Gini index of hourly employee earnings
Compare gini index of hourly employee earnings across 26 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 ILOSTAT reference slice.
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Key Insights
- •26 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Gini index observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
- •Burkina Faso has the highest published value (0.67 Gini index).
- •Mongolia has the lowest published value (0.252 Gini index).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 0.4Gini index)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. The Gini index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of earnings among employees. It ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 indicates perfect equality (all employees have the same earnings) and higher values indicate greater inequality. The index is calculated from the distribution of employees earnings. For more information, refer to the Wages and Working Time Statistics (COND) database description .
MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 ILOSTAT 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
With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. The Gini index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of earnings among employees. It ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 indicates perfect equality (all employees have the same earnings) and higher values indicate greater inequality. The index is calculated from the distribution of employees earnings. For more information, refer to the Wages and Working Time Statistics (COND) database description .
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burkina Faso | 0.7Gini index |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.5Gini index |
| 3 | Brazil | 0.5Gini index |
| 4 | Honduras | 0.4Gini index |
| 5 | Bolivia | 0.4Gini index |
| 6 | India | 0.4Gini index |
| 7 | Türkiye | 0.4Gini index |
| 8 | Panama | 0.4Gini index |
| 9 | Dominican Republic | 0.4Gini index |
| 10 | Peru | 0.4Gini index |
| 11 | Paraguay | 0.4Gini index |
| 12 | Argentina | 0.4Gini index |
| 13 | Thailand | 0.4Gini index |
| 14 | Switzerland | 0.4Gini index |
| 15 | Colombia | 0.4Gini index |
| 16 | Costa Rica | 0.4Gini index |
| 17 | State of Palestine | 0.4Gini index |
| 18 | Mexico | 0.3Gini index |
| 19 | El Salvador | 0.3Gini index |
| 20 | Canada | 0.3Gini index |
| 21 | Ecuador | 0.3Gini index |
| 22 | United Kingdom | 0.3Gini index |
| 23 | Moldova, Republic of | 0.3Gini index |
| 24 | Portugal | 0.3Gini index |
| 25 | Pakistan | 0.3Gini index |
| 26 | Mongolia | 0.3Gini index |
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Data Source
This data comes from International Labour Organization (ILO) (2025).
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