Women among low-pay earners
Compare women among low-pay earners 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 Percentage observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
- •Bolivia has the highest published value (59.114 Percentage).
- •Pakistan has the lowest published value (12.638 Percentage).
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: 46.6Percentage)
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. This measure of earnings dispersion refers to the percentage of low pay workers, among all low pay workers, who are female. For more information, refer to the Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination Indicators (GEND) 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 percentage of low pay workers, among all low pay workers, who are female. For more information, refer to the Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination Indicators (GEND) database description .
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bolivia | 59.1Percentage |
| 2 | Switzerland | 57.7Percentage |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 57.5Percentage |
| 4 | United States of America | 56.4Percentage |
| 5 | Peru | 56.0Percentage |
| 6 | Dominican Republic | 55.9Percentage |
| 7 | Portugal | 55.6Percentage |
| 8 | Mongolia | 54.9Percentage |
| 9 | Moldova, Republic of | 54.8Percentage |
| 10 | Canada | 54.6Percentage |
| 11 | Costa Rica | 52.3Percentage |
| 12 | Argentina | 51.0Percentage |
| 13 | Brazil | 49.9Percentage |
| 14 | El Salvador | 48.1Percentage |
| 15 | Colombia | 47.7Percentage |
| 16 | Paraguay | 46.9Percentage |
| 17 | Thailand | 46.4Percentage |
| 18 | India | 44.9Percentage |
| 19 | Mexico | 42.7Percentage |
| 20 | Panama | 41.4Percentage |
| 21 | Türkiye | 40.3Percentage |
| 22 | Burkina Faso | 36.4Percentage |
| 23 | Ecuador | 34.0Percentage |
| 24 | Honduras | 30.6Percentage |
| 25 | State of Palestine | 23.1Percentage |
| 26 | Pakistan | 12.6Percentage |
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Data Source
This data comes from International Labour Organization (ILO) (2025).
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