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Females, as a share of private paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 4 by country

Countries reporting
59
Highest
0.4969
Mongolia
Lowest
0.0342
Pakistan
Median
0.3075
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
734

What the numbers show

Females, as a share of private paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 4 is currently reported for 59 countries. The highest value is 0.4969 in Mongolia; the lowest is 0.0342 in Pakistan.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.3075, and the mean is 0.2948.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 15.

Over the past decade 42 countries rose and 17 fell. The largest increase was in Tanzania, United Republic of (up 95.5%), and the largest decrease in Sri Lanka (down 31.2%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Mongolia 0.4969 2021 up 30.0% flat
2 Georgia 0.4584 2013 up 18.5% rising
3 Bulgaria 0.4267 2018 up 27.0% rising
4 Luxembourg 0.4228 2018 up 39.2% rising
5 Australia 0.3827 2015 up 19.6% rising
6 Cyprus 0.3743 2018 up 46.0% rising
7 Russian Federation 0.3646 2016 down 6.8% rising
8 Estonia 0.3584 2018 up 18.3% rising
9 Latvia 0.3519 2018 up 4.6% flat
10 Uruguay 0.3473 2017 up 5.5% falling
11 South Africa 0.3469 2019 up 10.0% rising
12 Colombia 0.3459 2020 down 2.6% flat
13 Chile 0.3415 2015 up 3.8% flat
14 Honduras 0.3409 2019 down 6.0% flat
15 Portugal 0.3409 2018 up 35.3% rising
16 Serbia 0.3361 2018 down 5.8% flat
17 Namibia 0.3345 2015 down 13.3% falling
18 Ireland 0.3336 2017 up 0.6% rising
19 Panama 0.3325 2021 up 13.7% rising
20 Dominican Republic 0.3324 2019 up 16.7% rising
21 Poland 0.3322 2017 up 7.7% flat
22 Brazil 0.3313 2021 up 7.1% rising
23 Spain 0.3276 2018 up 24.7% rising
24 El Salvador 0.3254 2021 down 9.2% flat
25 Lithuania 0.3203 2018 up 8.2% rising
26 Malta 0.3189 2018 up 11.4% flat
27 Greece 0.3186 2018 up 20.5% rising
28 Croatia 0.3171 2018 down 13.0% falling
29 Philippines 0.3158 2014 down 1.7% flat
30 France 0.3075 2018 up 0.0% rising
31 Costa Rica 0.3022 2021 up 11.8% rising
32 Hungary 0.3011 2018 down 8.8% falling
33 Romania 0.3007 2018 down 0.2% falling
34 Viet Nam 0.2979 2019 up 14.0% rising
35 Argentina 0.2951 2021 up 2.3% flat
36 Czechia 0.2822 2018 up 22.4% falling
37 Armenia 0.2819 2021 up 27.0% rising
38 Finland 0.2818 2018 up 3.4% flat
39 Italy 0.2815 2018 up 10.7% flat
40 Slovakia 0.2771 2017 up 4.1% falling
41 Paraguay 0.2749 2021 down 5.5% rising
42 Ethiopia 0.2683 2016 up 10.2% flat
43 Ecuador 0.2671 2017 up 10.8% rising
44 Belgium 0.2636 2018 up 5.7% flat
45 Iceland 0.2632 2013 up 9.3% flat
46 Peru 0.2563 2021 down 13.9% falling
47 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.2519 2020 up 95.5% rising
48 Guatemala 0.2496 2017 down 11.8% falling
49 Switzerland 0.2371 2018 up 19.4% rising
50 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.235 2016 down 16.6% falling
51 Mexico 0.2298 2019 up 1.8% falling
52 Austria 0.2184 2018 up 4.9% falling
53 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.1992 2021 up 16.2% rising
54 Zambia 0.1894 2014 up 35.2% rising
55 Türkiye 0.1421 2010 up 4.3% rising
56 Sri Lanka 0.1321 2016 down 31.2% falling
57 Jordan 0.1259 2016 down 4.9% rising
58 Palestine, State of 0.0715 2017 down 12.3% rising
59 Pakistan 0.0342 2020 up 45.0% rising

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Females, as a share of private paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 4
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
59 places, 734 data points, 2000–2021
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