According to the ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2024 report, in 2023, the global unemployment rate improved slightly to 5.1% from 5.3% in 2022.

Average Salary: $2400 Lesotho is one of the most income-unequal countries in the world, with a Gini index of 49.5 as of 2019, primarily due to a public-private wage gap and urban-rural disparity.

Of course, a year or two of above-average pay hikes won't make up for decades of stagnant wage growth in the U.S. According to recent Census data, 4 in 10 Americans said they were struggling to ...