Public Sector Employment

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: public-sector-employment-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Public Sector Employment: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2022	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	135	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	135	0
Reference yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	21	0
Public sector employment (% of total employment)public_sector_employmentHeadline	The headline figure: Public sector employment (% of total employment).	Number · up to 14 decimals	1.672Solomon Islands47.098Maldivesmiddle 15.013	135	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

One edition, covering 135 countries.

Not in this dataset · 90 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBahrainBarbadosBelarusBelizeBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCôte d’IvoireCubaCuraçaoDominicaDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEritreaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuyanaHong KongIraqIsle of ManIsraelJapanKiribatiKuwaitKyrgyzstanLaosLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMalaysiaMarshall IslandsMonacoMontserratNauruNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNiueNorth KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPalauPalestinePuerto RicoQatarSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSerbiaSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSomalilandSouth KoreaSouth SudanSudanSurinameSyriaTaiwanTimor-LesteTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican CityYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Public Sector Employment 2022

   BI.EMP.TOTL.PB.ZS

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 11, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: public-sector-employment-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/public-sector-employment

The World Bank's Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators, through its indicator API (BI.EMP.TOTL.PB.ZS). The Bank publishes it as a 0–1 fraction; it is scaled to a percentage here.