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Length of Paid Paternity Leave 2017

Published 2017 · describes 2016 · 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 2017 covers 190 countries. Iceland is highest, at 90; 98 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 0. Against the 2016 edition, 9 values changed (9 up, 0 down), the same countries are covered.

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Length of Paid Paternity Leave · Edition 2017

HighestIceland

90

Lowest98 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 2017, 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 2017: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
IcelandISLNorthern Europe90
FinlandFINNorthern Europe76
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe35
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe30
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia21
RomaniaROUEastern Europe21
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe21
BulgariaBGREastern Europe15
FranceFRAWestern Europe15
SpainESPSouthern Europe15
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia14
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand14
BelgiumBELWestern Europe14
ChinaCHNEastern Asia14
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe14
EcuadorECUSouth America14
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe14
GambiaGMBWestern Africa14
IranIRNSouthern Asia14
KenyaKENEastern Africa14
ParaguayPRYSouth America14
PolandPOLEastern Europe14
SwedenSWENorthern Europe14
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe14
VenezuelaVENSouth America14

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Iceland90
  2. Finland76
  3. Portugal35
  4. Lithuania30
  5. Myanmarshared21

Lowest

  1. Zimbabweshared0
  2. Zambiashared0
  3. Yemenshared0
  4. Vanuatushared0
  5. Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesshared0

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

032016 → 2017

Since the 2016 edition

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 9values changed, of 190 in both
  • 9 · 0rose · fell
  • 181unchanged

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 2016

    World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Paternity Leave 2017 are for 2016.

  • 17 distinct values among 190

    Values are stored exactly as published. 98 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 (2017). Length of Paid Paternity Leave 2017 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/paternity-leave/2017

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