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Females, as a share of private paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 5 by country

Countries reporting
58
Highest
0.4198
Philippines
Lowest
0.0209
Palestine, State of
Median
0.2568
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
726

What the numbers show

Females, as a share of private paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 5 is currently reported for 58 countries. The highest value is 0.4198 in Philippines; the lowest is 0.0209 in Palestine, State of.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.2568, and the mean is 0.2552.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 20.

Over the past decade 39 countries rose and 19 fell. The largest increase was in Tanzania, United Republic of (up 95.3%), and the largest decrease in Palestine, State of (down 72.5%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Philippines 0.4198 2014 up 25.0% rising
2 Panama 0.4131 2021 up 18.0% rising
3 Colombia 0.3931 2020 up 6.3% flat
4 Namibia 0.3588 2015 down 4.9% falling
5 South Africa 0.3489 2019 down 5.0% rising
6 Lithuania 0.3482 2018 up 29.0% rising
7 Honduras 0.3336 2019 up 15.0% rising
8 Costa Rica 0.3317 2021 up 29.9% rising
9 Chile 0.3287 2015 up 7.0% rising
10 Romania 0.3225 2018 up 12.7% rising
11 Russian Federation 0.3219 2016 up 4.9% rising
12 Brazil 0.3209 2021 up 23.3% rising
13 Dominican Republic 0.3204 2019 up 5.5% rising
14 Latvia 0.3188 2018 up 8.0% flat
15 Bulgaria 0.311 2018 up 7.7% rising
16 Mongolia 0.3068 2021 up 6.7% falling
17 Cyprus 0.301 2018 up 62.3% rising
18 Estonia 0.3002 2018 up 22.7% flat
19 France 0.2996 2018 up 38.1% rising
20 Portugal 0.2882 2018 up 23.6% rising
21 El Salvador 0.2879 2021 down 6.8% flat
22 Uruguay 0.2767 2017 down 6.2% falling
23 Paraguay 0.27 2021 up 1.5% rising
24 Croatia 0.2677 2018 down 17.8% falling
25 Spain 0.2668 2018 up 23.8% rising
26 Greece 0.2618 2018 up 30.8% rising
27 Poland 0.2603 2017 down 12.9% falling
28 Ecuador 0.2595 2017 down 5.3% falling
29 Argentina 0.2592 2021 up 1.2% flat
30 Malta 0.2544 2018 up 47.1% rising
31 Viet Nam 0.2502 2019 down 7.0% flat
32 Hungary 0.2476 2018 down 17.7% falling
33 Finland 0.2462 2018 up 29.1% rising
34 Serbia 0.2445 2018 down 39.9% falling
35 Luxembourg 0.2415 2018 up 84.2% rising
36 Guatemala 0.2394 2017 up 1.7% rising
37 Slovakia 0.2375 2017 down 4.4% falling
38 Ireland 0.2374 2017 up 17.2% rising
39 Italy 0.2373 2018 up 7.9% falling
40 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.2299 2018 up 95.3% rising
41 Australia 0.2275 2015 up 33.1% rising
42 Belgium 0.2237 2018 up 14.2% rising
43 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.2184 2016 up 1.9% falling
44 Peru 0.2138 2021 down 2.4% flat
45 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.2077 2021 up 15.3% falling
46 Mexico 0.1934 2019 down 1.3% falling
47 Jordan 0.1854 2016 up 33.6% rising
48 Türkiye 0.1834 2010 up 69.9% rising
49 Czechia 0.1822 2018 down 1.4% falling
50 Austria 0.1813 2018 up 3.3% falling
51 Armenia 0.1752 2021 down 3.7% rising
52 Sri Lanka 0.1615 2016 down 18.0% rising
53 Switzerland 0.1608 2018 up 20.3% rising
54 Ethiopia 0.1598 2016 up 4.0% rising
55 Zambia 0.1453 2014 down 35.3% falling
56 Iceland 0.1374 2013 down 11.5% falling
57 Pakistan 0.0607 2020 up 68.4% rising
58 Palestine, State of 0.0209 2017 down 72.5% volatile

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Females, as a share of private paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 5
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
58 places, 726 data points, 2000–2021
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