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Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1982

Published 1982 · describes 1981 · 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 1982 covers 190 countries. 2 countries share the highest reading, 270; 40 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 84. Against the 1981 edition, 7 values changed (7 up, 0 down), the same countries are covered.

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Length of Paid Maternity Leave · Edition 1982

Highest2 countries share it

270

Lowest40 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 1982, 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 1982: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe270
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe270
FinlandFINNorthern Europe231
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe210
KosovoXKXSouthern Europe210
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe210
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe182
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe180
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe180
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe154
ItalyITASouthern Europe150
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe150
ChileCHLSouth America126
BulgariaBGREastern Europe120
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe120
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia112
AustriaAUTWestern Europe112
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia112
BelarusBLREastern Europe112
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe112
FranceFRAWestern Europe112
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia112
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia112
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia112
LatviaLVANorthern Europe112

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Bosnia and Herzegovinashared270
  2. North Macedoniashared270
  3. Finland231
  4. Croatiashared210
  5. Serbiashared210

Lowest

  1. Yemenshared0
  2. Samoashared0
  3. Vanuatushared0
  4. United Statesshared0
  5. Ugandashared0

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

031981 → 1982

Since the 1981 edition

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 7values changed, of 190 in both
  • 7 · 0rose · fell
  • 183unchanged

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 1981

    World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1982 are for 1981.

  • 27 distinct values among 190

    Values are stored exactly as published. 42 countries share 84. 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 (1982). Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1982 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/maternity-leave/1982

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