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Public sector employment, as a share of paid employment by location: Urban

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

📅 2021📏 %13 entries
  1. 🇪🇹Ethiopia0.50%
  2. 🇲🇳Mongolia0.45%
  3. 🇵🇦Panama0.33%
  4. 🇦🇲Armenia0.31%
  5. 🇬🇭Ghana0.26%
  6. 🇦🇷Argentina0.26%
  7. 🇧🇴Bolivia0.25%
  8. 🇹🇭Thailand0.19%
  9. 🇧🇷Brazil0.19%
  10. 🇵🇪Peru0.19%
  11. 🇵🇾Paraguay0.18%
  12. 🇨🇷Costa Rica0.18%
Stems start at zero, so the length of each stem is the entry’s value.
1
🇪🇹Ethiopia
0.50%
2
🇲🇳Mongolia
0.45%
3
🇵🇦Panama
0.33%
4
🇦🇲Armenia
0.31%
5
🇬🇭Ghana
0.26%
6
🇦🇷Argentina
0.26%
7
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.25%
8
🇹🇭Thailand
0.19%
9
🇧🇷Brazil
0.19%
10
🇵🇪Peru
0.19%
11
🇵🇾Paraguay
0.18%
12
🇨🇷Costa Rica
0.18%
13
🇸🇻El Salvador
0.16%

Highlights

As of 2021, Ethiopia ranks first with 0.50%, followed by Mongolia (0.45%) and Panama (0.33%).

Across 13 countries and territories, values run from 0.50% (Ethiopia) to 0.16% (El Salvador), with a median of 0.25%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from the Americas, 3 from Asia and 2 from Africa.

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

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