Wage gap by age

Name: Wage gap by age
Creator: OECD

Last updated time

05/10/2026 17:52

Source name

Measure

Senior to prime-age wage gap

Unit of measure

Percentage of prime-age employees wage

Pay period

Not applicable

Price base

Not applicable

Aggregation operation

Mean

Sex

Female

Country/Region

Japan

19732022

Wage gap by age group and country in 2025 (senior to prime-age wage gap, percentage of prime-age employees wage, not applicable, not applicable, mean, female)

In 2025, Costa Rica had the highest value (26.9) among 10 countries, while Norway had the lowest (-8).

#	Country	Value	Change
1	Costa Rica	26.9	-15.4%
1	Latvia (2018)	19	+31.9%
1	Chile (2024)	15.7	-14.2%
1	Japan (2022)	3.6	+2.9%
2	Korea	17.8	-4.3%
2	Estonia (2018)	15.9	-1.9%
2	Belgium (2022)	-0.3	+97.7%
2	Finland (2024)	-0.5	+54.5%
3	Lithuania (2018)	13.3	+504.5%
3	Mexico	7.1	+31.5%
3	Denmark (2024)	-1.6	+66.7%
3	Peru (2022)	-21	-39.1%
4	Bulgaria (2018)	9.6	+200.0%
4	Slovak Republic	4.2	+16.7%
4	Argentina (2024)	-3.2	+55.6%
5	Malta (2018)	6.2	+77.1%
5	Canada	3.7	-17.8%
5	Switzerland (2024)	-5.1	+44.0%
6	Czechia	3.6	+24.1%
6	Ireland (2018)	-1.6	-147.1%
6	Brazil (2024)	-15.9	+14.5%
7	New Zealand	3.4	+70.0%
7	Poland (2018)	-1.7	+54.1%
7	Colombia (2024)	-22.4	-18.5%
8	United States	1.8	-64.0%
8	Iceland (2018)	-5	-433.3%
9	Sweden	-4.1	-2.5%
9	Croatia (2018)	-6.9	+38.9%
10	Romania (2018)	-7.8	+27.8%
10	Norway	-8	-5.3%
11	France (2018)	-10.8	+11.5%