⚠️ Unconfirmedeconomic2023

Statutory national minimum wage (monthly, in US$ at market exchange rates)

Name: Statutory national minimum wage (monthly, in US$ at market exchange rates)
Creator: ILO (International Labour Organization) — ILOSTAT
Keywords: statistic-of-the-day, ai-generated, wages, minimum wage, labor market, income, employment law, cost of living

Monthly statutory minimum wage in US$ (market exchange rates), comparing what governments set as the legal wage floor across countries (latest 2019–2024).

Source: ILO (International Labour Organization) — ILOSTAT•164 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

$53.3

Countries Covered

164

with available data

Highest

Belgium

$2,143.0

Lowest

Brunei Darussalam

$0.0

Top 5 Countries

1Belgium$2,143.0

2Costa Rica$610.0

3Chile$506.0

4Ecuador$460.0

5Guatemala$420.0

By Region

South America$246.9(7 countries)

North America$105.0(4 countries)

Europe$82.4(28 countries)

Other$38.9(90 countries)

Africa$28.0(9 countries)

Key Findings

•Minimum wage systems differ widely: many countries have no statutory national minimum wage, while others legislate a national wage floor.
•Exchange-rate conversion can make minimum wages look dramatically higher or lower year-to-year even if local-currency wages are unchanged.
•Where minimum wages are set by collective bargaining or subnational rules, statutory national datasets will show gaps rather than zero wages.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low ($0.0)High ($2,500.0)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: $53.3)

South America (7)

North America (4)

Europe (28)

Other (90)

Africa (9)

Asia (24)

Oceania (2)

About This Statistic

This statistic compares countries’ statutory national minimum wages, expressed as a monthly amount in US dollars at market exchange rates (not PPP). It highlights how differently countries set legal wage floors—and how exchange rates and pay-period rules (hourly/daily/weekly vs monthly) can strongly affect cross-country comparisons.

