Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2013

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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2013: 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	NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	0.693	—
2	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	0.660	—
3	MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.655	Break in series
4	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	0.623	—
5	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	0.598	Break in series
6	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	0.585	Break in series
7	Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	0.532	Break in series
=8	JamaicaJAMCaribbean	0.511	—
=8	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	0.511	—
10	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	0.478	—
11	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	0.458	Break in series
12	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	0.447	—
13	Costa RicaCRICentral America	0.446	—
14	ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	0.442	—
15	HondurasHNDCentral America	0.434	—
16	ChileCHLSouth America	0.432	—
17	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean	0.431	—
18	PanamaPANCentral America	0.419	—
19	BrazilBRASouth America	0.410	—
20	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	0.408	Break in series
=21	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	0.403	—
=21	PeruPERSouth America	0.403	—
=23	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	0.400	Break in series
=23	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia	0.400	—
25	United StatesUSANorthern America	0.395	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.357. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +10 / −10countries joined / left
• 62values changed, of 67 in both
• 28 · 34rose · fell
• 5unchanged

+ Bangladesh+ Ethiopia+ Ghana+ Sri Lanka+ Mali+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ Serbia+ Thailand+ Timor-Leste− DR Congo− Gambia− India− Madagascar− Niger− Nicaragua− Tanzania− Uganda− Venezuela− Samoa

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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