Length of Paid Maternity Leave

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: maternity-leave-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Length of Paid Maternity Leave: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2026	Distinct	Empty	Spread
EconomycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	190	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	190	0
Paid maternity leave (calendar days)maternity_leave_daysHeadline	The headline figure: Paid maternity leave set in law (calendar days).	Number · whole numbers	012 share it410Bulgariamiddle 98	34	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.

The newest 12 of 55 editions.

The same 190 countries in every edition.

Not in this dataset · 35 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.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamIsle of ManLiechtensteinMacauMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsSaint MartinSint MaartenSomalilandTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   wbl.worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Length of Paid Maternity Leave, Women, Business and the Law 2026

   2026-02-26-WBL-2026-1-0-Scores-Values_F.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   55 files, one per edition

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every edition together as maternity-leave-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/maternity-leave

The World Bank's Women, Business and the Law data: the historical panel for 1971–2024 and the WBL 2026 file for the latest year, stored exactly as each was published.

• Charted

  Length of Paid Maternity Leave by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Gender & Equality
  • Work & Labour

• Near neighbours

  • Women, Business and the LawWorld Bank Group · 55 held · 1971–2026
  • Women's Political Empowerment IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
  • Social Institutions and Gender IndexOECD · 1 held · 2023