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Public sector female employment, as a share of paid employment by occupational group: Professionals by country

Countries reporting
64
Highest
0.8377
Ethiopia
Lowest
0.0779
Colombia
Median
0.6524
Years covered
23
2000–2022
Data points
753

What the numbers show

Public sector female employment, as a share of paid employment by occupational group: Professionals is currently reported for 64 countries. The highest value is 0.8377 in Ethiopia; the lowest is 0.0779 in Colombia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.6524, and the mean is 0.6383.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 11.

Over the past decade 23 countries rose and 40 fell. The largest increase was in South Africa (up 44.2%), and the largest decrease in Colombia (down 32.1%).

Public sector female employment, as a share of paid employment by: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ethiopia 0.8377 2021 up 8.5% falling
2 Spain 0.7822 2018 down 1.1% flat
3 Tanzania 0.7786 2020 up 30.3% flat
4 Tunisia 0.7749 2015 down 9.6% flat
5 Moldova 0.7676 2015 up 10.1% rising
6 Zambia 0.7666 2015 down 6.8% flat
7 Russia 0.7661 2016 down 1.4% falling
8 Malta 0.7602 2018 up 11.2% rising
9 Belgium 0.7599 2018 down 3.9% falling
10 Iceland 0.7525 2013 down 4.3% flat
11 Cambodia 0.7418 2012 up 11.0% rising
12 Namibia 0.7401 2015 down 14.6% falling
13 Austria 0.7365 2018 down 0.2% flat
14 Paraguay 0.734 2021 up 4.6% falling
15 Greece 0.7311 2018 down 4.7% flat
16 Ireland 0.727 2017 down 7.9% falling
17 Sri Lanka 0.7221 2016 down 6.2% falling
18 Bolivia 0.7091 2021 down 0.2% falling
19 Italy 0.7075 2018 down 7.2% flat
20 Slovakia 0.7023 2017 down 6.6% falling
21 Czechia 0.7021 2018 up 7.1% flat
22 Croatia 0.6875 2018 up 11.5% falling
23 Mongolia 0.6818 2014 down 19.8% falling
24 Poland 0.6807 2017 down 14.9% falling
25 Turkey 0.679 2016 down 4.2% flat
26 Portugal 0.6747 2018 down 7.5% falling
27 Hungary 0.667 2018 down 12.1% falling
28 Serbia 0.6598 2018 up 3.5% flat
29 Guatemala 0.6584 2017 up 15.2% rising
30 Latvia 0.6573 2018 up 7.4% rising
31 Costa Rica 0.6551 2021 down 7.0% falling
32 Ecuador 0.6525 2017 up 17.8% rising
33 United Kingdom 0.6524 2017 down 13.1% falling
34 Peru 0.6457 2021 down 0.3% falling
35 Panama 0.6393 2019 up 3.6% flat
36 Morocco 0.6389 2009 — falling
37 Dominican Republic 0.6367 2019 up 9.8% rising
38 Palestine 0.6333 2017 down 12.7% falling
39 France 0.6268 2018 down 22.9% falling
40 Philippines 0.6243 2019 down 1.8% falling
41 Georgia 0.6205 2013 down 18.9% falling
42 Vietnam 0.6159 2019 down 22.9% falling
43 Bulgaria 0.6155 2018 up 27.7% rising
44 Mexico 0.6035 2017 up 23.0% falling
45 Switzerland 0.6016 2018 up 24.5% rising
46 Lithuania 0.6015 2018 up 2.7% falling
47 Finland 0.6008 2018 down 6.8% flat
48 Argentina 0.5918 2021 up 8.0% flat
49 Cyprus 0.5882 2018 down 17.7% falling
50 Uruguay 0.5838 2017 down 9.2% falling
51 South Africa 0.5778 2020 up 44.2% falling
52 Estonia 0.5778 2018 down 16.6% falling
53 Honduras 0.5726 2019 down 6.3% falling
54 El Salvador 0.5668 2021 up 2.8% flat
55 Brazil 0.5596 2021 down 10.6% flat
56 Cameroon 0.5328 2022 down 16.9% falling
57 Romania 0.5252 2018 up 38.8% falling
58 Australia 0.5167 2015 down 27.4% falling
59 Jordan 0.5097 2016 down 19.0% falling
60 Pakistan 0.4861 2020 down 17.4% falling
61 Luxembourg 0.4487 2018 down 23.5% falling
62 Chile 0.4387 2017 up 21.7% falling
63 United States 0.2861 2018 down 16.0% falling
64 Colombia 0.0779 2017 down 32.1% falling

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Indicator
Public sector female employment, as a share of paid employment by occupational group: Professionals
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
64 places, 753 data points, 2000–2022
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