger, Madagascar and Liberia — are published at the same US$47 a month and still carry different ranks. Wages are gross and converted at current exchange rates.
02Connections
The same subject, measured here
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Nations Inquiry holds no average-wage series. The nearest measures it does hold come from the ILO and the World Bank — GDP per person employed, labour productivity per hour worked, and the working poverty rate.
- GDP per Person EmployedWorld Bank Group
- Labour Productivity per Hour WorkedInternational Labour Organization (ILO)
- Working Poverty RateInternational Labour Organization (ILO)
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03Sources
Where these figures come from
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Average salary by country, 2024 — CEOWORLD Magazine
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“Countries With The Lowest Average Salaries in 2024”, Nations Inquiry, 2025. https://nationsinquiry.com/charts/countries-with-the-lowest-average-salaries-in-2024
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