Gender wage gap
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Notes on our processing step for this indicator
We removed data points flagged as "unreliable" by the source (i.e. obs_status = "U" in the original data). These data points are likely to be inaccurate and misleading for analysis.
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“Data Page: Gender wage gap”, part of the following publication: Bertha Rohenkohl, Pablo Arriagada, and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina (2026) - “Work and Employment”. Data adapted from International Labour Organization. Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260417-132209/grapher/gender-gap-in-average-wages-ilo.html [online resource] (archived on April 17, 2026).How to cite this data
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International Labour Organization (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Gender wage gap – ILO” [dataset]. International Labour Organization, “ILOSTAT” [original data]. Retrieved April 17, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260417-132209/grapher/gender-gap-in-average-wages-ilo.html (archived on April 17, 2026).Download
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