Women's gross earnings in the EU were on average 14.1 percent lower than men's in 2019, the EU's statistics bureau Eurostat said in a report on Monday. They noted that the gender pay gap in Croatia, Sweden, Ireland and Spain was a little less than the EU average.

“There are imbalances in the earnings of women and men,” Eurostat said in the report on the average gross hourly earnings.

The biggest gender pay gap was registered in Estonia (21.7 percent), Latvia (21.2 percent), Austria (19.9 percent), and Germany (19.2 percent).

The gender pay gap in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary on average ranged from 18.4 to 18.2 percent.

In Luxembourg, Romania, Italy, and Belgium there was very little difference between the average pay of women and men, with the average gross hourly pay only 1.3-5.8 percent lower for women than for men.

Croatia’s gender pay gap was 11.5 percent in 2019, Eurostat said.