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

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

📅 2021📏 using median11 entries
  1. 🇸🇻El Salvador1.2
  2. 🇵🇦Panama1.1
  3. 🇵🇾Paraguay1.1
  4. 🇨🇷Costa Rica1.0
  5. 🇧🇴Bolivia0.9
  6. 🇵🇪Peru0.9
  7. 🇬🇭Ghana0.9
  8. 🇲🇳Mongolia0.9
  9. 🇦🇷Argentina0.8
  10. 🇧🇷Brazil0.8
  11. 🇦🇲Armenia0.7
Stems start at zero, so the length of each stem is the entry’s value.
1
🇸🇻El Salvador
1.2
2
🇵🇦Panama
1.1
3
🇵🇾Paraguay
1.1
4
🇨🇷Costa Rica
1.0
5
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.9
6
🇵🇪Peru
0.9
7
🇬🇭Ghana
0.9
8
🇲🇳Mongolia
0.9
9
🇦🇷Argentina
0.8
10
🇧🇷Brazil
0.8
11
🇦🇲Armenia
0.7

Highlights

As of 2021, El Salvador ranks first with 1.2, followed by Panama (1.1) and Paraguay (1.1).

Across 11 countries and territories, values run from 1.2 (El Salvador) to 0.7 (Armenia), with a median of 0.9.

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 — Female to male wage ratio in the public sector (using median), 2021. Unit: using median.

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