AGE OF MAJORITY SANDBOX


Country Age of majority (males) Age of majority (females) Notes
 Afghanistan 18[1] 18[2]
 Albania 14[3] 14[4]
 Algeria 19[5] 19[6]
 Andorra 18[7] 18[8]
 Angola 18 18
 Antigua and Barbuda
 Argentina 21[9] 21[10] Minors are emancipated upon marriage or with parental consent starting at 18
 Armenia 18[11] 18[12]
 Australia 18[13] 18[14]
 Austria 18[15] 18[16]
 Azerbaijan 18[17] 18[18]
 Bahamas 18 18
 Bahrain 21 21
 Bangladesh
 Barbados 18 18
 Belarus 18 18
 Belgium 18 18
 Belize
 Benin
 Bhutan 18 18
 Bolivia 18 18
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 18 18
 Botswana
 Brazil 18 18
 Brunei 18 18
 Bulgaria 18 18
 Burkina Faso
 Burundi 18 18
 Cambodia 18 18
 Cameroon 21 21
 Canada 18/19 18/19 18 in Alberta, Manitoba, Ontaria, Prince Edward Island and Quebec. 19 in all other provinces/territories.
 Cape Verde
 Central African Republic
 Chad 21 21
 Chile 18 18
 People's Republic of China 18 18
 Republic of China (Taiwan) 20 20
 Colombia 18 18
 Comoros
 Democratic Republic of the Congo
 Republic of the Congo
 Costa Rica 18 18
 Côte d'Ivoire 18 18
 Croatia 18 18
 Cuba 16 16
 Cyprus 18 18
 Northern Cyprus
 Czech Republic 18 18
 Denmark none, nationally; instead, negotiated between unions and employer associations; 100.65 kroner, according to the terms of the country's largest collective bargaining agreement, negotiated in the spring of 2008 and covering almost the entire industrial sector[19] 22,713[20] 61 2008
 Djibouti none; canceled by the 2006 Labor Code for occupational categories, establishing that wages be set after common agreement between employers and employees[19]
 Dominica EC$5.00 per hour for all public and private workers[19] 7,613[21] 76 2008
 Dominican Republic 4,900 Dominican pesos a month in the FTZs and between 4,485 and 7,360 pesos outside the FTZs, depending upon the size of the company; 2,600 pesos per month for the public sector; 150 pesos a day for farm workers who are covered by minimum wage regulations, based on a 10-hour day; 95 pesos per day for cane workers in the sugar industry[19] 1,503 18
 East Timor not stipulated in law; in practice, US$85 per month[19] 5,152 218
 Ecuador US$233 (gross) per month plus mandated bonuses[19] 5,695 74 2008
 Egypt —; set by the government for the public sector[19]
 El Salvador US$192.10 a month for retail employees; US$187.73 for industrial laborers; US$166.82 for apparel assembly workers; US$89.86 for agriculture industry workers[19] 2,131 28
 Equatorial Guinea —; set by statute for all sectors of the formal economy; varies from sector to sector[19]
 Eritrea 360 Eritrean nakfa per month in the civil service sector[19] 712 95
 Estonia 4,350 Estonian krooni per month[22] 5,723 28 2008-01-01
 Ethiopia none, nationally; some government institutions and public enterprises set their own minimum wages: public sector employees, the largest group of wage earners, earned a monthly minimum wage of 320 birr; employees in the banking and insurance sector had a minimum monthly wage of 336 birr[19] 1,140 127
 Fiji none, nationally; set by the Wages Councils for certain sectors[19]
 Finland not in law; however, the law requires all employers, including nonunionized ones, to pay minimum wages agreed to in collective bargaining agreements; almost all workers are covered under such arrangements[19]
 France 8.82 per hour; €1,337.70 per month for 151.67 hours worked (or 7 hours every weekday of the month)[23] 17,563[24] 51 2009-06-26
 Gabon 80,000 CFA francs per month; government workers received an additional monthly allowance of 20,000 CFA francs per child; government workers also received transportation, housing, and family benefits; the law does not mandate housing or family benefits for private sector workers[19] 3,108 21
 The Gambia 19.55 dalasi per day for unskilled labor; 50 dalasi, in practice[19] 1,639 118
 Georgia 115 Georgian lari a month for public employees; 20 lari a month for private sector workers[19] 269 6
 Germany none, except for construction workers, electrical workers, janitors, roofers, painters, and letter carriers; set by collective bargaining agreements in other sectors of the economy and enforceable by law[19]
 Ghana 1.60 Ghanaian cedis a day[19] 807[25] 53
 Greece 680.59 a month[26] 13,382[27] 44 2008-01-01
