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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2018

2018, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2018 covers 184 countries. Nauru is highest, at 35.84242; India is lowest, at 1.08868. The middle country reads 7.96151. Against 2017, 182 values changed (78 up, 104 down), the same countries are covered.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2018

HighestNauru

35.84242

LowestIndia

1.08868

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, 2018, 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 184 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2018: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NauruNRUMicronesia35.84242
2TuvaluTUVPolynesia33.43987
3KiribatiKIRMicronesia31.30125
4Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia21.73993
5LesothoLSOSouthern Africa18.78248
6KuwaitKWTWestern Asia18.64210
7MicronesiaFSMMicronesia18.54465
8Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia15.81885
9NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa15.80440
10PalauPLWMicronesia15.64667
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.10885
12IraqIRQWestern Asia14.28917
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe14.15988
14IcelandISLNorthern Europe14.15443
15EritreaERIEastern Africa14.11898
16AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia13.83030
17EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa13.61832
18TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa13.15486
19VanuatuVUTMelanesia12.73925
20SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.71274
21BotswanaBWASouthern Africa12.71263
22BoliviaBOLSouth America12.57138
23FranceFRAWestern Europe12.43796
24FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.39688
25BelgiumBELWestern Europe12.36090

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Nauru35.84242
  2. 2Tuvalu33.43987
  3. 3Kiribati31.30125
  4. 4Marshall Islands21.73993
  5. 5Lesotho18.78248

Lowest

  1. 184India1.08868
  2. 183Nigeria1.68412
  3. 182Bangladesh1.87115
  4. 181Sudan2.40479
  5. 180Equatorial Guinea2.41347

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.96151. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 182values changed, of 184 in both
  • 78 · 104rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

  • Kiribati26.69367 → 31.30125+4.60757
  • Vanuatu10.50409 → 12.73925+2.23516
  • Tuvalu31.81876 → 33.43987+1.62111
  • Lebanon10.28013 → 11.74277+1.46263
  • Nauru34.68299 → 35.84242+1.15942

Fell most

  • Zimbabwe13.92589 → 9.15380−4.77209
  • Eritrea18.47771 → 14.11898−4.35873
  • Dominica12.89883 → 10.52620−2.37263
  • Oman11.04488 → 9.13613−1.90875
  • Micronesia20.09576 → 18.54465−1.55111

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 2018.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 184 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 (2018). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2018

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2018?

Nauru, at 35.84242, of the 184 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2018 cover?

184.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2018?

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, 2018 the newest?

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

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