--- title: Infographic Map: Gender Pay Gap Map Shows Global Wage Differences description: The countries with the highest gender wage gap canonical: https://time.com/14153/global-gender-pay-gap-map/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-06T16:51:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:32.297Z og:title: This Map Shows Just How Big The Wage Gap Between Men and Women Is og:description: The gender pay gap is biggest in South Korea og:url: https://time.com/14153/global-gender-pay-gap-map/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Map Shows Just How Big The Wage Gap Between Men and Women Is twitter:description: The gender pay gap is biggest in South Korea twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Map Shows Just How Big The Wage Gap Between Men and Women Is by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 6, 2014 4:51 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 6, 2014 4:51 PM UTC We all know that women tend to earn less than men, but this infographic illustrates just _how_ much less. The graph at the top shows how the average pay gap across the European Union has fluctuated over recent years, and the map below shows the percentage difference between male and female wages in nations across the globe. Unfortunately, data wasn’t available for many countries, but the overall trend remains clear: the global gender pay gap is still huge. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/14153/global-gender-pay-gap-map/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/14153/global-gender-pay-gap-map/"},"headline":"This Map Shows Just How Big The Wage Gap Between Men and Women Is","datePublished":"2014-03-06T16:51:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:32.297Z","description":"The gender pay gap is biggest in South Korea","url":"https://time.com/14153/global-gender-pay-gap-map/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","society","gender","infographic","Maps","World","gender pay gap"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/14153/global-gender-pay-gap-map/","name":"This Map Shows Just How Big The Wage Gap Between Men and Women Is"}}]}] ```