 Grenada set for various categories of workers; for example, agricultural workers were classified into male and female workers; rates for men were EC$5.00 per hour, and for women EC$4.75 per hour; however, if a female worker performed the same task as a man, her rate of pay was the same; the minimum wage for domestic workers was set at EC$400 monthly[19] 6,609[21] 61 2002
 Guatemala 52 Guatemalan quetzales per day for agricultural work and nonagricultural work and 47.75 quetzales for work in garment factories[19] 2,823 58
 Guinea the labor code allows the government to set a minimum hourly wage; however, the government has not exercised this provision nor does it promote a standard wage[19]
 Guinea-Bissau set annually for all categories of work; approximately 19,030 CFA francs per month plus a bag of rice[19] 941 194 2008
 Guyana G$34,055 per month in the public sector; G$4,000 and over per week for certain categories of private sector workers; affected occupations include retail cashiers and clerks, printers, drivers, and conductors[19] 2,714 67
 Haiti 70 Haitian gourdes a day[19] 791 60
 Honduras 5,500 Honduran lempiras per month for the public and private sectors in urban areas; 4,055 for rural workers[28] 8,063 189 2009-01-01
 Hong Kong HK$3,580 per month for foreign domestic workers[19]; bill for city-wide minimum wage introduced[29] 7,859 18
 Hungary 69,000 Hungarian forint per month[30] 6,081 31 2008-01-01
 Iceland none; minimum wages are negotiated in various collectively bargained agreements and applied automatically to all employees in those occupations, regardless of union membership; while the agreements can be either industry- or sector-wide, and in some cases firm-specific, the minimum wage levels are occupation-specific[19]
 India —; varies according to the state and to the sector of industry; state governments set a separate minimum wage for agricultural workers[19]
 Indonesia established by provincial and district authorities, which vary by province, district, and sector; as high as 1,100,000 rupiah per month in Papua; as low as 500,000 rupiah per month in East Java[19] 1,100 28
 Iran 2,200,000 Iranian rials per month; set annually for each industrial sector and region[19] 6,623 59 2008-03
 Iraq less than 10,500 Iraqi dinars per day for a skilled worker and less than 5,250 for an unskilled worker[19] 1,332 38
 Ireland 8.65 per hour[31] 26,479[32] 43 2009-11-01
 Israel approximately 47.5 percent of the average wage, or 3,850 Israeli new sheqel per month[19][33] 12,833[34] 45 2008-07-01
 Italy none by law; instead set through collective bargaining agreements on a sector-by-sector basis[19]
 Jamaica J$3,700 per week for all workers except private security guards, whose minimum was J$5,500 per week[19] 3,859 50
 Japan ranges from 618 Japanese yen to 739 yen per hour; set on a prefectural and industry basis[19] 11,027[21] 32
 Jordan 110 Jordanian dinars per month[19] 2,895 54
 Kazakhstan 10,515 Kazakhstani tenge a month[19] 1,408 12
 Kenya set by the government by location, age and skill level; the lowest urban minimum wage was 7,578 shillings per month, and the lowest agricultural minimum wage for unskilled employees was 2,536 shillings per month, excluding housing allowance[19] 870 51
 Kiribati none; estimated by government authorities to be between A$1.60 to A$1.70 per hour[19] 11,511[35] 188
 North Korea [19]
 South Korea 4,000 South Korean won per hour; reviewed annually[19] 10,280[21] 37 2009
 Kosovo none adopted; €80 a month, unofficialy[19] 2,019[36] 88[36]
 Kuwait 217 Kuwaiti dinars per month for public sector citizen employees and 97 dinars for public sector non-citizen employees; no legal minimum wage in the private sector; at least 40 dinars per month for domestic workers[19] 8,400 21
 Kyrgyzstan 340 Kyrgyzstani som per month, nominally; used for administrative purpose[19] 255 12
 Laos 11,154 Lao kip a day for private sector workers; 290,000 Lao kip a month; 405,000 kip for civil servants and state enterprise employees, often complemented with government benefits and housing subsidies[19] 1,050 48 2008
 Latvia 180 Latvian latu a month[30] 4,582 27 2008-01-01
 Lebanon 500,000 Lebanese lira per month[19] 6,810 52 2008
 Lesotho 252 maloti per month for lower-skilled jobs; 686 maloti per month for textile machine operator trainees; 738 maloti per month for textile general workers; set annually[19] 723 56 2008
