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Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1975

Published 1975 · describes 1974 · 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 1975 covers 190 countries. Burundi is highest, at 4; 174 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 0. Against the 1974 edition, 1 value changed (1 up, 0 down), the same countries are covered.

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Length of Paid Paternity Leave · Edition 1975

HighestBurundi

4

Lowest174 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 1975, 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 1975: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
BurundiBDIEastern Africa4
BelgiumBELWestern Europe3
BeninBENWestern Africa3
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa3
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa3
FranceFRAWestern Europe3
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa3
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa2
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa2
TogoTGOWestern Africa2
ChadTCDMiddle Africa1
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa1
NigerNERWestern 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

02In 1974

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Burundi4
  2. Belgiumshared3
  3. Beninshared3
  4. Burkina Fasoshared3
  5. Cameroonshared3

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.

031974 → 1975

Since the 1974 edition

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 1values changed, of 190 in both
  • 1 · 0rose · fell
  • 189unchanged

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 1974

    World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1975 are for 1974.

  • 5 distinct values among 190

    Values are stored exactly as published. 174 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 (1975). Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1975 [data set], describing 1974. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/paternity-leave/1975

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