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Low-pay employee rate

Compare low-pay employee rate across 32 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 ILOSTAT reference slice.

Source: International Labour Organization (ILO)•32 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
17.4Percentage
Median: 17.2Percentage
Countries Covered
32
with available data
Highest
Burkina Faso
36.5Percentage
Lowest
Portugal
4.0Percentage
Top 5 Countries
1Burkina Faso36.5Percentage
2State of Palestine30.8Percentage
3Honduras29.7Percentage
4Türkiye23.0Percentage
5India22.5Percentage
By Region
North America20.7Percentage(3 countries)
Other20.3Percentage(12 countries)
South America18.4Percentage(5 countries)
Asia14.7Percentage(5 countries)
Europe12.5Percentage(5 countries)
Key Findings
  • •32 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
  • •Burkina Faso has the highest published value (36.471 Percentage).
  • •Portugal has the lowest published value (3.954 Percentage).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (4.0Percentage)High (36.5Percentage)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 17.4Percentage)

North America (3)
Other (12)
South America (5)
Asia (5)
Europe (5)
Oceania (2)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

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. This measure of earnings dispersion refers to the proportion of employees whose hourly earnings at all jobs were less than two-thirds of median hourly 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. This measure of earnings dispersion refers to the proportion of employees whose hourly earnings at all jobs were less than two-thirds of median hourly earnings. For more information, refer to the Wages and Working Time Statistics (COND) database description .

Full Data

Rank ↑Country ↕Value ↕
1Burkina Faso36.5Percentage
2State of Palestine30.8Percentage
3Honduras29.7Percentage
4Türkiye23.0Percentage
5India22.5Percentage
6Dominican Republic22.0Percentage
7Peru22.0Percentage
8United States of America21.8Percentage
9Argentina21.8Percentage
10Bolivia21.5Percentage
11Mexico20.3Percentage
12Canada20.1Percentage
13Switzerland18.8Percentage
14Ecuador18.3Percentage
15Australia17.7Percentage
16Paraguay17.4Percentage
17Brazil17.0Percentage
18Czech Republic16.5Percentage
19United Kingdom16.3Percentage
20El Salvador16.2Percentage
21South Korea15.8Percentage
22Pakistan15.1Percentage
23Panama13.7Percentage
24Colombia13.0Percentage
25Moldova, Republic of12.6Percentage
26Mongolia11.8Percentage
27Japan10.7Percentage
28Thailand9.6Percentage
29Costa Rica8.1Percentage
30Norway6.7Percentage
31New Zealand5.0Percentage
32Portugal4.0Percentage
Showing 32 of 32 countries

Topics

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Data Source

This data comes from International Labour Organization (ILO) (2025).

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