 Liberia 15 LD per hour not exceeding 8 hours per day, excluding benefits, for unskilled laborers; 4,200 LD per month for civil servants[19]
 Libya 130 Libyan dinars per month for a single person, 180 dinars for a married couple, and 220 dinars for a family of more than two; the government heavily subsidizes rent and utilities; government workers receive an additional 130 dinars per month for basic food staples[19] 1,151 8 2006
 Liechtenstein none[19]
 Lithuania 800 Lithuanian litas per month[30] 5,479 29 2008-01-01
 Luxembourg 1,570.28 per month for unqualified workers over 18; €1,256.22 for those aged 17-18; €1,177.71 for those aged 15-17; €1,884.34 for qualified workers[37] 20,197 25 2007-10-01
 Republic of Macedonia none[19]
 Madagascar 70,025 Malagasy ariary per month for nonagricultural workers; 71,000 ariary per month for agricultural workers[19] 1,050 108
 Malawi MK 142 per day for urban workers; MK 105 per day in all other areas[19] 519 62
 Malaysia none, nationally; 350 Malaysian ringgit per month for plantation workers; raised to 700 ringgit by productivity incentives and bonuses[19] 4,357 31
 Maldives 2,600 Maldivian rufiyaa per month in the government sector[19] 3,308 67
 Mali 28,465 CFA francs per month, supplemented by a required package of benefits, including social security and health care[19] 1,313 117 2008
 Malta €142.39 a week, combined with an annual mandatory bonus of €270.28 and a €242 annual cost of living increase, automatically adjusted for inflation[19] 13,696 58
 Marshall Islands US$2.00 per hour for government and private sector employees[19]
 Mauritania 21,150 Mauritanian ouguiya per month for adults[19] 2,002 98
 Mauritius 562 Mauritian rupees per week for an unskilled worker in the Export Processing Zone (EPZ); 734 rupees per week for an unskilled factory worker outside the EPZ; set by the government by sector, and increased each year based on the inflation rate[19] 1,773 15 2008
 Mexico daily minimum wages set annually by law and determined by zone; 52.3 Mexican pesos in Zona A (Baja California, Federal District, State of Mexico, and large cities), 50.96 pesos in Zone B (Sonora, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Jalisco), and 49.50 pesos in Zone C (all other states)[19] 1,645 11 2008-01-01
 Federated States of Micronesia US$2.64 per hour for employment with the national government; all states have a minimum hourly wage for government workers: $2.00 in Pohnpei, $1.25 in Chuuk, $1.49 in Kosrae, and $1.60 in Yap; $1.35 for private sector workers in Pohnpei[19] 2,600[21] 118
 Moldova 400 Moldovan lei a month[19] 810 26
 Monaco €8.71 per hour (same as the French minimum wage for full-time work), plus a 5% adjustment[19]
 Mongolia nearly 108,000 Mongolian tögrög per month for public and private sector workers[19] 1,987 56 2008-01
 Montenegro 55 a month[19] 1,528[38] 16[38] 2007-07-01
 Morocco 10.14 Moroccan dirhams per hour in the industrialized sector and 52.50 dirhams per day for agricultural workers[19] 2,779 64
 Mozambique —; set by the government for nine sectors of the economy[19]
 Myanmar 15,000 Myanma kyat a month for salaried public employees; 500 kyat per day for day laborers, supplemented by various subsidies and allowances[19] 410 35
 Namibia no statutory minimum wage law; the mining, construction, security and agricultural sectors set basic levels of pay through collective bargaining[19]
 Nauru —; there is a graduated salary system for public service officers and employees; none for private-sector workers[19] 2007-07
   Nepal 4,600 Nepalese rupees a month for unskilled labor (3,050 rupees as a basic salary, and 1,550 rupees as an allowance); 4,650 NRS for semi-skilled labor; 4,760 NRS for skilled labor; 4,950 NRS for highly skilled labor[19] 2,124 186 2008-09-17
 Netherlands 1,398.60 per month, €322.75 per week and €64.55 per day for persons 23 and older; between 30-85% of this amount for persons aged 15-22[39] 19,203 47 2009-07-01
 New Zealand NZ$12.50 per hour for workers 18 years old or older, and NZ$10.00 per hour for those aged 16 or 17 or in training; there is no statutory minimum wage for employees who are under 16 years old[40] 16,731[21] 62 2009-04-01
