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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2002

2002, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2002 covers 163 countries. Micronesia is highest, at 23.959; Myanmar is lowest, at 0.999. The middle country reads 7.655. Against 2001, 153 values changed (97 up, 56 down), 9 countries joined.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2002

HighestMicronesia

23.959

LowestMyanmar

0.999

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, 2002, 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 163 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2002: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MicronesiaFSMMicronesia23.959
2Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia19.738
3EritreaERIEastern Africa18.687
4Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia16.273
5LesothoLSOSouthern Africa16.218
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.035
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe14.731
8KuwaitKWTWestern Asia14.591
9MaltaMLTSouthern Europe14.572
10PortugalPRTSouthern Europe14.142
11SeychellesSYCEastern Africa13.955
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe13.203
13FranceFRAWestern Europe13.035
14BahrainBHRWestern Asia12.949
15DominicaDMACaribbean12.909
16NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa12.880
17CyprusCYPWestern Asia12.871
18FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.843
19SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.709
20San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe12.225
21HungaryHUNEastern Europe12.041
22CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe11.913
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.828
24PolandPOLEastern Europe11.680
25IsraelISRWestern Asia11.605

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Micronesia23.959
  2. 2Saudi Arabia19.738
  3. 3Eritrea18.687
  4. 4Marshall Islands16.273
  5. 5Lesotho16.218

Lowest

  1. 163Myanmar0.999
  2. 162India1.239
  3. 161Liberia1.653
  4. 160Equatorial Guinea1.813
  5. 159Bangladesh1.828

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.655. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −0countries joined / left
  • 153values changed, of 154 in both
  • 97 · 56rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Hong Kong+ Croatia+ Latvia+ Montenegro+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ San Marino+ Turkmenistan

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 2002.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 163 countries has every column.

05The 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 (2002). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2002

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2002?

Micronesia, at 23.959, of the 163 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2002 cover?

163.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2002?

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, 2002 the newest?

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

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