Statizoid

Females, as a share of public paid employees by occupation: Medical workers by country

Countries reporting
25
Highest
0.9301
Russian Federation
Lowest
0.0744
Peru
Median
0.639
Years covered
21
2000–2020
Data points
272

What the numbers show

Females, as a share of public paid employees by occupation: Medical workers is currently reported for 25 countries. The highest value is 0.9301 in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0.0744 in Peru.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.639, and the mean is 0.5841.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 12.

Over the past decade 12 countries rose and 12 fell. The largest increase was in Jordan (up 43.4%), and the largest decrease in Mexico (down 19.9%).

Females, as a share of public paid employees by occupation: Medical: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Russian Federation 0.9301 2016 up 17.5% rising
2 Uruguay 0.7864 2016 up 32.4% rising
3 Sri Lanka 0.7673 2016 up 15.4% rising
4 Ecuador 0.7612 2017 up 29.7% rising
5 Dominican Republic 0.7189 2015 down 10.4% rising
6 Philippines 0.7188 2019 up 4.4% rising
7 Australia 0.7107 2015 down 6.3% falling
8 South Africa 0.7105 2020 down 1.7% flat
9 Brazil 0.6916 2016 up 10.7% rising
10 Georgia 0.6717 2013 down 3.0% falling
11 Republic of Moldova 0.6608 2015 up 2.7% rising
12 Chile 0.6604 2017 down 5.5% rising
13 Honduras 0.639 2019 down 3.9% rising
14 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.605 2017 — rising
15 Paraguay 0.5998 2010 down 19.9% flat
16 Viet Nam 0.5563 2019 up 22.2% rising
17 Costa Rica 0.5222 2012 down 8.9% flat
18 Jordan 0.5196 2016 up 43.4% rising
19 El Salvador 0.4814 2017 down 15.0% rising
20 United States of America 0.4617 2018 down 2.2% falling
21 Palestine, State of 0.3763 2017 up 18.1% rising
22 Ethiopia 0.3695 2016 up 7.5% rising
23 Pakistan 0.3348 2014 up 24.9% rising
24 Mexico 0.2743 2019 down 19.9% falling
25 Peru 0.0744 2016 down 14.1% volatile

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Females, as a share of public paid employees by occupation: Medical by country. Statizoid. Retrieved 02 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/females-as-a-share-of-public-paid-employees-by-occupation-medical-workers/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/females-as-a-share-of-public-paid-employees-by-occupation-medical-workers/">Females, as a share of public paid employees by occupation: Medical by country</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Females, as a share of public paid employees by occupation: Medical workers
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
25 places, 272 data points, 2000–2020
Last refreshed