 Nicaragua set for nine different economic sectors; ranges from 1,392 Nicaraguan córdobas a month in the agricultural sector to 3,232 córdobas a month in the financial sector[19] 2,261 84 2008
 Niger as low as 28,000 CFA francs per month, with an additional 1,000 CFA francs added per month per child; set for each class and category within the formal sector[19] 1,424 193
 Nigeria 8,625 naira per month, nationally (with a 13 month year as the law mandates an extra month's pay for the Christmas holiday); some federal ministries, states, and private sector companies raised their minimum wage to 9,000 naira for all employees[19] 1,407 66
 Norway none; wages normally fall within a national scale negotiated by labor, employers, and local governments[19]
 Oman 140 Omani rials per month for citizens; none for foreign workers[19] 5,563 23
 Pakistan 6,000 Pakistani rupees per month, applying only to industrial and commercial establishments employing 50 or more workers[19] 3,020 110 2008-03
 Palau US$2.50 per hour; does not include foreign workers[19] 5,200[21][41] 64
 Panama ranges from 1.01 to 1.87 Panamanian balboas per hour, depending on the region and sector[19] 4,216[42] 37 2007
 Papua New Guinea 37.50 Papua New Guinean kina per week for adult workers in the private sector; 75% of the adult minimum wage for new entrants into the labor force between 16 and 21 years of age[19] 1,143 54
 Paraguay 1,341,775 Paraguayan guaraníes per month; there is no public sector minimum wage; 40% of the minimum wage for domestic workers[43][19] 6,791 142 2007-10-01
 Peru 550 Peruvian nuevos soles per month[19] 4,351 51
 Philippines ranges from P187 a day for agricultural workers in the Southern Tagalog Region to P382 a day for nonagricultural workers in the National Capital Region; set by tripartite regional wage boards[19] 2,078 59 2008
 Poland 1,276 Polish złotych per month[44] 8,050 46 2009-01-01
 Portugal 470 per month for full-time workers, rural workers, and domestic employees ages 18 and older[19][45] 9,347[27] 42
 Qatar none; the labor law provides the emir with authority to set a minimum wage, but he did not do so[19]
 Romania 540 Romanian lei per month for a full-time schedule of 170 hours per month; 120% of the minimum wage for skilled workers[19][26] 3,476 28 2008-10-01
 Russia 4,330 Russian rubles per month; essentially an accounting reference for calculating transfer payments[19] 2,819 18 2008
 Rwanda ranges from 500 to 750 Rwandan francs per day in the tea industry and 1000 to 1500 francs a day in the construction industry; the government set minimum wages in the small formal sector[19] 533 51
 Saint Kitts and Nevis EC$8.00 an hour[19] 8,328[21] 59 2008-10
 Saint Lucia EC$300 a month for office clerks; EC$200 for shop assistants; EC$160 for messengers[19] 1,276 12
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines EC$25 per day for agriculture workers (shelter provided); EC$30 per day for industrial workers earned[19] 4,351 43 2003
 Samoa WST$2.00 per hour for the private sector; WST$2.40 for the public sector[19] 3,355[21] 59
 San Marino 7.04 per hour[19] 15,871[46][47] 38[47]
 São Tomé and Príncipe 650,000 São Tomé and Príncipe dobras per month for civil servants[19] 851 49 2007
 Saudi Arabia none; 1,500 Saudi riyals a month unofficially for citizen workers in the private sector, based on the minimum monthly contribution to the pension system[19] 5,921 25
 Senegal 209 CFA francs per hour, nationally[19] 1,588[21] 91
 Serbia 13,572 dinars per month[19] 4,649 43 2008-07
 Seychelles SR2,325 per month in the public sector; none in the private sector[19] 6,361 29
 Sierra Leone 25,000 Sierra Leonean leones per month[19] 219 30
 Singapore no laws or regulations[19]
 Slovakia 8,900 Slovak korún per month[19] 6,275 28 2009-01-01
 Slovenia approximately €590 per month[19] 11,310 38 2008
 Solomon Islands SI$1.50 per hour for all workers except those in the fishing and agricultural sectors, who receive SI$1.25[19] 1,029[48] 50
 Somalia none[19]
 South Africa R1,041 a month for farm workers in urban areas and R989 a month in rural areas; for domestic workers employed more than 27 hours per week it ranges from R1,067 a month to R1,167 a month[19] 2,561 25
 Spain 624 per month[49] 12,860[27] 36 2009-11-01
 Sri Lanka 6,750 rupees per month in 43 trades[19] 1,690 37
