Females, as a share of private paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 2 by country

Countries reporting
60
Highest
0.6067
Dominican Republic
Lowest
0.0712
Pakistan
Median
0.4704
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
733

What the numbers show

Females, as a share of private paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 2 is currently reported for 60 countries. The highest value is 0.6067 in Dominican Republic; the lowest is 0.0712 in Pakistan.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.4704, and the mean is 0.4373.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 9.

Over the past decade 27 countries rose and 33 fell. The largest increase was in Armenia (up 36.1%), and the largest decrease in United Kingdom (down 19.7%).

Females, as a share of private paid employees by wage quintile: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Dominican Republic 0.6067 2019 up 20.3% rising
2 Australia 0.5974 2015 down 2.8% flat
3 Austria 0.5836 2018 up 4.4% falling
4 Moldova 0.5834 2012 up 8.2% rising
5 Ethiopia 0.58 2016 down 15.1% falling
6 Armenia 0.5752 2021 up 36.1% rising
7 Switzerland 0.5679 2018 down 6.1% falling
8 Spain 0.5527 2018 up 5.1% rising
9 Uruguay 0.5506 2017 up 0.8% flat
10 Russia 0.5447 2016 up 9.3% flat
11 Portugal 0.5337 2018 down 3.5% rising
12 Cyprus 0.5311 2018 down 15.3% falling
13 Lithuania 0.5262 2018 down 6.7% flat
14 Estonia 0.5241 2018 down 14.6% falling
15 Latvia 0.5236 2018 up 0.9% falling
16 Ireland 0.5208 2017 down 4.7% flat
17 Brazil 0.5164 2021 up 0.8% rising
18 Italy 0.5121 2018 up 8.6% rising
19 Czechia 0.5033 2018 down 2.8% flat
20 South Africa 0.5008 2019 up 11.2% falling
21 Finland 0.4916 2018 down 14.0% falling
22 Argentina 0.4871 2021 up 6.4% rising
23 Poland 0.486 2017 down 5.5% flat
24 Slovakia 0.4859 2017 down 7.5% falling
25 Croatia 0.4859 2018 up 10.0% flat
26 Greece 0.4818 2018 down 0.7% flat
27 United Kingdom 0.4811 2016 down 19.7% falling
28 Serbia 0.4782 2018 down 8.7% flat
29 Mongolia 0.4774 2021 up 3.9% flat
30 Namibia 0.472 2015 down 0.3% falling
31 France 0.4687 2018 up 0.2% falling
32 Iceland 0.4669 2013 down 15.7% falling
33 Bulgaria 0.4649 2018 down 13.2% falling
34 Belgium 0.4551 2018 up 2.2% falling
35 Hungary 0.4502 2018 down 3.9% falling
36 Romania 0.4417 2018 down 4.6% falling
37 Chile 0.4346 2015 up 14.0% rising
38 Peru 0.42 2021 down 16.7% rising
39 Luxembourg 0.4144 2018 up 17.0% flat
40 Vietnam 0.4111 2019 down 8.6% falling
41 Bolivia 0.3871 2021 up 6.3% rising
42 Sri Lanka 0.3797 2016 down 7.3% flat
43 Georgia 0.3787 2013 up 7.0% falling
44 Colombia 0.3694 2020 down 4.0% rising
45 Mexico 0.3615 2019 down 2.3% rising
46 Costa Rica 0.3603 2021 down 7.3% flat
47 Paraguay 0.3578 2021 down 5.9% falling
48 Malta 0.3537 2018 up 9.5% flat
49 Ecuador 0.3524 2017 down 0.7% rising
50 Tanzania 0.3443 2020 up 3.0% rising
51 El Salvador 0.3374 2017 down 10.5% flat
52 Honduras 0.3344 2019 up 34.2% flat
53 Philippines 0.332 2014 up 17.5% flat
54 Panama 0.3317 2021 down 15.8% rising
55 Zambia 0.266 2014 up 33.4% rising
56 Turkey 0.2445 2010 up 1.5% flat
57 Guatemala 0.2146 2017 down 15.8% falling
58 Jordan 0.1538 2013 down 11.9% falling
59 Palestine 0.1204 2017 down 18.9% rising
60 Pakistan 0.0712 2020 up 27.7% falling

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Females, as a share of private paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 2
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
60 places, 733 data points, 2000–2021
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