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Length of Paid Paternity Leave 2008

Published 2008 · describes 2007 · 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 2008 covers 190 countries. Iceland is highest, at 90; 136 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 0. Against the 2007 edition, 4 values changed (4 up, 0 down), the same countries are covered.

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Length of Paid Paternity Leave · Edition 2008

HighestIceland

90

Lowest136 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 2008, 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 2008: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
IcelandISLNorthern Europe90
FinlandFINNorthern Europe35
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe28
RomaniaROUEastern Europe21
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe21
FranceFRAWestern Europe15
SpainESPSouthern Europe15
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia14
BelgiumBELWestern Europe14
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe14
EcuadorECUSouth America14
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe14
SwedenSWENorthern Europe14
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe14
ColombiaCOLSouth America10
LatviaLVANorthern Europe10
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe9
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe9
BrazilBRASouth America7
ChileCHLSouth America7
HungaryHUNEastern Europe7
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia7
BurundiBDIEastern Africa4
RwandaRWAEastern Africa4
UgandaUGAEastern Africa4

02In 2007

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Iceland90
  2. Finland35
  3. Portugal28
  4. Romaniashared21
  5. Sloveniashared21

Lowest

  1. Zimbabweshared0
  2. Zambiashared0
  3. Yemenshared0
  4. Kosovoshared0
  5. Samoashared0

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

032007 → 2008

Since the 2007 edition

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 4values changed, of 190 in both
  • 4 · 0rose · fell
  • 186unchanged

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 2007

    World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Paternity Leave 2008 are for 2007.

  • 14 distinct values among 190

    Values are stored exactly as published. 136 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 (2008). Length of Paid Paternity Leave 2008 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/paternity-leave/2008

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