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Firms Offering Formal Training

Firms Offering Formal Training, 2026 compilation · 181 countries

This is the share of private firms that gave their permanent, full-time workers formal training in the past year, from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys. It shows how far employers invest in the skills of the people they already employ.

This site holds one edition, Firms Offering Formal Training, 2026 compilation, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Firms Offering Formal Training, 2026 compilation
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1 edition · 181 rows
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CC BY 4.0

01One edition

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every edition of Firms Offering Formal Training held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Firms Offering Formal Training, 2026 compilation181—October 3, 2026CSV

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: firms-formal-training-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

024 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Firms Offering Formal Training: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2026DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1810
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1810
Firms offering formal training to permanent full-time workers (%)firms_formal_trainingHeadlineThe headline figure: Firms offering formal training to permanent full-time workers (%).Number · up to 9 decimals1.420Saudi Arabia79.119Chinamiddle 32.0731810
Reference yearreference_yearReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—140

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

03181 countries across every edition

Who is covered

How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each edition of Firms Offering Formal Training, by continent.
2026
Africa52
Americas33
Asia46
Europe40
Oceania10
All181

One edition, covering 181 countries.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Bank Group

  2. 2 · Their file

    Firms Offering Formal Training (readings to 2026)

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    October 3, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per edition

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 9 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

World Bank Enterprise Surveys on Data360, read from the full-precision bulk file, one reading per country from its most recent survey.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked October 3, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: World Bank Group, Firms Offering Formal Training, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Firms Offering Formal Training, Firms Offering Formal Training, 2026 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/firms-formal-training

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Enterprise Surveys. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

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07Questions

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What is the Firms Offering Formal Training?

This is the share of private firms that gave their permanent, full-time workers formal training in the past year, from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys. It shows how far employers invest in the skills of the people they already employ.

Which editions of the Firms Offering Formal Training can I download?

One: Firms Offering Formal Training, 2026 compilation, as a CSV file.

Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?

No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.

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