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

Countries reporting
59
Highest
0.7776
Iceland
Lowest
0.2131
Pakistan
Median
0.548
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
726

What the numbers show

Females, as a share of public paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 4 is currently reported for 59 countries. The highest value is 0.7776 in Iceland; the lowest is 0.2131 in Pakistan.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.548, and the mean is 0.553.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4.

Over the past decade 37 countries rose and 22 fell. The largest increase was in Tanzania, United Republic of (up 76.5%), and the largest decrease in Cyprus (down 26.8%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Iceland 0.7776 2013 up 13.4% rising
2 Lithuania 0.7604 2018 up 8.7% rising
3 Finland 0.748 2018 up 7.4% rising
4 Estonia 0.7409 2018 down 3.7% flat
5 Hungary 0.7303 2018 up 7.5% rising
6 Latvia 0.7195 2018 up 3.2% flat
7 Poland 0.7137 2017 up 1.1% flat
8 Ireland 0.7134 2017 up 26.0% rising
9 France 0.6992 2018 up 15.0% rising
10 Philippines 0.6955 2014 up 8.2% flat
11 Czechia 0.6851 2018 down 3.3% flat
12 Slovakia 0.6508 2017 down 7.3% flat
13 Malta 0.6484 2018 up 41.4% rising
14 Portugal 0.6288 2018 down 0.7% flat
15 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.6281 2016 up 10.1% rising
16 Costa Rica 0.6276 2021 up 7.8% rising
17 Croatia 0.6273 2018 down 2.0% falling
18 Bulgaria 0.6266 2018 up 13.7% rising
19 Namibia 0.6172 2015 up 2.5% flat
20 Belgium 0.6081 2018 up 8.2% rising
21 Paraguay 0.5992 2021 up 15.9% rising
22 Switzerland 0.5979 2018 up 14.3% rising
23 Panama 0.5952 2021 down 0.1% flat
24 Honduras 0.5712 2019 down 5.8% flat
25 South Africa 0.5696 2019 up 5.9% flat
26 Austria 0.5684 2018 up 4.1% rising
27 Dominican Republic 0.555 2019 down 6.3% rising
28 Spain 0.5501 2018 up 9.4% rising
29 Russian Federation 0.5487 2016 down 3.5% rising
30 Italy 0.548 2018 up 4.1% falling
31 Chile 0.5465 2015 up 8.9% rising
32 Mongolia 0.5452 2021 down 1.9% flat
33 Brazil 0.5338 2021 down 0.1% rising
34 Serbia 0.53 2018 down 1.6% falling
35 Viet Nam 0.5247 2019 up 18.3% rising
36 Romania 0.5242 2018 down 17.2% falling
37 Mexico 0.5231 2019 up 2.3% flat
38 Australia 0.5192 2015 down 5.1% flat
39 Colombia 0.5171 2020 up 1.7% flat
40 Sri Lanka 0.4961 2016 down 1.6% rising
41 Armenia 0.4946 2021 up 19.3% rising
42 Republic of Moldova 0.4938 2012 down 21.6% falling
43 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.4924 2021 up 14.9% rising
44 Uruguay 0.4895 2017 up 13.4% rising
45 Peru 0.4824 2021 up 9.2% flat
46 El Salvador 0.4788 2021 down 12.1% falling
47 Guatemala 0.4653 2017 up 14.6% flat
48 Argentina 0.4527 2021 down 4.4% flat
49 Ecuador 0.4525 2017 up 14.2% rising
50 Greece 0.4448 2018 down 6.0% falling
51 Luxembourg 0.4417 2018 down 0.2% rising
52 Georgia 0.4245 2013 down 13.3% rising
53 Zambia 0.4171 2014 up 20.3% rising
54 Cyprus 0.4113 2018 down 26.8% falling
55 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.39 2020 up 76.5% rising
56 Ethiopia 0.3488 2016 up 6.1% flat
57 Palestine, State of 0.346 2017 up 41.3% rising
58 Türkiye 0.2764 2010 up 39.1% rising
59 Pakistan 0.2131 2020 up 55.0% rising

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Females, as a share of public paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 4
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
59 places, 726 data points, 2000–2021
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