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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2006

2006, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2006 covers 172 countries. Tuvalu is highest, at 31.430668; Equatorial Guinea is lowest, at 0.770039. The middle country reads 6.989368. Against 2005, 171 values changed (72 up, 99 down), the same countries are covered.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2006

HighestTuvalu

31.430668

LowestEquatorial Guinea

0.770039

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, 2006, 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, 2006: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1TuvaluTUVPolynesia31.430668
2Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia25.622015
3MicronesiaFSMMicronesia21.806145
4TongaTONPolynesia16.113832
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.387574
6EritreaERIEastern Africa14.393600
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe14.335131
8PortugalPRTSouthern Europe13.771872
9CyprusCYPWestern Asia13.714289
10Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia13.311592
11LesothoLSOSouthern Africa13.046491
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe13.038398
13MaltaMLTSouthern Europe12.715151
14FranceFRAWestern Europe12.603516
15SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.534869
16HungaryHUNEastern Europe11.890091
17BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.699979
18NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa11.689871
19EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa11.615252
20SeychellesSYCEastern Africa11.604896
21NorwayNORNorthern Europe11.483065
22MoroccoMARNorthern Africa11.299069
23VanuatuVUTMelanesia11.223215
24SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe11.179365
25CanadaCANNorthern America11.104608

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tuvalu31.430668
  2. 2Marshall Islands25.622015
  3. 3Micronesia21.806145
  4. 4Tonga16.113832
  5. 5Denmark15.387574

Lowest

  1. 172Equatorial Guinea0.770039
  2. 171India0.927724
  3. 170Myanmar0.986351
  4. 169Bangladesh1.736939
  5. 168Nigeria1.841614

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 6.989368. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 171values changed, of 172 in both
  • 72 · 99rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

  • Tonga10.300925 → 16.113832+5.812907
  • Bulgaria3.853424 → 5.172880+1.319456
  • Fiji9.536721 → 10.853363+1.316642
  • Moldova7.967732 → 9.214296+1.246564
  • Burundi6.009548 → 7.171540+1.161992

Fell most

  • Zimbabwe6.243106 → 2.593080−3.650026
  • Tuvalu33.837143 → 31.430668−2.406475
  • Mauritania4.988415 → 2.699056−2.289359
  • Liberia5.387693 → 3.158090−2.229604
  • Iran7.427048 → 5.331584−2.095464

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 2006.

  • 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 (2006). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2006

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2006?

Tuvalu, at 31.430668, of the 172 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2006 cover?

172.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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