Dataset · World Bank Group
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.
Firms Offering Formal Training · the file
- Newest
- Firms Offering Formal Training, 2026 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 181 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
01One edition
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firms Offering Formal Training, 2026 compilation | 181 | — | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
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.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2026 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 181 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 181 | 0 | |
Firms offering formal training to permanent full-time workers (%)firms_formal_trainingHeadline | The headline figure: Firms offering formal training to permanent full-time workers (%). | Number · up to 9 decimals | 1.420 | 181 | 0 | |
Reference yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 14 | 0 |
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.
| 2026 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 52 |
| Americas | 33 |
| Asia | 46 |
| Europe | 40 |
| Oceania | 10 |
| All | 181 |
One edition, covering 181 countries.
Not in this dataset · 44 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Firms Offering Formal Training (readings to 2026)
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: firms-formal-training-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · 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.
Licence · checked October 3, 2026
- 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
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Firms Offering Formal Training by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Employment-to-Population RatioILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
- Unemployment RateILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
- Vulnerable EmploymentILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
07Questions
Firms Offering Formal Training: questions and answers
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.