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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2009

2009, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2009 covers 178 countries. Tuvalu is highest, at 31.602; Myanmar is lowest, at 0.866. The middle country reads 8.279. Against 2008, 177 values changed (153 up, 24 down), 1 country joined.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2009

HighestTuvalu

31.602

LowestMyanmar

0.866

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, 2009, 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 178 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2009: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1TuvaluTUVPolynesia31.602
2Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia24.696
3MicronesiaFSMMicronesia22.979
4PalauPLWMicronesia18.783
5IraqIRQWestern Asia17.903
6LesothoLSOSouthern Africa17.802
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe17.510
8MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia15.799
9Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia15.106
10CyprusCYPWestern Asia14.610
11LibyaLBYNorthern Africa14.408
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe14.192
13NauruNRUMicronesia14.037
14PortugalPRTSouthern Europe14.009
15HondurasHNDCentral America13.668
16IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.481
17MaltaMLTSouthern Europe13.399
18NorwayNORNorthern Europe13.197
19GreeceGRCSouthern Europe13.187
20FranceFRAWestern Europe13.123
21SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.798
22BotswanaBWASouthern Africa12.779
23Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe12.735
24CanadaCANNorthern America12.701
25BelgiumBELWestern Europe12.693

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tuvalu31.602
  2. 2Marshall Islands24.696
  3. 3Micronesia22.979
  4. 4Palau18.783
  5. 5Iraq17.903

Lowest

  1. 178Myanmar0.866
  2. 177Equatorial Guinea0.996
  3. 176India1.449
  4. 175Bangladesh1.641
  5. 174Turkmenistan2.081

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 8.279. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 177values changed, of 177 in both
  • 153 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Nauru

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 2009.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 178 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 (2009). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2009

0623 held

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2009?

Tuvalu, at 31.602, of the 178 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2009 cover?

178.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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