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Firms offering formal training by country
What share of firms give their workers formal training?
Of the 172 countries compared in the 2026 edition, China had the highest reading, 79.119%, and Saudi Arabia had the lowest reading, 1.420%. In the middle country the figure was 31.797%. 9 readings from before 2016 are listed but not compared.
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Part ofWork & Labour
Firms offering formal training · the 2026 edition
Context statistic
Highest of 172China
79.119%01the 2026 edition · values only
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 172 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: Seebeer Edited by Nicholasjf21 · Public domain, greyscale
2Photo: eGuide Travel · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
3Photo: john mcsporran from Trossachs, Scotland · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
Lowest in the 2026 edition
Saudi Arabia1.420%
Qatar2.586%
India2.882%
Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
Highest on each continent
- Africa
South Sudan64.925% - Americas
Guatemala72.219% - AsiaChina79.119%
- Europe
Czechia73.866% - Oceania
Papua New Guinea75.094% - Every region
02Every measured country
Firms offering formal training on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value — the better end.
- 1.420–15.346%
- 15.455–25.951%
- 26.548–36.540%
- 36.779–44.882%
- 45.128–79.119%
- Hatched: a reading from before 2016, listed but not compared (9)
- No reading in the 2026 edition
- Oceania
42.908%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 21 members
Papua New Guinea75.094%
Kiribati12.138%Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Europe
40.108%
the middle country, of 40 measured · 49 members
Czechia73.866%
Albania11.433%Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Americas
39.419%
the middle country, of 28 measured · 48 members
Guatemala72.219%
Barbados8.954%Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Africa
25.602%
the middle country, of 50 measured · 55 members
South Sudan64.925%
Egypt7.722%Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Asia
19.335%
the middle country, of 45 measured · 52 members
China79.119%Saudi Arabia1.420%Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Every region
22 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Western Europe
57.631%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Luxembourg66.141%
Austria31.494%Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- Eastern Asia
49.797%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 8 members
China79.119%
South Korea16.168%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Northern Europe
47.228%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
Ireland62.377%
Denmark32.730%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Central America
42.552%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 8 members
Guatemala72.219%
Panama14.955%Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- South America
37.530%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 12 members
Peru61.420%
Suriname15.126%Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- Caribbean
37.261%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 24 members
Saint Lucia58.935%Barbados8.954%Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Southern Africa
33.109%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Namibia60.162%
South Africa7.896%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
- Southern Europe
27.934%
the middle country, of 13 measured · 17 members
Spain73.362%Albania11.433%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- Eastern Africa
27.436%
the middle country, of 17 measured · 19 members
South Sudan64.925%
Ethiopia8.839%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- South-eastern Asia
26.583%
the middle country, of 11 measured · 11 members
Singapore42.943%
Myanmar5.940%Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Eastern Europe
26.192%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 10 members
Czechia73.866%
Russia11.786%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Middle Africa
25.384%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members
Equatorial Guinea45.128%
DR Congo17.349%Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- Western Africa
22.500%
the middle country, of 16 measured · 16 members
Ghana49.842%
Mali11.639%Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- Central Asia
19.335%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Turkmenistan26.548%
Kazakhstan12.101%Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Western Asia
16.757%
the middle country, of 15 measured · 19 members
Cyprus43.097%Saudi Arabia1.420%Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Southern Asia
13.370%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
Maldives42.425%India2.882%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
New Zealand66.045%
Australia57.741%Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Melanesia
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
Papua New Guinea75.094%
Solomon Islands35.277%Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.
- Micronesia
1 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Kiribati.
Kiribati12.138%Highest and lowest reading in Micronesia.
- Northern Africa
3 of 6 measured — too few for a middle: Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia.
Tunisia26.736%Egypt7.722%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- Northern America
2 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, United States.
Canada55.933%
United States40.760%Highest and lowest reading in Northern America.
- Polynesia
2 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Samoa, Tonga.
Samoa20.780%
Tonga18.892%Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.
03The whole field at once
The spread
172 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 31.797%; a quarter are above 42.356%, and a quarter below 19.225%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 181 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. No rank or position is shown: too many countries share the same value for an order to mean anything. Formal training means a structured programme; a firm that teaches its staff on the job without one counts as not training, which weighs against small firms. A higher share is therefore not always a better result, and no positions are shown. Survey years differ between countries — check the year beside each reading.
Showing 25 of 181 countries
Values for the 2026 edition.
05In this edition
Firms offering formal training in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading
79.119%
Firms offering formal training to permanent full-time workers (%)
Lowest reading
1.420%
Firms offering formal training to permanent full-time workers (%)
06The measure
About firms offering formal training
This is the share of private firms that gave their permanent, full-time workers formal training in the past year, from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys. It shows how far employers invest in the skills of the people they already employ.
What the number is: Firms offering formal training to permanent full-time workers (%).
07Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Work & Labour, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Moves with
Where firms offering formal training is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Firms with Their Own WebsiteWorld Bank Group · 172 countries in commonρ 0.53
- Women's Empowerment IndexUNDP Human Development Report Office and UN Women · 111 countries in commonρ 0.51
- Anthropic AI Usage IndexAnthropic · 117 countries in commonρ 0.51
Moves against
Where firms offering formal training is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Social Institutions and Gender IndexKeyOECD · 136 countries in commonρ −0.47
- Informal Employment RateILO · 89 countries in commonρ −0.44
- Average Household SizeUN DESA Population Division · 125 countries in commonρ −0.44
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 377 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
08Keep reading
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09Questions
Firms offering formal training: questions and answers
Which country has the highest firms offering formal training?
China, at 79.119%, among the 172 countries compared in the 2026 edition.
Which country has the lowest firms offering formal training?
Saudi Arabia, at 1.420%, among the 172 countries compared in the 2026 edition.
How many countries does the Firms Offering Formal Training cover?
172 in the 2026 edition, and 181 at least once across all editions.
What is the world average firms offering formal training?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 172 compared in the 2026 edition, the figure was 31.797%.
Is this World Bank Group’s own ranking?
No ranking is shown. World Bank Group publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything, so none is derived.
How often is the Firms Offering Formal Training published?
This site holds one edition, describing 2026.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From World Bank Group, under CC BY 4.0. World Bank Enterprise Surveys on Data360, read from the full-precision bulk file, one reading per country from its most recent survey. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
10Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Firms Offering Formal Training — World Bank Group
World Bank Enterprise Surveys on Data360, read from the full-precision bulk file, one reading per country from its most recent survey.
Newest edition
Report year 2026Data year not recorded
Cite the source as: World Bank. Enterprise Surveys. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-10-03.
How this page reads the numbers
- No rank or position is shown: World Bank Group publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- The file gives each country’s most recent reading, so the rows are from different years. Readings from before 2016 are listed but left out of every comparison on this page.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- China — Seebeer Edited by Nicholasjf21, Public domain
- Papua New Guinea — eGuide Travel, CC BY 2.0
- Czechia — john mcsporran from Trossachs, Scotland, CC BY 2.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Firms offering formal training by country: Firms Offering Formal Training, data from World Bank Group. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/firms-formal-training