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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2012

2012, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2012 covers 180 countries. Tuvalu is highest, at 32.65465; Equatorial Guinea is lowest, at 0.87327. The middle country reads 7.97599. Against 2011, 178 values changed (104 up, 74 down), 1 country joined.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2012

HighestTuvalu

32.65465

LowestEquatorial Guinea

0.87327

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, 2012, 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 180 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2012: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1TuvaluTUVPolynesia32.65465
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia29.11395
3Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia21.37224
4MicronesiaFSMMicronesia20.68959
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.60362
6PalauPLWMicronesia16.47009
7LibyaLBYNorthern Africa16.03444
8LesothoLSOSouthern Africa15.64784
9CyprusCYPWestern Asia14.63124
10FinlandFINNorthern Europe14.20634
11San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe14.12406
12BotswanaBWASouthern Africa13.69090
13Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia13.68484
14IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.33385
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe13.01193
16AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia12.92259
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.86684
18FranceFRAWestern Europe12.85386
19BelgiumBELWestern Europe12.72747
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.54079
21MaltaMLTSouthern Europe12.52909
22SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.51537
23Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe12.49817
24NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa12.48709
25Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean12.31889

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tuvalu32.65465
  2. 2Kiribati29.11395
  3. 3Marshall Islands21.37224
  4. 4Micronesia20.68959
  5. 5Denmark16.60362

Lowest

  1. 180Equatorial Guinea0.87327
  2. 179India1.07694
  3. 178Bangladesh1.68100
  4. 177Myanmar1.98958
  5. 176Nigeria2.04510

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.97599. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 178values changed, of 179 in both
  • 104 · 74rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Libya34.84045 → 16.03444−18.80600
  • Tonga13.28684 → 11.40879−1.87805
  • Eswatini12.70582 → 11.27587−1.42994
  • Palau17.83620 → 16.47009−1.36612
  • Iraq12.44297 → 11.21075−1.23222
+ Papua New Guinea

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 2012.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 180 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 (2012). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2012

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2012?

Tuvalu, at 32.65465, of the 180 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2012 cover?

180.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2012?

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, 2012 the newest?

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

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