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Public Sector Wage Bill, 2022

2022, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2022 covers 168 countries. Nauru is highest, at 42.6451; India is lowest, at 0.9773. The middle country reads 7.9748. Against 2021, 165 values changed (49 up, 116 down), 8 left.

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Public Sector Wage Bill · Data for 2022

HighestNauru

42.6451

LowestIndia

0.9773

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, 2022, 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 168 countries · select a heading to sort

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2022: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NauruNRUMicronesia42.6451
2TuvaluTUVPolynesia31.3127
3Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia22.3971
4LesothoLSOSouthern Africa19.5322
5MicronesiaFSMMicronesia18.0481
6KuwaitKWTWestern Asia16.8344
7VanuatuVUTMelanesia16.6046
8EritreaERIEastern Africa16.5396
9TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa15.0569
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe14.8505
11KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia14.7336
12NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa14.7288
13TongaTONPolynesia14.6151
14MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa14.5096
15DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe14.4348
16BotswanaBWASouthern Africa13.8613
17Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean13.7238
18SamoaWSMPolynesia13.6511
19Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia13.2045
20BoliviaBOLSouth America12.9944
21CyprusCYPWestern Asia12.6070
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.5567
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.4271
24FranceFRAWestern Europe12.4178
25BelgiumBELWestern Europe12.2840

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Nauru42.6451
  2. 2Tuvalu31.3127
  3. 3Marshall Islands22.3971
  4. 4Lesotho19.5322
  5. 5Micronesia18.0481

Lowest

  1. 168India0.9773
  2. 167Venezuela1.4338
  3. 166Bangladesh1.6069
  4. 165Nigeria1.6879
  5. 164Equatorial Guinea2.0763

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.9748. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −8countries joined / left
  • 165values changed, of 168 in both
  • 49 · 116rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Kuwait21.4397 → 16.8344−4.6053
  • Iraq14.1591 → 10.7050−3.4541
  • Saudi Arabia15.8591 → 13.2045−2.6546
  • Brunei10.5674 → 7.9752−2.5922
  • Guyana4.8359 → 2.9060−1.9299
− Bhutan− Canada− Honduras− Japan− Kiribati− Mongolia− San Marino− Ukraine

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 2022.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 168 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 (2022). Public Sector Wage Bill, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/public-wage-bill/2022

0623 held

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07Questions

Public Sector Wage Bill, 2022: questions and answers

Which country has the highest public sector wage bill in Public Sector Wage Bill, 2022?

Nauru, at 42.6451, of the 168 countries in the file.

What year does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2022 describe?

2022.

How many countries does Public Sector Wage Bill, 2022 cover?

168.

Where can I download Public Sector Wage Bill, 2022?

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, 2022 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-11, when it was read from the publisher.

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