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Number of paid employees

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

📅 2021📏 indicator value11 entries
11leaders
  1. 🇵🇪 Peru71,679.0
  2. 🇸🇻 El Salvador50,994.0
  3. 🇹🇭 Thailand44,107.0
  4. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica38,224.0
  5. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia20,856.0
  6. 🇧🇴 Bolivia13,924.0
  7. 🇵🇾 Paraguay11,661.0
  8. 🇦🇲 Armenia9,548.0
  9. 🇵🇦 Panama8,668.0
  10. 🇬🇭 Ghana7,669.0
  11. 🇲🇳 Mongolia5,493.0
Each wedge is one entry; longer wedges indicate higher values.
1
🇵🇪Peru
71,679.0
2
🇸🇻El Salvador
50,994.0
3
🇹🇭Thailand
44,107.0
4
🇨🇷Costa Rica
38,224.0
5
🇪🇹Ethiopia
20,856.0
6
🇧🇴Bolivia
13,924.0
7
🇵🇾Paraguay
11,661.0
8
🇦🇲Armenia
9,548.0
9
🇵🇦Panama
8,668.0
10
🇬🇭Ghana
7,669.0
11
🇲🇳Mongolia
5,493.0

Highlights

As of 2021, Peru ranks first with 71,679.0, followed by El Salvador (50,994.0) and Thailand (44,107.0).

Across 11 countries and territories, values run from 71,679.0 (Peru) to 5,493.0 (Mongolia), with a median of 13,924.0.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from the Americas, 2 from Africa and 2 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Number of paid employees, 2021. Unit: indicator value.

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