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Share of public paid employees with social security by country

Countries reporting
43
Highest
0.999
Uruguay
Lowest
0.1667
Australia
Median
0.9689
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
545

What the numbers show

Share of public paid employees with social security is currently reported for 43 countries. The highest value is 0.999 in Uruguay; the lowest is 0.1667 in Australia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.9689, and the mean is 0.8922.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6.

Over the past decade 29 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Bolivia, Plurinational State of (up 33.3%), and the largest decrease in Honduras (down 21.9%).

Share of public paid employees with social security: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Uruguay 0.999 2017 up 1.2% flat
2 Finland 0.998 2020 up 0.4% flat
3 Republic of Moldova 0.9969 2015 down 0.1% flat
4 Costa Rica 0.9964 2021 up 1.8% flat
5 Ecuador 0.9962 2017 up 12.0% rising
6 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.9957 2019 up 33.3% rising
7 Hungary 0.9928 2020 up 1.7% flat
8 Switzerland 0.9921 2020 up 0.6% flat
9 Belgium 0.9918 2020 up 0.9% flat
10 Croatia 0.9912 2020 up 0.2% flat
11 Türkiye 0.9904 2019 up 0.8% flat
12 Czechia 0.9877 2020 up 0.4% flat
13 Cyprus 0.9857 2020 up 0.9% flat
14 Malta 0.984 2020 up 1.7% flat
15 Portugal 0.9813 2020 up 1.5% flat
16 Greece 0.9788 2020 up 0.6% flat
17 Ireland 0.9786 2020 up 5.3% rising
18 Austria 0.9771 2020 up 1.8% flat
19 Serbia 0.9749 2020 down 0.9% flat
20 Spain 0.9746 2020 down 0.8% flat
21 Latvia 0.9708 2020 up 2.7% flat
22 Bulgaria 0.9689 2019 up 0.2% flat
23 Albania 0.9685 2012 up 2.8% flat
24 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.9615 2015 up 5.1% flat
25 El Salvador 0.9526 2021 up 5.2% flat
26 Morocco 0.9486 2009 — rising
27 Brazil 0.9431 2021 up 1.2% flat
28 Slovakia 0.943 2020 down 2.9% flat
29 Luxembourg 0.9403 2020 down 5.0% flat
30 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.9309 2018 up 2.6% flat
31 Chile 0.9115 2017 down 0.8% flat
32 Estonia 0.9071 2020 down 8.6% flat
33 Italy 0.9058 2020 down 7.8% falling
34 Argentina 0.8963 2021 up 0.7% rising
35 Guatemala 0.8418 2017 up 4.0% rising
36 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 0.8281 2006 down 9.1% falling
37 Peru 0.8054 2021 up 0.8% rising
38 Paraguay 0.7772 2021 down 2.0% flat
39 South Africa 0.7349 2020 down 9.0% falling
40 Zambia 0.7087 2015 down 20.6% falling
41 France 0.3497 2019 up 29.6% rising
42 Honduras 0.2414 2016 down 21.9% flat
43 Australia 0.1667 2010 up 19.7% falling

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Indicator
Share of public paid employees with social security
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
43 places, 545 data points, 2000–2021
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