economic2025

Marginal tax wedge of the principal earner — single person, no children, 100% average wage

Name: Marginal tax wedge of the principal earner — single person, no children, 100% average wage
Creator: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, oecd, labour-taxation

Compare marginal tax wedge of the principal earner — single person, no children, 100% average wage across 38 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source slice.

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development•38 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

43.8Percentage of labour costs

Median: 47.1Percentage of labour costs

Countries Covered

38

with available data

Highest

Italy

72.8Percentage of labour costs

Lowest

Colombia

0.0Percentage of labour costs

Top 5 Countries

1Italy72.8Percentage of labour costs

2Belgium65.0Percentage of labour costs

3Austria58.3Percentage of labour costs

4France58.2Percentage of labour costs

5Luxembourg57.4Percentage of labour costs

By Region

Key Findings

•38 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage of labour costs observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
•Italy has the highest published value (72.768458 Percentage of labour costs).
•Colombia has the lowest published value (0 Percentage of labour costs).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0Percentage of labour costs)High (72.8Percentage of labour costs)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 43.8Percentage of labour costs)

About This Statistic

Labour taxation comparative indicators: Marginal tax wedge of the principal earner — Single person, no children — 100% of average wage. Unit: Percentage of labour costs. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 source slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other period or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

Labour taxation comparative indicators: Marginal tax wedge of the principal earner — Single person, no children — 100% of average wage. Unit: Percentage of labour costs. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Italy	72.8Percentage of labour costs
2	Belgium	65.0Percentage of labour costs
3	Austria	58.3Percentage of labour costs
4	France	58.2Percentage of labour costs
5	Luxembourg	57.4Percentage of labour costs
6	Finland	56.4Percentage of labour costs
7	Netherlands	53.0Percentage of labour costs
8	Ireland	52.4Percentage of labour costs
9	Slovenia	50.9Percentage of labour costs
10	Greece	50.2Percentage of labour costs
11	Lithuania	50.2Percentage of labour costs
12	Norway	49.9Percentage of labour costs
13	Spain	49.7Percentage of labour costs
14	United Kingdom	49.6Percentage of labour costs
15	Germany	48.9Percentage of labour costs
16	Sweden	48.6Percentage of labour costs
17	Türkiye	48.3Percentage of labour costs
18	Portugal	47.8Percentage of labour costs
19	Israel	47.2Percentage of labour costs
20	Slovakia	46.9Percentage of labour costs
21	Latvia	46.0Percentage of labour costs
22	Czech Republic	45.1Percentage of labour costs
23	Estonia	42.6Percentage of labour costs
24	Denmark	41.7Percentage of labour costs
25	Hungary	41.2Percentage of labour costs
26	United States of America	40.8Percentage of labour costs
27	Iceland	40.3Percentage of labour costs
28	Poland	38.2Percentage of labour costs
29	Japan	37.7Percentage of labour costs
30	Australia	35.9Percentage of labour costs
31	New Zealand	33.0Percentage of labour costs
32	Switzerland	32.4Percentage of labour costs
33	Canada	31.8Percentage of labour costs
34	South Korea	31.1Percentage of labour costs
35	Mexico	28.5Percentage of labour costs
36	Costa Rica	27.7Percentage of labour costs
37	Chile	10.6Percentage of labour costs
38	Colombia	0.0Percentage of labour costs

Showing 38 of 38 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2025).

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