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Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1972

Published 1972 · describes 1971 · stored as published, never rewritten

This is how many calendar days of paid leave a country's law reserves for a father when his child is born, as recorded by the World Bank's Women, Business and the Law project every year since 1970. Leave for fathers is widely seen as the legal lever for sharing care between parents.

Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1972 covers 190 countries. 6 countries share the highest reading, 3; 177 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 0. Against the 1971 edition, no value changed, the same countries are covered.

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Length of Paid Paternity Leave · Edition 1972

Highest6 countries share it

3

Lowest177 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 Paternity Leave 1972, 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 Paternity Leave 1972: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
BelgiumBELWestern Europe3
BeninBENWestern Africa3
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa3
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa3
FranceFRAWestern Europe3
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa3
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa2
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa2
TogoTGOWestern Africa2
ChadTCDMiddle Africa1
ParaguayPRYSouth America1
SpainESPSouthern Europe1
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa1
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia0
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe0
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa0
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa0
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean0
ArgentinaARGSouth America0
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia0
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia0
BahamasBHSCaribbean0
BahrainBHRWestern Asia0

02In 1971

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Belgiumshared3
  2. Beninshared3
  3. Burkina Fasoshared3
  4. Cameroonshared3
  5. Franceshared3

Lowest

  1. Zimbabweshared0
  2. Zambiashared0
  3. South Africashared0
  4. Yemenshared0
  5. Kosovoshared0

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031971 → 1972

Since the 1971 edition

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

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 1971

    World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1972 are for 1971.

  • 4 distinct values among 190

    Values are stored exactly as published. 177 countries share 0. 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 (1972). Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1972 [data set], describing 1971. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/paternity-leave/1972

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