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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2000

2000, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2000 covers 151 countries. Eritrea is highest, at 24.8768; Myanmar is lowest, at 1.0659. The middle country reads 7.5389.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2000

HighestEritrea

24.8768

LowestMyanmar

1.0659

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 Wage Bill, 2000, 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 151 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2000: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1EritreaERIEastern Africa24.8768
2MicronesiaFSMMicronesia22.3732
3Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia18.7518
4LesothoLSOSouthern Africa16.9062
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.5187
6Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia15.1430
7SeychellesSYCEastern Africa14.5537
8PortugalPRTSouthern Europe13.7273
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.6792
10MaltaMLTSouthern Europe13.4061
11KuwaitKWTWestern Asia13.2719
12NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa12.9489
13FranceFRAWestern Europe12.9204
14DominicaDMACaribbean12.9107
15CyprusCYPWestern Asia12.7853
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.6633
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.3203
18Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean12.0578
19LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe12.0404
20NorwayNORNorthern Europe11.7460
21BahrainBHRWestern Asia11.6326
22LebanonLBNWestern Asia11.4285
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.2406
24SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe11.1985
25AustriaAUTWestern Europe11.1501

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Eritrea24.8768
  2. 2Micronesia22.3732
  3. 3Saudi Arabia18.7518
  4. 4Lesotho16.9062
  5. 5Denmark15.5187

Lowest

  1. 151Myanmar1.0659
  2. 150India1.2670
  3. 149Equatorial Guinea1.5726
  4. 148Bangladesh1.7420
  5. 147Ghana2.2764

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.5389. “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

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2000.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 151 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 (2000). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2000

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06Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2000: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2000?

Eritrea, at 24.8768, of the 151 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2000 describe?

2000.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2000 cover?

151.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2000?

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 Wage Bill, 2000 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Public Sector Wage Bill, 2022.

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