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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2005

2005, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2005 covers 172 countries. Tuvalu is highest, at 33.8371; Myanmar is lowest, at 0.6034. The middle country reads 7.1209. Against 2004, 169 values changed (70 up, 99 down), 3 countries joined, 1 left.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2005

HighestTuvalu

33.8371

LowestMyanmar

0.6034

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, 2005, 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 172 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2005: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1TuvaluTUVPolynesia33.8371
2Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia25.5349
3MicronesiaFSMMicronesia21.9956
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.6508
5EritreaERIEastern Africa15.6271
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe14.8584
7PortugalPRTSouthern Europe14.5232
8Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia13.8339
9CyprusCYPWestern Asia13.7049
10LesothoLSOSouthern Africa13.6002
11FinlandFINNorthern Europe13.2652
12MaltaMLTSouthern Europe13.0969
13FranceFRAWestern Europe12.8393
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.7503
15HungaryHUNEastern Europe12.3058
16NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa12.1430
17EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa12.0876
18NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.0489
19BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.7631
20MoroccoMARNorthern Africa11.5166
21GreeceGRCSouthern Europe11.4901
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe11.4798
23MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia11.3317
24DominicaDMACaribbean11.2942
25Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe11.1935

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tuvalu33.8371
  2. 2Marshall Islands25.5349
  3. 3Micronesia21.9956
  4. 4Denmark15.6508
  5. 5Eritrea15.6271

Lowest

  1. 172Myanmar0.6034
  2. 171Equatorial Guinea0.8486
  3. 170India1.0089
  4. 169Bangladesh1.6458
  5. 168Gambia1.8865

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.1209. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −1countries joined / left
  • 169values changed, of 169 in both
  • 70 · 99rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cambodia+ Tuvalu+ Zimbabwe− San Marino

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 2005.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 172 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 (2005). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2005

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2005?

Tuvalu, at 33.8371, of the 172 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2005 cover?

172.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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