Wage bill as a percentage of GDP

Wage bill as a percentage of GDP, reported by Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators in the World Bank Open Data catalog.

📅 2022📏 %167 entries

NauruLesothoMicronesiaVanuatuEritreaIcelandKyrgyzstanNamibiaTongaSamoaBoliviaFinlandFranceNorwaySpainMaldivesRussiaAlgeriaCape VerdeSeychellesIraqSão Tomé and PríncipeSouth AfricaArgentinaBrazilEcuadorUnited StatesNew ZealandMauritiusFijiBelizeCambodiaLatviaOmanAustraliaMaliSierra LeoneMoldovaChileParaguayTajikistanPhilippinesChadLaosPeruCosta RicaMalawiIrelandThailandBahamasRwandaMauritaniaColombiaIndonesiaComorosGabonMexicoUruguayAngolaGuatemalaKazakhstanNepalSudan

42.65% – 11.48%11.35% – 9.00%8.99% – 6.62%6.60% – 4.79%4.77% – 0.98%No data

🇳🇷Nauru

42.65%

🇹🇻Tuvalu

31.31%

🇲🇭Marshall Islands

22.40%

🇱🇸Lesotho

19.53%

🇫🇲Micronesia

18.05%

🇰🇼Kuwait

16.83%

🇻🇺Vanuatu

16.60%

🇪🇷Eritrea

16.54%

🇹🇳Tunisia

15.06%

🇮🇸Iceland

14.85%

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

14.73%

🇳🇦Namibia

14.73%

🇹🇴Tonga

14.62%

🇲🇿Mozambique

14.51%

🇩🇰Denmark

14.43%

🇧🇼Botswana

13.86%

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

13.72%

🇼🇸Samoa

13.65%

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

13.20%

🇧🇴Bolivia

12.99%

🇨🇾Cyprus

12.61%

🇫🇮Finland

12.56%

🇸🇪Sweden

12.43%

🇫🇷France

12.42%

🇧🇪Belgium

12.28%

🇸🇻El Salvador

12.06%

🇲🇹Malta

12.05%

🇳🇴Norway

11.96%

🇸🇧Solomon Islands

11.67%

🇭🇷Croatia

11.65%

🇪🇸Spain

11.65%

🇬🇷Greece

11.57%

🇸🇮Slovenia

11.56%

🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis

11.48%

🇸🇿Eswatini

11.35%

🇩🇲Dominica

10.96%

🇲🇻Maldives

10.93%

🇷🇺Russia

10.90%

🇩🇿Algeria

10.89%

🇨🇻Cape Verde

10.88%

🇱🇹Lithuania

10.85%

🇸🇨Seychelles

10.81%

🇲🇦Morocco

10.73%

🇪🇪Estonia

10.71%

🇮🇶Iraq

10.71%

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

10.62%

🇸🇰Slovakia

10.61%

🇵🇹Portugal

10.58%

🇦🇹Austria

10.57%

🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe

10.48%

Highlights

As of 2022, Nauru ranks first with 42.65%, followed by Tuvalu (31.31%) and Marshall Islands (22.40%).

Across 167 countries and territories, values run from 42.65% (Nauru) to 0.98% (India), with a median of 7.97%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Oceania, 3 from Africa, 1 from Asia and 1 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Wage bill as a percentage of GDP, 2022. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Wage bill as a percentage of GDP · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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Highlights

As of 2022, Nauru ranks first with 42.65%, followed by Tuvalu (31.31%) and Marshall Islands (22.40%).

Across 167 countries and territories, values run from 42.65% (Nauru) to 0.98% (India), with a median of 7.97%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Oceania, 3 from Africa, 1 from Asia and 1 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Wage bill as a percentage of GDP, 2022. Unit: %.