 Sudan 124 Sudanese pounds per month[19] 1,080 47
 Suriname no legislation; SRD 600 per month is the lowest wage for civil servants[19] 3,899[50] 47
 Swaziland 300 Swazi emalangeni a month for a domestic worker; 420 emalangeni a month for an unskilled worker; 600 emalangeni a month for a skilled worker[19] 885 16
 Sweden none; set by annual collective bargaining contracts[19]
  Switzerland none; however, a majority of the voluntary collective bargaining agreements contain clauses on minimum compensation, ranging from 2,200 to 4,200 francs per month for unskilled workers and from 2,800 to 5,300 francs per month for skilled employees[19] 15,511 36
 Syria 6,110 Syrian pounds per month, plus benefits, including compensation for meals, uniforms, and transportation[19] 2,715 57
 Tajikistan 60 Tajikistani somoni per month, plus certain government subsidies for workers and their families[19] 533 26
 Tanzania set by categories covering eight employment sectors; ranges from 65,000 Tanzanian shillings per month for hotel workers to 350,000 shillings per month for the mineral sector[19] 1,688 125 2008-01
 Thailand ranges from 148 Thai baht to 203 baht per day, depending on the cost of living in various provinces; set by provincial tripartite wage committees that sometimes include only employer representatives[19] 2,308 28
 Togo 28,000 CFA francs a month[19] 1,400 173 2008-08
 Tonga none[19]
 Trinidad and Tobago TT$9 per hour[19] 3,255[21] 16
 Tunisia for the industrial sector: 252 Tunisian dinars per month for a 48-hour workweek and 218 dinars per month for a 40‑hour workweek; 7-8 dinars per day for agricultural workers; supplemented with transportation and family allowances[19] 3,013 38 2008-05-02
 Turkey 638 Turkish new lira per month[19] 7,376 56 2008
 Turkmenistan 1.65 million Turkmenistani manat per month in the state sector[19] 2,527 44
 Tuvalu A$130 biweekly in the public sector[19] 2,803[51] 175[51]
 Uganda 6,000 Ugandan shillings per month[19] 108 9 1984
 Ukraine 605 Ukrainian hryven' per month[19] 2,573 35 2008-12-01
 United Arab Emirates none[19]
 United Kingdom £5.80 per hour (aged 22 and older), £4.83 per hour (aged 18-21) or £3.57 per hour (under 18 and finished compulsory education)[52] 12,206[42] 28 2009-11-01
 United States the federal minimum wage is US$7.25 per hour; states may also set a minimum, in which case the higher of the two is controlling (see Minimum wage in the United States, List of U.S. minimum wages) 15,080[21] 32 2009-07-24
 Uruguay 4,150 Uruguayan pesos per month; functioning more as an index for calculating wage rates than as a true measure of minimum subsistence levels[19] 3,142 24 2008
 Uzbekistan 25,040 Uzbekistani som per month[19] 583 22
 Vanuatu 26,000 Vanuatu vatu per month[19] 5,352 126 2008-10
 Venezuela 959.08 Venezuelan bolívares (bolívar fuerte) per month[53] 6,010[50] 47 2009-09-01
 Vietnam official monthly minimum wage for unskilled laborers at foreign-invested joint ventures and foreign and international organizations: 1,000,000 VND in the urban districts of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; 900,000 VND in the suburban districts of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and several other industrial districts and towns; and 800,000 VND elsewhere; the government may temporarily exempt certain joint ventures from paying the minimum wage during the first months of an enterprise's operations or if the enterprise is located in a very remote area, but the minimum monthly wage in these cases can be no lower than 800,000 VND; the official monthly minimum wage for unskilled labor in the state sector was 540,000 VND in the provinces and 620,000 VND in the urban districts of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City[19] 1,054 38
 Western Sahara identical to those in Morocco[19]
 Yemen none[19]
 Zambia 268,000 Zambian kwacha per month in the formal sector; for nonunionized workers, whose wages and conditions of employment are not regulated through collective bargaining, is determined by category of employment[19] 1,043 75
 Zimbabwe —; none, nationally, except for agricultural and domestic workers; government regulations for each of the 22 industrial sectors specify minimum wages[19]


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