Official data show that women in the European Union member states earned on average 16.4 percent less than men in 2013.
The figure, which was released by the EU’s Statistics Office (Eurostat) on Thursday, revealed the pay gap is even greater in many northern countries of the bloc.
The largest salary gap was in Estonia at 29.9 percent, followed by Austria at 23 percent, the Czech Republic at 22.1 percent and Germany at 21.6 percent.
Meanwhile, the revenue gap in Britain stood at 19.7 percent, France at 15.2 percent and Ireland at 14.4 percent.
Countries with the narrowest salary gap were Slovenia at 3.2 percent, followed by Malta at 5.1 percent, Poland at 6.4 percent, Italy at 7.3 percent and Croatia at 7.4 percent.