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Length of Paid Paternity Leave 2024

Published 2024 · describes 2023 · 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 2024 covers 190 countries. Slovakia is highest, at 196; 75 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 3. Against the 2023 edition, 10 values changed (8 up, 2 down), the same countries are covered.

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Length of Paid Paternity Leave · Edition 2024

HighestSlovakia

196

Lowest75 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 2024, 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 2024: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe196
IcelandISLNorthern Europe180
SpainESPSouthern Europe112
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe42
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe35
AustriaAUTWestern Europe30
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe30
BelgiumBELWestern Europe28
JapanJPNEastern Asia28
FranceFRAWestern Europe25
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia21
NepalNPLSouthern Asia21
RomaniaROUEastern Europe21
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe18
BulgariaBGREastern Europe15
EcuadorECUSouth America15
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa15
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe15
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia14
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia14
ChinaCHNEastern Asia14
ColombiaCOLSouth America14
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe14
CyprusCYPWestern Asia14
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe14

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Slovakia196
  2. Iceland180
  3. Spain112
  4. Netherlands42
  5. Portugal35

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 3. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032023 → 2024

Since the 2023 edition

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 10values changed, of 190 in both
  • 8 · 2rose · fell
  • 180unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2023

    World Bank Group names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Length of Paid Paternity Leave 2024 are for 2023.

  • 23 distinct values among 190

    Values are stored exactly as published. 75 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 (2024). Length of Paid Paternity Leave 2024 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/paternity-leave/2024

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