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Females, as a share of public paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 5

Females, as a share of public paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 5, reported by Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators in the World Bank Open Data catalog.

📅 2021📏 %11 entries
11leaders
  1. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica0.57%
  2. 🇸🇻 El Salvador0.57%
  3. 🇵🇦 Panama0.52%
  4. 🇵🇾 Paraguay0.51%
  5. 🇦🇷 Argentina0.48%
  6. 🇲🇳 Mongolia0.44%
  7. 🇵🇪 Peru0.40%
  8. 🇧🇴 Bolivia0.39%
  9. 🇧🇷 Brazil0.38%
  10. 🇬🇭 Ghana0.32%
  11. 🇦🇲 Armenia0.30%
Each wedge is one entry; longer wedges indicate higher values.
1
🇨🇷Costa Rica
0.57%
2
🇸🇻El Salvador
0.57%
3
🇵🇦Panama
0.52%
4
🇵🇾Paraguay
0.51%
5
🇦🇷Argentina
0.48%
6
🇲🇳Mongolia
0.44%
7
🇵🇪Peru
0.40%
8
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.39%
9
🇧🇷Brazil
0.38%
10
🇬🇭Ghana
0.32%
11
🇦🇲Armenia
0.30%

Highlights

As of 2021, Costa Rica ranks first with 0.57%, followed by El Salvador (0.57%) and Panama (0.52%).

The top two are virtually level: Costa Rica and El Salvador differ by less than 1%.

Across 11 countries and territories, values run from 0.57% (Costa Rica) to 0.30% (Armenia), with a median of 0.44%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from the Americas, 1 from Africa and 1 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Females, as a share of public paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 5, 2021. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Females, as a share of public paid employees by wage quintile: Quintile 5 · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026