Average rate of income tax and employees' social security contributions — Single person, no children — 100% of average wage
Compare average rate of income tax and employees' social security contributions — single person, no children — 100% of average wage across 38 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 OECD reference slice.
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Key Insights
- •38 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage of gross wage earnings observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
- •Belgium has the highest published value (39.5478 Percentage of gross wage earnings).
- •Colombia has the lowest published value (0 Percentage of gross wage earnings).
Country Rankings
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Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 25.1Percentage of gross wage earnings)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
Labour taxation comparative indicators: Average rate of income tax and employees' social security contributions — Single person, no children — 100% of average wage. Unit: Percentage of gross wage earnings. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.
MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 OECD slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.
Methodology
Labour taxation comparative indicators: Average rate of income tax and employees' social security contributions — Single person, no children — 100% of average wage. Unit: Percentage of gross wage earnings. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belgium | 39.5Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 2 | Lithuania | 38.7Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 3 | Germany | 38.7Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 4 | Slovenia | 36.2Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 5 | Denmark | 35.3Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 6 | Hungary | 33.5Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 7 | Austria | 32.5Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 8 | Luxembourg | 32.0Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 9 | Finland | 30.7Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 10 | Türkiye | 29.3Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 11 | Italy | 28.6Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 12 | Norway | 28.1Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 13 | France | 28.0Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 14 | Netherlands | 27.9Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 15 | Iceland | 27.2Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 16 | Greece | 26.1Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 17 | Latvia | 26.0Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 18 | Canada | 25.6Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 19 | Ireland | 25.1Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 20 | Portugal | 24.9Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 21 | Poland | 24.4Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 22 | United States of America | 24.3Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 23 | Slovakia | 24.3Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 24 | Spain | 23.5Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 25 | Australia | 23.5Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 26 | Estonia | 23.2Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 27 | United Kingdom | 23.1Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 28 | Japan | 22.6Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 29 | Sweden | 22.6Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 30 | Israel | 21.4Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 31 | Czech Republic | 21.3Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 32 | New Zealand | 20.8Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 33 | Switzerland | 18.1Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 34 | South Korea | 16.5Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 35 | Mexico | 13.2Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 36 | Costa Rica | 9.8Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 37 | Chile | 7.1Percentage of gross wage earnings |
| 38 | Colombia | 0.0Percentage of gross wage earnings |
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Data Source
This data comes from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2025).
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