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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2011

2011, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2011 covers 179 countries. Libya is highest, at 34.8404; Equatorial Guinea is lowest, at 0.7931. The middle country reads 7.9896. Against 2010, 177 values changed (65 up, 112 down), 2 countries joined, 1 left.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2011

HighestLibya

34.8404

LowestEquatorial Guinea

0.7931

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, 2011, 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 179 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2011: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LibyaLBYNorthern Africa34.8404
2TuvaluTUVPolynesia31.0649
3KiribatiKIRMicronesia30.0091
4Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia21.9048
5MicronesiaFSMMicronesia21.8332
6PalauPLWMicronesia17.8362
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.7961
8LesothoLSOSouthern Africa16.2367
9CyprusCYPWestern Asia14.5513
10FinlandFINNorthern Europe13.8623
11Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia13.8299
12San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe13.6448
13TongaTONPolynesia13.2868
14NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa13.2865
15IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.1713
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.8748
17GreeceGRCSouthern Europe12.8386
18PortugalPRTSouthern Europe12.8235
19FranceFRAWestern Europe12.8079
20MaltaMLTSouthern Europe12.7430
21EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa12.7058
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.6011
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe12.5459
24BotswanaBWASouthern Africa12.5239
25AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia12.5191

02In 2011

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Libya34.8404
  2. 2Tuvalu31.0649
  3. 3Kiribati30.0091
  4. 4Marshall Islands21.9048
  5. 5Micronesia21.8332

Lowest

  1. 179Equatorial Guinea0.7931
  2. 178India1.0987
  3. 177Myanmar1.3775
  4. 176Bangladesh1.8279
  5. 175Turkmenistan2.1774

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.9896. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

What changed between 2010 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −1countries joined / left
  • 177values changed, of 177 in both
  • 65 · 112rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Nauru16.6102 → 12.3650−4.2452
  • Eritrea8.8331 → 5.7882−3.0450
  • Tuvalu33.1846 → 31.0649−2.1197
  • Maldives12.6124 → 10.5674−2.0450
  • Brunei9.6081 → 7.9508−1.6573
+ Kiribati+ South Sudan− Syria

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 2011.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 179 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 (2011). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2011

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2011: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2011?

Libya, at 34.8404, of the 179 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2011 describe?

2011.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2011 cover?

179.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2011?

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, 2011 the newest?

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

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