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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2008

2008, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2008 covers 177 countries. Tuvalu is highest, at 28.0432; Equatorial Guinea is lowest, at 0.6373. The middle country reads 7.5081. Against 2007, 171 values changed (95 up, 76 down), 5 countries joined.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2008

HighestTuvalu

28.0432

LowestEquatorial Guinea

0.6373

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, 2008, 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 177 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2008: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1TuvaluTUVPolynesia28.0432
2MicronesiaFSMMicronesia24.7360
3Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia24.1319
4PalauPLWMicronesia17.9330
5EritreaERIEastern Africa16.0372
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.5972
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa13.8911
8MaltaMLTSouthern Europe13.6400
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.3109
10CyprusCYPWestern Asia13.1655
11PortugalPRTSouthern Europe13.0982
12EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa12.9238
13FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.8350
14VanuatuVUTMelanesia12.7812
15SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.4824
16FranceFRAWestern Europe12.3782
17MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia12.2643
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.9239
19BotswanaBWASouthern Africa11.8772
20HondurasHNDCentral America11.8548
21Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe11.8395
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe11.6884
23NorwayNORNorthern Europe11.4913
24TongaTONPolynesia11.3947
25CanadaCANNorthern America11.3425

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tuvalu28.0432
  2. 2Micronesia24.7360
  3. 3Marshall Islands24.1319
  4. 4Palau17.9330
  5. 5Eritrea16.0372

Lowest

  1. 177Equatorial Guinea0.6373
  2. 176Zimbabwe0.7713
  3. 175Myanmar0.9022
  4. 174India1.2740
  5. 173Bangladesh1.6895

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.5081. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −0countries joined / left
  • 171values changed, of 172 in both
  • 95 · 76rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Palau+ San Marino+ Samoa

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 2008.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 177 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 (2008). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2008

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2008?

Tuvalu, at 28.0432, of the 177 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2008 cover?

177.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2008?

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, 2008 the newest?

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

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