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Length of Paid Maternity Leave 2008

Published 2008 · describes 2007 · 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 2008 covers 190 countries. San Marino is highest, at 635; 13 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 90. Against the 2007 edition, 6 values changed (6 up, 0 down), the same countries are covered.

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Length of Paid Maternity Leave · Edition 2008

HighestSan Marino

635

Lowest13 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 2008, 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 2008: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe635
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe410
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe365
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe365
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe365
BulgariaBGREastern Europe315
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe273
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe270
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe196
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe196
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe182
IranIRNSouthern Asia180
HungaryHUNEastern Europe168
ItalyITASouthern Europe150
FinlandFINNorthern Europe147
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia140
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe140
RussiaRUSEastern Europe140
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia140
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe135
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia126
BelarusBLREastern Europe126
ChileCHLSouth America126
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe126
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia126

02In 2007

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. Tongashared0
  4. Swedenshared0
  5. Surinameshared0

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

032007 → 2008

Since the 2007 edition

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 6values changed, of 190 in both
  • 6 · 0rose · fell
  • 184unchanged

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 2007

    World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Maternity Leave 2008 are for 2007.

  • 36 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 (2008). Length of Paid Maternity Leave 2008 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/maternity-leave/2008

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