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

Public sector employment, as a share of paid employment, by occupational group: Professionals, reported by Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators in the World Bank Open Data catalog.

📅 2021📏 %11 entries
  1. 🇪🇹Ethiopia0.87%
  2. 🇵🇾Paraguay0.71%
  3. 🇧🇴Bolivia0.68%
  4. 🇦🇲Armenia0.66%
  5. 🇵🇪Peru0.62%
  6. 🇹🇭Thailand0.58%
  7. 🇬🇭Ghana0.56%
  8. 🇦🇷Argentina0.56%
  9. 🇨🇷Costa Rica0.54%
  10. 🇧🇷Brazil0.50%
  11. 🇸🇻El Salvador0.47%
Stems start at zero, so the length of each stem is the entry’s value.
1
🇪🇹Ethiopia
0.87%
2
🇵🇾Paraguay
0.71%
3
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.68%
4
🇦🇲Armenia
0.66%
5
🇵🇪Peru
0.62%
6
🇹🇭Thailand
0.58%
7
🇬🇭Ghana
0.56%
8
🇦🇷Argentina
0.56%
9
🇨🇷Costa Rica
0.54%
10
🇧🇷Brazil
0.50%
11
🇸🇻El Salvador
0.47%

Highlights

As of 2021, Ethiopia ranks first with 0.87%, followed by Paraguay (0.71%) and Bolivia (0.68%).

Across 11 countries and territories, values run from 0.87% (Ethiopia) to 0.47% (El Salvador), with a median of 0.58%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from the Americas, 2 from Africa and 2 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Public sector employment, as a share of paid employment, by occupational group: Professionals, 2021. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Public sector employment, as a share of paid employment, by occupational group: Professionals · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026