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Female to male wage ratio in the private sector (using median)

Female to male wage ratio in the private sector (using median), reported by Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators in the World Bank Open Data catalog.

📅 2021📏 using median11 entries
11leaders
  1. 🇵🇦 Panama1.1
  2. 🇸🇻 El Salvador1.0
  3. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica0.9
  4. 🇵🇾 Paraguay0.9
  5. 🇲🇳 Mongolia0.8
  6. 🇵🇪 Peru0.8
  7. 🇧🇷 Brazil0.8
  8. 🇧🇴 Bolivia0.8
  9. 🇦🇲 Armenia0.7
  10. 🇦🇷 Argentina0.6
  11. 🇬🇭 Ghana0.5
Each wedge is one entry; longer wedges indicate higher values.
1
🇵🇦Panama
1.1
2
🇸🇻El Salvador
1.0
3
🇨🇷Costa Rica
0.9
4
🇵🇾Paraguay
0.9
5
🇲🇳Mongolia
0.8
6
🇵🇪Peru
0.8
7
🇧🇷Brazil
0.8
8
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.8
9
🇦🇲Armenia
0.7
10
🇦🇷Argentina
0.6
11
🇬🇭Ghana
0.5

Highlights

As of 2021, Panama ranks first with 1.1, followed by El Salvador (1.0) and Costa Rica (0.9).

Across 11 countries and territories, values run from 1.1 (Panama) to 0.5 (Ghana), with a median of 0.8.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from the Americas and 2 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Female to male wage ratio in the private sector (using median), 2021. Unit: using median.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Female to male wage ratio in the private sector (using median) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026