Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2019

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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2019: 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	KenyaKENEastern Africa	0.682	—
2	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	0.617	Break in series
3	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	0.595	—
4	BahamasBHSCaribbean	0.569	—
5	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	0.554	—
6	TogoTGOWestern Africa	0.544	—
7	MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.540	—
8	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	0.536	Break in series
9	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	0.533	—
10	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	0.529	—
11	NigerNERWestern Africa	0.526	—
12	Costa RicaCRICentral America	0.508	—
13	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	0.504	—
14	SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.480	—
15	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	0.471	—
16	BrazilBRASouth America	0.454	—
17	BeninBENWestern Africa	0.447	—
18	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	0.445	—
19	KiribatiKIRMicronesia	0.440	—
20	Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia	0.430	—
21	HondurasHNDCentral America	0.429	—
22	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	0.417	—
23	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	0.416	—
24	GuineaGINWestern Africa	0.415	—
25	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	0.411	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.355. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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+ 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

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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