Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2017

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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2017: 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	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	0.849	Break in series
2	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	0.669	Break in series
3	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	0.613	Break in series
4	TogoTGOWestern Africa	0.579	Break in series
5	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	0.575	Break in series
6	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	0.568	—
7	São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa	0.502	—
8	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	0.498	Break in series
9	Costa RicaCRICentral America	0.476	—
10	MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.471	—
11	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	0.441	—
12	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	0.439	—
13	HondurasHNDCentral America	0.432	—
14	BrazilBRASouth America	0.431	—
15	ChileCHLSouth America	0.416	—
16	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	0.414	—
17	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean	0.400	—
18	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	0.393	—
19	PeruPERSouth America	0.391	—
20	PanamaPANCentral America	0.389	—
21	United StatesUSANorthern America	0.386	—
22	BulgariaBGREastern Europe	0.380	—
=23	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	0.379	—
=23	United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe	0.379	—
25	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia	0.377	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.354. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +17 / −14countries joined / left
• 64values changed, of 66 in both
• 27 · 37rose · fell
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+ 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

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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  https://rplumber.ilo.org/data/indicator/?id=EAR_EMTG_SEX_NB&format=.csv&channel=ilostat

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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