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Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1979

Published 1979 · describes 1978 · stored as published, never rewritten

This is how many calendar days of paid leave a country's law grants a mother around the birth of a child, as recorded by the World Bank's Women, Business and the Law project for the same economies every year since 1970.

Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1979 covers 190 countries. Finland is highest, at 217; 54 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 84. Against the 1978 edition, 1 value changed (1 up, 0 down), the same countries are covered.

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Length of Paid Maternity Leave · Edition 1979

HighestFinland

217

Lowest54 countries share it

0

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1979, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 190 countries · select a heading to sort

Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1979: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
FinlandFINNorthern Europe217
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe182
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe154
ItalyITASouthern Europe150
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe150
ChileCHLSouth America126
BulgariaBGREastern Europe120
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe120
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia112
AustriaAUTWestern Europe112
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia112
BelarusBLREastern Europe112
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe112
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia112
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia112
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia112
LatviaLVANorthern Europe112
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe112
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe112
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe112
PolandPOLEastern Europe112
RomaniaROUEastern Europe112
RussiaRUSEastern Europe112
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia112
UkraineUKREastern Europe112

02In 1978

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Finland217
  2. Slovakia182
  3. Czechia154
  4. Italyshared150
  5. San Marinoshared150

Lowest

  1. Yemenshared0
  2. Samoashared0
  3. Vanuatushared0
  4. Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesshared0
  5. United Statesshared0

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 84. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031978 → 1979

Since the 1978 edition

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 1values changed, of 190 in both
  • 1 · 0rose · fell
  • 189unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • None.

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • This edition describes 1978

    World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1979 are for 1978.

  • 23 distinct values among 190

    Values are stored exactly as published. 54 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 190 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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World Bank Group (1979). Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1979 [data set], describing 1978. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/maternity-leave/1979

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