Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2010

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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2010: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).

Positionderived	Country	Gini index of employees' monthly earnings (0 = all paid the same, 1 = one employee earns everything)	ILO observation status
1	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	0.736	—
2	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	0.711	—
3	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	0.706	Break in series
4	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	0.566	—
5	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	0.494	—
6	ChileCHLSouth America	0.456	—
7	JamaicaJAMCaribbean	0.444	—
8	PeruPERSouth America	0.441	—
9	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	0.440	—
10	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	0.434	Break in series
=11	Costa RicaCRICentral America	0.430	—
=11	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	0.430	—
13	HondurasHNDCentral America	0.426	—
14	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean	0.416	—
15	UruguayURYSouth America	0.414	—
16	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	0.410	—
17	VanuatuVUTMelanesia	0.407	—
18	LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	0.406	Break in series
=19	ColombiaCOLSouth America	0.402	Break in series
=19	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	0.402	—
=21	CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	0.398	—
=21	PanamaPANCentral America	0.398	Break in series
=23	EcuadorECUSouth America	0.393	—
=23	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	0.393	—
=23	United StatesUSANorthern America	0.393	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.360. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +16 / −4countries joined / left
• 54values changed, of 56 in both
• 17 · 37rose · fell
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+ Armenia+ Colombia+ Costa Rica+ Guatemala+ Croatia+ India+ Laos+ Liberia+ Sri Lanka+ El Salvador+ Timor-Leste+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tanzania+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ South Africa− Bolivia− Brazil− Republic of the Congo− Tajikistan

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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