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How big is the gender wage gap?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Gender wage gap unadjusted and defined as the difference between median wages of men and women relative to the median wages of men.
Year:	2020
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, AUT, BEL, BGR, CAN, CHL, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, MEX, NLD, NZL, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	BEL (2019), CYP (2018), DNK (2019), EST (2018), FIN (2019), FRA (2018), DEU (2019), ISL (2018), IRL (2019), ISR (2018), ITA (2019), LVA (2018), LTU (2018), LUX (2014), MLT (2018), NLD (2018), ROU (2018), SVN (2018), ESP (2018), TUR (2018)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Decile ratios of gross earnings URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted June 11th, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	36.4725
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Gender Wage Gap

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Bulgaria

9.4

2.55

Luxembourg

9.2

3.40

Romania

9.1

3.50

Belgium

9.1

3.80

Upper middle group

New Zealand

8.9

4.58

Norway

8.8

4.81

Denmark

8.8

5.06

Ireland

8.7

5.17

Sweden

8.2

7.42

Italy

8.1

7.64

Slovenia

8.0

8.19

Chile

7.9

8.60

Spain

7.9

8.62

Poland

7.9

8.69

Greece

7.8

8.91

Mexico

7.6

9.61

Hungary

7.5

9.93

Turkey

7.5

9.98

Slovakia

7.3

11.01

Malta

7.3

11.09

Lithuania

7.1

11.69

Portugal

7.1

11.72

France

7.1

11.82

Australia

7.0

12.27

7.0

12.28

Czechia

6.9

12.37

Croatia

6.9

12.45

Netherlands

6.9

12.66

Iceland

6.8

12.90

Austria

6.7

13.33

Switzerland

6.6

13.78

Germany

6.6

13.89

Cyprus

6.1

15.87

Canada

6.0

16.11

Lower middle group

Finland

5.8

17.16

Estonia

5.7

17.32

USA

5.6

17.65

Latvia

5.0

20.29

Japan

4.4

22.52

Israel

4.4

22.66

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Bottom group

South Korea

2.2

31.48

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