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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2014

2014, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2014 covers 182 countries. Libya is highest, at 45.1073; Equatorial Guinea is lowest, at 1.0454. The middle country reads 8.0727. Against 2013, 182 values changed (105 up, 77 down), the same countries are covered.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2014

HighestLibya

45.1073

LowestEquatorial Guinea

1.0454

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, 2014, 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 182 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2014: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LibyaLBYNorthern Africa45.1073
2TuvaluTUVPolynesia35.6080
3KiribatiKIRMicronesia27.5564
4Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia22.1034
5MicronesiaFSMMicronesia21.8640
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.2342
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa15.9185
8NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa15.0623
9PalauPLWMicronesia15.0051
10FinlandFINNorthern Europe14.1012
11Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia13.9674
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe13.5559
13IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.4530
14CyprusCYPWestern Asia13.4050
15San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe13.3954
16ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa13.1431
17FranceFRAWestern Europe12.9550
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe12.9461
19TongaTONPolynesia12.7196
20AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia12.6939
21SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.6181
22TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa12.3511
23GreeceGRCSouthern Europe12.3378
24KuwaitKWTWestern Asia12.1594
25Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe12.0270

02In 2014

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Libya45.1073
  2. 2Tuvalu35.6080
  3. 3Kiribati27.5564
  4. 4Marshall Islands22.1034
  5. 5Micronesia21.8640

Lowest

  1. 182Equatorial Guinea1.0454
  2. 181India1.0746
  3. 180Somalia1.5365
  4. 179Bangladesh1.6532
  5. 178Nigeria1.8149

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 8.0727. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032013 → 2014

Since 2013

What changed between 2013 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 182values changed, of 182 in both
  • 105 · 77rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Eritrea6.7925 → 5.0706−1.7219
  • Honduras12.7647 → 11.4892−1.2755
  • Ukraine11.4456 → 10.2370−1.2085
  • Aruba10.7826 → 9.6244−1.1582
  • Sudan4.7346 → 3.5838−1.1508

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 2014.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 182 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 (2014). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2014 [data set], describing 2014. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2014

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2014: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2014?

Libya, at 45.1073, of the 182 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2014 describe?

2014.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2014 cover?

182.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2014?

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, 2014 the newest?

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

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