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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2010

2010, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2010 covers 178 countries. Tuvalu is highest, at 33.1846; Equatorial Guinea is lowest, at 0.9639. The middle country reads 8.0656. Against 2009, 178 values changed (61 up, 117 down), the same countries are covered.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2010

HighestTuvalu

33.1846

LowestEquatorial Guinea

0.9639

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, 2010, 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, 2010: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1TuvaluTUVPolynesia33.1846
2Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia23.4589
3MicronesiaFSMMicronesia22.8933
4PalauPLWMicronesia18.3666
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe17.2942
6LesothoLSOSouthern Africa16.7994
7NauruNRUMicronesia16.6102
8Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia14.5439
9CyprusCYPWestern Asia14.2377
10FinlandFINNorthern Europe14.0484
11IraqIRQWestern Asia13.9453
12BotswanaBWASouthern Africa13.8597
13PortugalPRTSouthern Europe13.6829
14EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa13.6768
15HondurasHNDCentral America13.3910
16IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.2259
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe13.0634
18FranceFRAWestern Europe13.0229
19San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe12.7609
20TongaTONPolynesia12.6725
21MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia12.6124
22MaltaMLTSouthern Europe12.5517
23SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.5421
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe12.5225
25Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe12.4892

02In 2010

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tuvalu33.1846
  2. 2Marshall Islands23.4589
  3. 3Micronesia22.8933
  4. 4Palau18.3666
  5. 5Denmark17.2942

Lowest

  1. 178Equatorial Guinea0.9639
  2. 177India1.1530
  3. 176Myanmar1.1935
  4. 175Bangladesh1.6800
  5. 174Turkmenistan2.2844

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 8.0656. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032009 → 2010

Since 2009

What changed between 2009 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 178values changed, of 178 in both
  • 61 · 117rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Iraq17.9029 → 13.9453−3.9576
  • Eritrea12.1889 → 8.8331−3.3557
  • Maldives15.7988 → 12.6124−3.1864
  • Moldova11.5842 → 8.4804−3.1038
  • Angola11.9232 → 9.2676−2.6556

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 2010.

  • 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 (2010). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2010 [data set], describing 2010. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2010

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2010: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2010?

Tuvalu, at 33.1846, of the 178 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2010 describe?

2010.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2010 cover?

178.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2010?

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, 2010 the newest?

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

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