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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2021

2021, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2021 covers 176 countries. Nauru is highest, at 38.67652; Venezuela is lowest, at 0.35844. The middle country reads 8.60324. Against 2020, 171 values changed (33 up, 138 down), 5 left.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2021

HighestNauru

38.67652

LowestVenezuela

0.35844

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, 2021, 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 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2021: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NauruNRUMicronesia38.67652
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia38.61747
3TuvaluTUVPolynesia23.54645
4Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia22.55997
5KuwaitKWTWestern Asia21.43973
6MicronesiaFSMMicronesia17.58038
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa16.74606
8NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa16.19222
9VanuatuVUTMelanesia16.04593
10EritreaERIEastern Africa15.89165
11Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia15.85912
12IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.67463
13TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa15.41361
14BotswanaBWASouthern Africa15.13102
15DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe14.89180
16TongaTONPolynesia14.86321
17Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean14.20278
18IraqIRQWestern Asia14.15913
19MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa14.03549
20BoliviaBOLSouth America13.35777
21NorwayNORNorthern Europe13.26558
22CyprusCYPWestern Asia12.81457
23SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.67165
24FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.65238
25SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.53737

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Nauru38.67652
  2. 2Kiribati38.61747
  3. 3Tuvalu23.54645
  4. 4Marshall Islands22.55997
  5. 5Kuwait21.43973

Lowest

  1. 176Venezuela0.35844
  2. 175India1.03387
  3. 174Bangladesh1.66757
  4. 173Nigeria1.73021
  5. 172Sudan1.92499

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 8.60324. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −5countries joined / left
  • 171values changed, of 176 in both
  • 33 · 138rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

Rose most

  • Kiribati32.69490 → 38.61747+5.92257
  • South Sudan3.09670 → 5.25875+2.16205
  • Tonga13.27873 → 14.86321+1.58448
  • Mali6.16764 → 7.42413+1.25649
  • Samoa11.16862 → 12.34273+1.17411

Fell most

  • Tuvalu31.42288 → 23.54645−7.87643
  • Kuwait27.44282 → 21.43973−6.00310
  • Iraq19.84237 → 14.15913−5.68325
  • Maldives14.25401 → 10.82578−3.42823
  • Saudi Arabia18.75571 → 15.85912−2.89658
− Afghanistan− Hong Kong− Lebanon− Macau− Uzbekistan

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 2021.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 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 (2021). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2021

0623 held

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2021?

Nauru, at 38.67652, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2021 cover?

176.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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