Public sector employment, as a share of total employment by location: Rural

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

📅 2021📏 %12 entries

1🇦🇲Armenia0.19%%2🇨🇷Costa Rica0.11%58% of #1 3🇵🇦Panama0.10%54% of #1

#4 🇹🇭 Thailand 0.08%
#5 🇧🇷 Brazil 0.07%
#6 🇲🇳 Mongolia 0.07%
#7 🇸🇻 El Salvador 0.06%
#8 🇵🇾 Paraguay 0.06%
#9 🇧🇴 Bolivia 0.05%
#10 🇬🇭 Ghana 0.03%
#11 🇵🇪 Peru 0.03%
#12 🇪🇹 Ethiopia 0.02%

The bar under each card is its value as a share of the leader’s.

🇦🇲Armenia

0.19%

🇨🇷Costa Rica

0.11%

🇵🇦Panama

0.10%

🇹🇭Thailand

0.08%

🇧🇷Brazil

0.07%

🇲🇳Mongolia

0.07%

🇸🇻El Salvador

0.06%

🇵🇾Paraguay

0.06%

🇧🇴Bolivia

0.05%

🇬🇭Ghana

0.03%

🇵🇪Peru

0.03%

🇪🇹Ethiopia

0.02%

Highlights

As of 2021, Armenia ranks first with 0.19%, followed by Costa Rica (0.11%) and Panama (0.10%).

Armenia is 1.7 times higher than Costa Rica, the runner-up.

Across 12 countries and territories, values run from 0.19% (Armenia) to 0.02% (Ethiopia), with a median of 0.06%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from the Americas, 3 from Asia and 1 from Africa.

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

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