Table : TABLE 1.2Comparisons of male and female income in selected countries, 2011

Country

HDI rank

Female income
(PPP U.S.$)

Male income
(PPP U.S.$)

Female income
as percent of male income

Austria

19

22,528

55,934

40

Barbados

47

15,119

23,507

64

Botswana

118  

   8823

17,952

49

Canada

  6

30,005

45,763

66

Japan

12

20,572

44,892

46

Jordan

95

   2456

   8581

29

Kuwait

63

24,531

65,010

38

Poland

39

13,886

24,292

57

Russia

66

15,191

23,284

65

Saudi Arabia

56

   7157

36,727

19

Sweden

10

32,990

41,830

79

United Kingdom

28

28,354

42,217

67

United States

  4

35,346

56,918

62

Sources: Income data from “Estimated earned income,” The Global Gender Gap Report 2011 (Geneva: World Economic Forum), 44, table D3, http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-2011.

HDI data from United Nations Human Development Report 2011, 128, table 1, http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-report-2011.