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Females, as a share of public paid employees by industry: Health by country

Countries reporting
27
Highest
0.9158
Paraguay
Lowest
0.3421
South Africa
Median
0.6972
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
305

What the numbers show

Females, as a share of public paid employees by industry: Health is currently reported for 27 countries. The highest value is 0.9158 in Paraguay; the lowest is 0.3421 in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.6972, and the mean is 0.6637.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 13 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Paraguay (up 21.7%), and the largest decrease in South Africa (down 33.9%).

Females, as a share of public paid employees by industry: Health: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Paraguay 0.9158 2010 up 21.7% rising
2 Armenia 0.8944 2021 down 0.6% flat
3 Republic of Moldova 0.8368 2015 down 1.2% flat
4 Ukraine 0.8322 2013 down 0.1% flat
5 Dominican Republic 0.8259 2019 up 14.2% flat
6 Russian Federation 0.764 2011 up 13.4% rising
7 Honduras 0.7599 2016 up 12.7% rising
8 Australia 0.7558 2015 up 0.1% flat
9 Brazil 0.7447 2017 down 4.2% flat
10 Uruguay 0.732 2017 down 2.0% flat
11 Chile 0.7289 2017 up 4.4% flat
12 Ecuador 0.7168 2017 up 0.2% flat
13 Peru 0.7058 2017 up 12.2% flat
14 Colombia 0.6972 2017 down 7.6% flat
15 El Salvador 0.6932 2014 up 3.9% flat
16 Argentina 0.6579 2017 down 7.2% flat
17 Philippines 0.6561 2019 down 12.8% falling
18 Sri Lanka 0.6183 2016 up 1.3% flat
19 Guatemala 0.5994 2017 down 19.4% falling
20 Costa Rica 0.582 2015 down 1.8% flat
21 Ethiopia 0.5569 2016 down 0.0% rising
22 Morocco 0.5401 2009 — flat
23 Jordan 0.5171 2016 up 11.0% rising
24 Zambia 0.4794 2015 down 2.5% falling
25 Pakistan 0.3925 2020 up 9.7% rising
26 Palestine, State of 0.3734 2017 up 12.5% rising
27 South Africa 0.3421 2020 down 33.9% rising

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Indicator
Females, as a share of public paid employees by industry: Health
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
27 places, 305 data points, 2000–2021
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