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Length of Paid Maternity Leave 2023

Published 2023 · describes 2022 · 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 2023 covers 190 countries. Bulgaria is highest, at 410; 11 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 98. Against the 2022 edition, 9 values changed (5 up, 4 down), the same countries are covered.

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Length of Paid Maternity Leave · Edition 2023

HighestBulgaria

410

Lowest11 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 2023, 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 2023: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
BulgariaBGREastern Europe410
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe365
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe365
KosovoXKXSouthern Europe270
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe270
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe238
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe208
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe196
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa182
IndiaINDSouthern Asia182
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe182
VenezuelaVENSouth America182
GambiaGMBWestern Africa180
IcelandISLNorthern Europe180
IranIRNSouthern Asia180
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia180
HungaryHUNEastern Europe168
ChinaCHNEastern Asia158
ItalyITASouthern Europe150
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe150
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia140
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe140
PolandPOLEastern Europe140
RussiaRUSEastern Europe140
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia140

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Bulgaria410
  2. Albaniashared365
  3. Bosnia and Herzegovinashared365
  4. North Macedoniashared270
  5. Kosovoshared270

Lowest

  1. United Statesshared0
  2. Tongashared0
  3. Swedenshared0
  4. Portugalshared0
  5. Papua New Guineashared0

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 98. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 edition

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 9values changed, of 190 in both
  • 5 · 4rose · fell
  • 181unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2022

    World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Maternity Leave 2023 are for 2022.

  • 32 distinct values among 190

    Values are stored exactly as published. 41 countries share 98. 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 (2023). Length of Paid Maternity Leave 2023 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/maternity-leave/2023

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