Edition 1979
Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979
Published 1979 · describes 1978 · stored as published, never rewritten
Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979 covers 190 countries. Finland is highest, at 14; 171 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 0. Against the 1978 edition, 1 value changed (1 up, 0 down), the same countries are covered.
Length of Paid Paternity Leave · Edition 1979
HighestFinland
14Lowest171 countries share it
0Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.
01Values only
The table
Every country and every column of Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.
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02In 1978
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline.
Highest
Finland14
Burundi4
Belgiumshared3
Beninshared3
Burkina Fasoshared3
Lowest
Zimbabweshared0
Zambiashared0
South Africashared0
Yemenshared0
Kosovoshared0
A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
031978 → 1979
Since the 1978 edition
What changed between the 1978 edition and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.
- +0 / −0countries joined / left
- 1values changed, of 190 in both
- 1 · 0rose · fell
- 189unchanged
Rose most
Finland0 → 14+14
Fell most
- None.
Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.
04Caveats
Read before you use
What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.
This edition describes 1978
World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979 are for 1978.
6 distinct values among 190
Values are stored exactly as published. 171 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Which end is better
A higher value is the better result.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 190 countries has every column.
05The files
Download and cite
The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.
- .csv
For a spreadsheet or code
190 rows · 4.4 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel
Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.
Download paternity-leave-1979-nations-inquiry.csv - ↗
The publisher’s original
World Bank Group’s own file, on its own site.
WBL2024-1-0-Historical-Panel-Data.xlsx
What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
Cite this edition
World Bank Group (1979). Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979 [data set], describing 1978. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/paternity-leave/1979
0655 held
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All of them
Length of Paid Paternity Leave: every edition55 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country
07Questions
Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979: questions and answers
Which country has the highest paid paternity leave in Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979?
Finland, at 14, of the 190 countries in the file.
What year does Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979 describe?
1978.
How many countries does Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979 cover?
190.
Where can I download Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979?
On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.
Is Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979 the newest?
No. The newest held here is Length of Paid Paternity Leave 2026.