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Length of Paid Maternity Leave 2007

Published 2007 · describes 2006 · 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 2007 covers 190 countries. San Marino is highest, at 635; 14 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 90. Against the 2006 edition, 5 values changed (5 up, 0 down), the same countries are covered.

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Length of Paid Maternity Leave · Edition 2007

HighestSan Marino

635

Lowest14 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 2007, 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 2007: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe635
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe410
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe365
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe365
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe365
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe270
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe196
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe196
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe182
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe182
HungaryHUNEastern Europe168
ItalyITASouthern Europe150
FinlandFINNorthern Europe147
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia140
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe140
RussiaRUSEastern Europe140
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia140
BulgariaBGREastern Europe135
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe135
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia126
BelarusBLREastern Europe126
ChileCHLSouth America126
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe126
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia126
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia126

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. San Marino635
  2. Croatia410
  3. Albaniashared365
  4. Bosnia and Herzegovinashared365
  5. Montenegroshared365

Lowest

  1. Samoashared0
  2. United Statesshared0
  3. Ugandashared0
  4. Tongashared0
  5. Swedenshared0

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 90. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since the 2006 edition

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 5values changed, of 190 in both
  • 5 · 0rose · fell
  • 185unchanged

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 2006

    World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Maternity Leave 2007 are for 2006.

  • 33 distinct values among 190

    Values are stored exactly as published. 36 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 (2007). Length of Paid Maternity Leave 2007 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/maternity-leave/2007

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