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Public sector employment, as a share of total employment

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

📅 2021📏 %13 entries
12leaders
  1. 🇲🇳 Mongolia0.27%
  2. 🇦🇲 Armenia0.22%
  3. 🇦🇷 Argentina0.19%
  4. 🇵🇦 Panama0.18%
  5. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica0.13%
  6. 🇧🇷 Brazil0.13%
  7. 🇵🇾 Paraguay0.10%
  8. 🇹🇭 Thailand0.09%
  9. 🇧🇴 Bolivia0.09%
  10. 🇸🇻 El Salvador0.08%
  11. 🇵🇪 Peru0.08%
  12. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia0.07%
Each wedge is one entry; longer wedges indicate higher values.
1
🇲🇳Mongolia
0.27%
2
🇦🇲Armenia
0.22%
3
🇦🇷Argentina
0.19%
4
🇵🇦Panama
0.18%
5
🇨🇷Costa Rica
0.13%
6
🇧🇷Brazil
0.13%
7
🇵🇾Paraguay
0.10%
8
🇹🇭Thailand
0.09%
9
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.09%
10
🇸🇻El Salvador
0.08%
11
🇵🇪Peru
0.08%
12
🇪🇹Ethiopia
0.07%
13
🇬🇭Ghana
0.06%

Highlights

As of 2021, Mongolia ranks first with 0.27%, followed by Armenia (0.22%) and Argentina (0.19%).

Across 13 countries and territories, values run from 0.27% (Mongolia) to 0.06% (Ghana), with a median of 0.10%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from the Americas and 3 from Asia.

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

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