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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2019

2019, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2019 covers 184 countries. Nauru is highest, at 39.6855; Venezuela is lowest, at 0.3584. The middle country reads 7.9489. Against 2018, 184 values changed (108 up, 76 down), the same countries are covered.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2019

HighestNauru

39.6855

LowestVenezuela

0.3584

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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NauruNRUMicronesia39.6855
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia33.7279
3TuvaluTUVPolynesia29.9299
4Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia21.5747
5KuwaitKWTWestern Asia20.6206
6MicronesiaFSMMicronesia19.0061
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa17.4296
8Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia16.7576
9NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa15.9632
10PalauPLWMicronesia15.8281
11EritreaERIEastern Africa15.4000
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.0800
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe14.7932
14IraqIRQWestern Asia14.7129
15BotswanaBWASouthern Africa14.6185
16IcelandISLNorthern Europe14.2039
17TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa13.6786
18AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia13.4368
19VanuatuVUTMelanesia13.2807
20LebanonLBNWestern Asia12.6521
21SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.5938
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.4774
23BoliviaBOLSouth America12.4298
24EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa12.4134
25Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean12.3770

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Nauru39.6855
  2. 2Kiribati33.7279
  3. 3Tuvalu29.9299
  4. 4Marshall Islands21.5747
  5. 5Kuwait20.6206

Lowest

  1. 184Venezuela0.3584
  2. 183India1.1051
  3. 182Nigeria1.6030
  4. 181Bangladesh1.8609
  5. 180Somalia2.5022

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.9489. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 184values changed, of 184 in both
  • 108 · 76rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2019.

  • 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 (2019). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2019

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2019?

Nauru, at 39.6855, of the 184 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2019 cover?

184.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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