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Public Sector Employment, 2022 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2022; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Employment, 2022 compilation covers 135 countries. Maldives is highest, at 47.098; Solomon Islands is lowest, at 1.672. The middle country reads 15.813. 18 readings are more than ten years older than the file and are listed but not compared.

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Public Sector Employment · Latest available · compiled 2022

HighestMaldives

47.098

LowestSolomon Islands

1.672

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Public Sector Employment, 2022 compilation, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 135 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Employment, 2022 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia · 2019 reading201947.098
2RussiaRUSEastern Europe · 2016 reading201644.933
3DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2017 reading201742.830
4UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2013 reading201338.666
5MicronesiaFSMMicronesia · 2005 reading, too old to compare200538.216
6KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2010 reading, too old to compare201037.169
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2020 reading202035.785
8NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2020 reading202032.833
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2020 reading202032.522
10Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia · 2013 reading201332.208
11LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2020 reading202031.542
12SomaliaSOMEastern Africa · 2013 reading201330.954
13KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2014 reading201430.743
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2019 reading201930.719
15MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2015 reading201530.289
16IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2013 reading201329.912
17TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2013 reading201329.457
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2020 reading202029.332
19FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2020 reading202028.938
20United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2018 reading201828.867
21MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2020 reading202028.599
22UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2003 reading, too old to compare200328.038
23FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2020 reading202027.822
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2020 reading202027.511
25Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe · 2019 reading201927.380

02In Public Sector Employment, 2022 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline. Readings too old to compare take no part.

Highest

  1. 1Maldives47.098
  2. 2Russia44.933
  3. 3Djibouti42.830
  4. 4Ukraine38.666
  5. 7Belgium35.785

Lowest

  1. 135Solomon Islands1.672
  2. 134Niger1.975
  3. 133Malawi2.396
  4. 132Chad2.406
  5. 131Madagascar2.549

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 15.813. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2022, from 2001 to 2022. 18 are more than ten years older than the file: listed and marked, but left out of the ends and the changes.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 135 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2022). Public Sector Employment, 2022 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-sector-employment/2022

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06Questions

Public Sector Employment, 2022 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector employment in Public Sector Employment, 2022 compilation?

Maldives, at 47.098, of the 135 countries in the file.

How many countries does Public Sector Employment, 2022 compilation cover?

135.

Where can I download Public Sector Employment, 2022 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Public Sector Employment, 2022 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-11, when it was read from the publisher.

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