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Cross-country public sector pay comparison ratio, by occupation: Police officer (using median)

Cross-country public sector pay comparison ratio, by occupation: Police officer (using median), reported by Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators in the World Bank Open Data catalog.

📅 2017📏 using median138 entries

Oceania · 3

Europe · 37

Americas · 28

Asia · 30

Africa · 40

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Every dot is one country, placed by its value (using median); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.

🇰🇼Kuwait

5.5

🇱🇺Luxembourg

4.3

🇺🇸United States

4.2

🇨🇭Switzerland

3.8

🇳🇴Norway

3.8

🇫🇷France

3.7

🇦🇺Australia

3.7

🇭🇰Hong Kong

3.6

🇳🇱Netherlands

3.6

🇨🇦Canada

3.5

🇮🇹Italy

3.4

🇮🇪Ireland

3.2

🇩🇪Germany

3.1

🇩🇰Denmark

3.0

🇬🇧United Kingdom

2.8

🇧🇪Belgium

2.8

🇫🇮Finland

2.8

🇳🇿New Zealand

2.8

🇦🇹Austria

2.7

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

2.7

🇮🇸Iceland

2.7

🇯🇵Japan

2.6

🇰🇾Cayman Islands

2.5

🇸🇬Singapore

2.5

🇪🇸Spain

2.5

🇸🇪Sweden

2.4

🇵🇹Portugal

2.4

🇸🇮Slovenia

2.3

🇧🇲Bermuda

2.3

🇨🇳China

2.2

🇬🇷Greece

2.2

🇰🇷South Korea

2.1

🇨🇾Cyprus

2.1

🇨🇿Czechia

1.9

🇮🇶Iraq

1.8

🇭🇺Hungary

1.7

🇪🇪Estonia

1.6

🇧🇴Bolivia

1.6

🇧🇷Brazil

1.5

🇵🇾Paraguay

1.5

🇦🇼Aruba

1.5

🇹🇷Türkiye

1.5

🇹🇳Tunisia

1.5

🇮🇱Israel

1.5

🇸🇰Slovakia

1.4

🇪🇨Ecuador

1.4

🇲🇾Malaysia

1.4

🇮🇳India

1.4

🇭🇷Croatia

1.3

🇱🇹Lithuania

1.3

Highlights

As of 2017, Kuwait ranks first with 5.5, followed by Luxembourg (4.3) and United States (4.2).

Across 138 countries and territories, values run from 5.5 (Kuwait) to 0.1 (Sierra Leone), with a median of 1.0.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Europe, 2 from the Americas, 2 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Cross-country public sector pay comparison ratio, by occupation: Police officer (using median), 2017. Unit: using median.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Cross-country public sector pay comparison ratio, by occupation: Police officer (using median) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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Highlights

As of 2017, Kuwait ranks first with 5.5, followed by Luxembourg (4.3) and United States (4.2).

Across 138 countries and territories, values run from 5.5 (Kuwait) to 0.1 (Sierra Leone), with a median of 1.0.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Europe, 2 from the Americas, 2 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Cross-country public sector pay comparison ratio, by occupation: Police officer (using median), 2017. Unit: using median.