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Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979

Published 1979 · describes 1978 · 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 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.

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Length of Paid Paternity Leave · Edition 1979

HighestFinland

14

Lowest171 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 1979, 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 1979: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
FinlandFINNorthern Europe14
BurundiBDIEastern Africa4
BelgiumBELWestern Europe3
BeninBENWestern Africa3
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa3
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa3
FranceFRAWestern Europe3
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa3
ArgentinaARGSouth America2
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa2
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
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia0

02In 1978

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Finland14
  2. Burundi4
  3. Belgiumshared3
  4. Beninshared3
  5. Burkina Fasoshared3

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.

031978 → 1979

Since the 1978 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 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.

  • 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 (1979). Length of Paid Paternity Leave 1979 [data set], describing 1978. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/paternity-leave/1979

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