Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2022

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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2022: 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	0.684	—
2	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	0.613	—
3	SudanSDNNorthern Africa	0.592	Break in series
4	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	0.548	—
5	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	0.539	—
6	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	0.533	—
7	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	0.515	—
8	NigerNERWestern Africa	0.504	—
9	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	0.501	—
10	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	0.495	—
=11	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	0.487	—
=11	TogoTGOWestern Africa	0.487	—
13	MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.482	—
14	BeninBENWestern Africa	0.481	—
15	SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.473	—
16	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	0.448	—
17	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	0.441	—
18	Costa RicaCRICentral America	0.440	—
19	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	0.439	—
20	BrazilBRASouth America	0.438	—
21	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	0.429	Break in series
22	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	0.419	—
23	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	0.410	—
=24	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	0.409	—
=24	PanamaPANCentral America	0.409	—

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

• +17 / −11countries joined / left
• 66values changed, of 69 in both
• 24 · 42rose · fell
• 3unchanged

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bangladesh+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Ghana+ Guinea-Bissau+ Laos+ Mali+ Mozambique+ Niger+ Sudan+ Senegal+ Somalia+ Chad+ Togo+ Uruguay+ Samoa− Australia− Comoros− Ethiopia− Guyana− Cambodia− Malta− Pakistan− Eswatini− Timor-Leste− Tonga− Uganda

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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