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Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1988

Published 1988 · describes 1987 · 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 1988 covers 190 countries. Bosnia and Herzegovina is highest, at 365; 32 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 84. Against the 1987 edition, 2 values changed (2 up, 0 down), the same countries are covered.

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Length of Paid Maternity Leave · Edition 1988

HighestBosnia and Herzegovina

365

Lowest32 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 1988, 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 1988: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe365
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe300
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe270
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe210
KosovoXKXSouthern Europe210
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe210
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe182
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe180
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe180
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe154
ItalyITASouthern Europe150
FinlandFINNorthern Europe147
ChileCHLSouth America126
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe126
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe126
BulgariaBGREastern Europe120
Costa RicaCRICentral America120
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia112
AustriaAUTWestern Europe112
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia112
BelarusBLREastern Europe112
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe112
FranceFRAWestern Europe112
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia112
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia112

02In 1987

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Bosnia and Herzegovina365
  2. San Marino300
  3. North Macedonia270
  4. Croatiashared210
  5. Serbiashared210

Lowest

  1. Yemenshared0
  2. Samoashared0
  3. United Statesshared0
  4. Ugandashared0
  5. Tanzaniashared0

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

031987 → 1988

Since the 1987 edition

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 2values changed, of 190 in both
  • 2 · 0rose · fell
  • 188unchanged

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 1987

    World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1988 are for 1987.

  • 30 distinct values among 190

    Values are stored exactly as published. 44 countries share 84. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 190 countries has every column.

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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 (1988). Length of Paid Maternity Leave 1988 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/maternity-leave/1988

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