Minimum wage (local currency)
Local currency per month, national statutory floor
- Order
- Highest to lowest monthly amount in local currency; countries without a published monthly amount are listed last, unranked.
- Countries
- 9 of 54 have data (7 with a monthly amount) · 45 without data
- Period
- Latest figures range from 2023 to 2026: 3 countries report 2026; 4 report earlier years (2023, 2024, 2025).
- Source
- National instruments · statutory
Not directly comparable. Amounts are in each country’s own currency and are not converted, so the order is not a comparison of pay levels.
Countries’ latest figures come from different years. Each row shows its own year, so figures from different years are not a like-for-like comparison.
- Values are in each country’s local currency. Rank order is not a real-wage comparison.
| Rank | Country | Value | In force since | Change from previous figure | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire | CFA75,000 / month · 2023 | 2023 | — | |
| 2 | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | ₦70,000 / month · 2024 | 2024 | — | |
| 3 | 🇩🇿 Algeria | DA24,000 / month · 2026 | 2026 | — | |
| 4 | 🇰🇪 Kenya | KSh16,113.75 / month · 2024 | 2024 | — | |
| 5 | 🇪🇬 Egypt | E£7,000 / month · 2025 | 2025 | — | |
| 6 | 🇿🇦 South Africa | R30.23 / hour · 2026 | 2026 | — | |
| 7 | 🇲🇦 Morocco | DH17.92 / hour · 2026 | 2026 | — | |
| — | 🇦🇴 Angola | amount unconfirmed | — | — | |
| — | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | no statutory minimum | — | — |
“—” in the change column means there is no earlier figure to compare with.
45 countries have no figure and are not ranked
Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Currencies & Rates
- Official exchange rate (local currency per US$, annual average)
- FX premium
- Policy rate
- 364-day T-bill
- 10-year bond auction
- Stock index 10-year return
- FX reserves (includes gold)
- Lending rate
- Deposit rate
Economy & Prices
- Inflation
- Food inflation
- Core inflation
- GDP (current US$)
- GDP growth
- GDP per capita (PPP)
- GDP per capita growth
- Unemployment (ILO modeled estimate)
- Investment rate
- Agriculture share of GDP
- Manufacturing share of GDP
- Services share of GDP
- Minimum wage (local currency)
Public Finance & Debt
Trade & Resources
- Imports of goods and services
- Trade balance
- Exports of goods and services
- Exports per capita
- Current account / GDP
- FDI inflows
- Remittances
- Terms of trade
- Crude oil production
- Proved crude reserves (billion bbl)
- International tourist arrivals