Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2021

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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2021: 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	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	0.673	—
2	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	0.660	—
3	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	0.589	—
4	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	0.558	—
5	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	0.553	—
6	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	0.534	—
7	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	0.487	—
8	Costa RicaCRICentral America	0.472	—
9	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	0.448	—
10	BrazilBRASouth America	0.439	—
11	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	0.435	—
12	HondurasHNDCentral America	0.430	—
13	PanamaPANCentral America	0.429	Break in series
14	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	0.418	—
15	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	0.414	Break in series
16	ComorosCOMEastern Africa	0.413	—
17	PeruPERSouth America	0.406	—
18	ChileCHLSouth America	0.399	—
=19	BulgariaBGREastern Europe	0.396	—
=19	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	0.396	—
=19	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	0.396	—
22	ArgentinaARGSouth America	0.394	—
23	Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	0.392	—
24	TongaTONPolynesia	0.391	—
25	EcuadorECUSouth America	0.385	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.347. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +12 / −8countries joined / left
• 65values changed, of 68 in both
• 23 · 42rose · fell
• 3unchanged

+ Colombia+ Comoros+ Ethiopia+ Guatemala+ Paraguay+ Rwanda+ El Salvador+ Eswatini+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Uganda+ Zimbabwe− Afghanistan− Burundi− Iceland− Mali− Myanmar− Puerto Rico− Tanzania− Uruguay

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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