Where countries set minimum wages by hour or day, the source typically provides standardized conversions to monthly pay using country-specific legal definitions and standard working time. Some countries have no statutory national minimum wage (because wages are set via collective bargaining or subnational rules); those are not included here.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Belgium	$2,143.0
2	Costa Rica	$610.0
3	Chile	$506.0
4	Ecuador	$460.0
5	Guatemala	$420.0
6	Jordan	$366.0
7	El Salvador	$365.0
8	Honduras	$365.0
9	Bolivia	$362.0
10	Albania	$336.0
11	Belize	$335.0
12	Colombia	$326.0
13	Brazil	$280.0
14	Cambodia	$204.0
15	Fiji	$200.0
16	Botswana	$197.0
17	Belarus	$180.0
18	Bulgaria	$164.0
19	Argentina	$156.0
20	Myanmar	$146.0
21	Kenya	$105.0
22	Bangladesh	$95.0
23	Central African Republic	$77.0
24	Ghana	$75.0
25	Afghanistan	$74.0
26	Angola	$72.0
27	Cameroon	$62.0
28	Republic of The Gambia	$60.0
29	Burundi	$0.0
30	Canada	$0.0
31	Cape Verde	$0.0
32	Cayman Islands	$0.0
33	Sri Lanka	$0.0
34	Chad	$0.0
35	People's Republic of China	$0.0
36	Comoros	$0.0
37	Republic of the Congo	$0.0
38	Democratic Republic of the Congo	$0.0
39	Croatia	$0.0
40	Cuba	$0.0
41	Cyprus	$0.0
42	Czech Republic	$0.0
43	Benin	$0.0
44	Denmark	$0.0
45	Dominican Republic	$0.0
46	Equatorial Guinea	$0.0
47	Ethiopia	$0.0
48	Eritrea	$0.0
49	Estonia	$0.0
50	Finland	$0.0
51	France	$0.0
52	Djibouti	$0.0
53	Gabon	$0.0
54	Georgia	$0.0
55	Greece	$0.0
56	Guinea	$0.0
57	Guyana	$0.0
58	Haiti	$0.0
59	Hungary	$0.0
60	Iceland	$0.0
61	India	$0.0
62	Indonesia	$0.0
63	Islamic Republic of Iran	$0.0
64	Iraq	$0.0
65	Ireland	$0.0
66	Israel	$0.0
67	Cote d'Ivoire	$0.0
68	Jamaica	$0.0
69	Japan	$0.0
70	Kazakhstan	$0.0
71	North Korea	$0.0
72	South Korea	$0.0
73	Kuwait	$0.0
74	Kyrgyzstan	$0.0
75	Lao People's Democratic Republic	$0.0
76	Lebanon	$0.0
77	Lesotho	$0.0
78	Latvia	$0.0
79	Liberia	$0.0
80	Libya	$0.0
81	Lithuania	$0.0
82	Luxembourg	$0.0
83	Madagascar	$0.0
84	Malawi	$0.0
85	Malaysia	$0.0
86	Maldives	$0.0
87	Mali	$0.0
88	Malta	$0.0
89	Mauritania	$0.0
90	Mauritius	$0.0
91	Mexico	$0.0
92	Monaco	$0.0
93	Mongolia	$0.0
94	Moldova, Republic of	$0.0
95	Montenegro	$0.0
96	Montserrat	$0.0
97	Morocco	$0.0
98	Mozambique	$0.0
99	Oman	$0.0
100	Namibia	$0.0
101	Nepal	$0.0
102	Netherlands	$0.0
103	New Caledonia	$0.0
104	Vanuatu	$0.0
105	New Zealand	$0.0
106	Nicaragua	$0.0
107	Niger	$0.0
108	Nigeria	$0.0
109	Norway	$0.0
110	Pakistan	$0.0
111	Panama	$0.0
112	Papua New Guinea	$0.0
113	Paraguay	$0.0
114	Peru	$0.0
115	Philippines	$0.0
116	Poland	$0.0
117	Portugal	$0.0
118	Guinea-Bissau	$0.0
119	Qatar	$0.0
120	Romania	$0.0
121	Russian Federation	$0.0
122	Rwanda	$0.0
123	Saudi Arabia	$0.0
124	Senegal	$0.0
125	Serbia	$0.0
126	Sierra Leone	$0.0
127	Singapore	$0.0
128	Vietnam	$0.0
129	South Africa	$0.0
130	Zimbabwe	$0.0
131	Spain	$0.0
132	South Sudan	$0.0
133	Sudan	$0.0
134	Suriname	$0.0
135	Eswatini	$0.0
136	Sweden	$0.0
137	Switzerland	$0.0
138	Syrian Arab Republic	$0.0
139	Tajikistan	$0.0
140	Thailand	$0.0
141	Togo	$0.0
142	Trinidad and Tobago	$0.0
143	United Arab Emirates	$0.0
144	Tunisia	$0.0
145	Türkiye	$0.0
146	Turkmenistan	$0.0
147	Uganda	$0.0
148	Ukraine	$0.0
149	The Republic of North Macedonia	$0.0
150	Egypt	$0.0
151	United Kingdom	$0.0
152	United Republic of Tanzania	$0.0
153	United States of America	$0.0
154	Uruguay	$0.0
155	Uzbekistan	$0.0
156	Venezuela	$0.0
157	Austria	$0.0
158	Algeria	$0.0
159	Australia	$0.0
160	Austria	$0.0
161	Armenia	$0.0
162	Bosnia and Herzegovina	$0.0
163	Solomon Islands	$0.0
164	Brunei Darussalam	$0.0

Showing 164 of 164 countries

Topics

#statistic-of-the-day #ai-generated #wages #minimum wage #labor market #income #employment law #cost of living

Data Source

This data comes from ILO (International Labour Organization) — ILOSTAT (2023).

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