Dataset · ILO

Gini Index of Monthly Earnings

16 years, 2009–2024 · 75 countries

This measures how unequally pay is spread among a country’s employees, on a scale from 0, where every employee earns the same, to 1, where one employee earns everything. It is the wage part of inequality, computed by the International Labour Organization from earnings surveys.

This site holds every year from 2009 to 2024, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest: Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2024
Held: 16 years · 1,255 rows
Licence: CC BY 4.0

16years held
2009–2024years
1,255rows across every year
75countries in the newest146 across every year
1measure
CC BY 4.0licence

0116 years

Every year

Every year comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2009bar height: countries covered, up to 942024

Every year of Gini Index of Monthly Earnings held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2024Newest	75	+6 −13	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2023	82	+9 −13	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2022	86	+17 −11	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2021	80	+12 −8	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2020	76	+7 −25	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2019	94	+23 −9	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2018	80	+11 −14	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2017	83	+17 −14	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2016	80	+12 −7	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2015	75	+8 −16	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2014	83	+14 −8	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2013	77	+10 −10	September 29, 2026	CSV

Show all 16 years

Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2012	77	+10 −8	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2011	75	+10 −7	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2010	72	+16 −4	September 29, 2026	CSV
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2009	60	—	September 29, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: earnings-gini-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

024 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Gini Index of Monthly Earnings: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	75	0
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	75	0
Gini index of employees' monthly earnings (0 = all paid the same, 1 = one employee earns everything)`earnings_gini`Headline	The headline figure: Gini index of employees’ monthly earnings (0 = all paid the same, 1 = maximum inequality).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.182Bosnia and Herzegovina0.643Lesothomiddle 0.337	62	0
ILO observation status`observation_status`Flag	ILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure.	Text	—	1	71

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03146 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions

Countries in each year of Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, by continent.
	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Africa	10	13	8	8	12	9	20	8	11	20	13	13
Americas	20	22	20	23	20	21	20	16	18	18	20	19
Asia	13	14	13	14	16	15	19	18	17	16	15	12
Europe	33	33	33	33	32	32	31	33	32	31	30	30
Oceania	1	1	1	2	3	3	4	1	2	1	4	1
All	77	83	75	80	83	80	94	76	80	86	82	75

The newest 12 of 16 years.

Who joined and who left

2024
+ Fiji+ Guyana+ Lesotho+ Nigeria+ Palestine+ Tanzania− Armenia− Antigua and Barbuda− Bahamas− Cook Islands− Georgia− Equatorial Guinea− Indonesia− Cambodia− Kiribati− Palau− Eswatini− Tonga− Zimbabwe
2023
+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Bahamas+ Cook Islands+ Equatorial Guinea+ Cambodia+ Kiribati+ Palau+ Eswatini+ Tonga− Benin− Côte d’Ivoire− Germany− Guinea-Bissau− Laos− Mozambique− Niger− Palestine− Sudan− Somalia− Chad− Togo− Samoa
2022
+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bangladesh+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Ghana+ Guinea-Bissau+ Laos+ Mali+ Mozambique+ Niger+ Sudan+ Senegal+ Somalia+ Chad+ Togo+ Uruguay+ Samoa− Australia− Comoros− Ethiopia− Guyana− Cambodia− Malta− Pakistan− Eswatini− Timor-Leste− Tonga− Uganda
2021
+ Colombia+ Comoros+ Ethiopia+ Guatemala+ Paraguay+ Rwanda+ El Salvador+ Eswatini+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Uganda+ Zimbabwe− Afghanistan− Burundi− Iceland− Mali− Myanmar− Puerto Rico− Tanzania− Uruguay
2020
+ Afghanistan+ Burundi+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Chile+ United Kingdom+ Puerto Rico+ Tanzania− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bahamas− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire− Cook Islands− Colombia− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Guatemala− Kenya− Kiribati− Lebanon− Lesotho− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Mauritania− Niger− Nigeria− Paraguay− Senegal− El Salvador− Togo− Tunisia− Uganda
2019
+ Angola+ Armenia+ Benin+ Bahamas+ Botswana+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cook Islands+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Kenya+ Cambodia+ Kiribati+ Lebanon+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mauritania+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Senegal+ Togo+ Tunisia+ Uganda− Antigua and Barbuda− Chile− United Kingdom− Gambia− Namibia− Sierra Leone− Chad− Tonga− Samoa
2018
+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Burkina Faso+ Bhutan+ Gambia+ Guyana+ India+ Namibia+ Pakistan+ Sierra Leone+ Chad+ Tonga− Armenia− Bangladesh− Côte d’Ivoire− Djibouti− Ghana− Laos− Liberia− New Caledonia− Nepal− Rwanda− São Tomé and Príncipe− Togo− Uganda− Venezuela
2017
+ Argentina+ Bangladesh+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Djibouti+ Georgia+ Ghana+ Jordan+ Laos+ Myanmar+ New Caledonia+ Nepal+ Rwanda+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Togo+ Uganda+ Samoa+ Zambia− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Barbados− DR Congo− Fiji− Kenya− Cambodia− Saint Lucia− Maldives− Namibia− Pakistan− Suriname− Eswatini− Timor-Leste− Trinidad and Tobago

Not in this dataset · 79 places this site covers

ILO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
International Labour Organization (ILO)
ilostat.ilo.org
2 · Their file
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings 2024
Read from the publisher’s own service.
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
16 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as earnings-gini-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/earnings-gini

Precision

The headline is stored to 3 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

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.

Read from ILOSTAT directly. A few country-years that ILOSTAT fills with a placeholder of −1 are left out.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY 4.0

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A credit line

Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

International Labour Organization (ILO). Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2009–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/earnings-gini

The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. ILOSTAT. Geneva: ILO.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

Charted
Gini Index of Monthly Earnings by country
Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
- Poverty & Inequality
- Work & Labour
Near neighbours
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07Questions