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Number of public paid employees

Number of public paid employees, reported by Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators in the World Bank Open Data catalog.

📅 2021📏 indicator value11 entries
  1. 🇵🇪Peru15,543.0
  2. 🇹🇭Thailand11,886.0
  3. 🇪🇹Ethiopia10,997.0
  4. 🇸🇻El Salvador6,798.0
  5. 🇨🇷Costa Rica6,580.0
  6. 🇧🇴Bolivia3,926.0
  7. 🇦🇲Armenia3,670.0
  8. 🇲🇳Mongolia3,030.0
  9. 🇵🇦Panama2,668.0
  10. 🇬🇭Ghana2,209.0
  11. 🇵🇾Paraguay2,103.0
Stems start at zero, so the length of each stem is the entry’s value.
1
🇵🇪Peru
15,543.0
2
🇹🇭Thailand
11,886.0
3
🇪🇹Ethiopia
10,997.0
4
🇸🇻El Salvador
6,798.0
5
🇨🇷Costa Rica
6,580.0
6
🇧🇴Bolivia
3,926.0
7
🇦🇲Armenia
3,670.0
8
🇲🇳Mongolia
3,030.0
9
🇵🇦Panama
2,668.0
10
🇬🇭Ghana
2,209.0
11
🇵🇾Paraguay
2,103.0

Highlights

As of 2021, Peru ranks first with 15,543.0, followed by Thailand (11,886.0) and Ethiopia (10,997.0).

Across 11 countries and territories, values run from 15,543.0 (Peru) to 2,103.0 (Paraguay), with a median of 3,926.0.

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 — Number of public paid employees, 2021. Unit: indicator value.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Number of public paid employees · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026