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Wage bill as a percentage of Public Expenditure

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

📅 2022📏 %166 entries

SomaliaEritreaNamibiaSamoaKyrgyzstanChadBoliviaLesothoMoroccoBruneiCape VerdeBelizeVanuatuGabonLaosSierra LeoneMaliIraqSouth AfricaSão Tomé and PríncipeCosta RicaRussiaIcelandSeychellesTongaGuatemalaMauritiusArubaIndonesiaParaguayFijiArgentinaNauruNorwayEcuadorChilePeruOmanIrelandBrazilDjiboutiMalawiEstoniaPhilippinesAlgeriaMaldivesUnited StatesTajikistanPortugalComorosFinlandThailandMauritaniaNew ZealandBahamasFranceAustraliaAngolaBelarusMoldovaRwandaMexicoKazakhstanUruguayNepal

54.64% – 31.81%31.64% – 27.34%27.11% – 23.48%23.47% – 20.47%20.44% – 3.38%No data

🇪🇹Ethiopia

54.64%

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

49.16%

🇸🇴Somalia

43.98%

🇲🇿Mozambique

43.83%

🇪🇷Eritrea

43.33%

🇹🇳Tunisia

43.05%

🇰🇼Kuwait

41.32%

🇧🇼Botswana

40.41%

🇳🇦Namibia

39.56%

🇼🇸Samoa

39.29%

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

38.85%

🇸🇻El Salvador

38.30%

🇹🇲Turkmenistan

37.83%

🇹🇩Chad

37.75%

🇧🇴Bolivia

36.95%

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

36.90%

🇱🇸Lesotho

36.35%

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

35.93%

🇲🇦Morocco

35.67%

🇯🇲Jamaica

35.52%

🇧🇳Brunei

35.27%

🇲🇭Marshall Islands

35.22%

🇸🇿Eswatini

35.18%

🇨🇻Cape Verde

34.24%

🇧🇿Belize

34.20%

🇻🇺Vanuatu

32.99%

🇬🇦Gabon

32.96%

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

32.90%

🇱🇦Laos

32.63%

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

32.54%

🇲🇱Mali

32.38%

🇮🇶Iraq

32.35%

🇶🇦Qatar

31.85%

🇿🇼Zimbabwe

31.81%

🇵🇦Panama

31.64%

🇿🇦South Africa

31.24%

🇭🇹Haiti

31.09%

🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe

31.04%

🇸🇧Solomon Islands

31.01%

🇧🇭Bahrain

30.78%

🇨🇷Costa Rica

30.73%

🇷🇺Russia

30.69%

🇮🇸Iceland

30.57%

🇸🇨Seychelles

30.56%

🇰🇭Cambodia

30.55%

🇹🇴Tonga

29.93%

🇨🇾Cyprus

29.73%

🇹🇻Tuvalu

29.26%

🇬🇹Guatemala

29.15%

🇲🇺Mauritius

28.93%

Highlights

As of 2022, Ethiopia ranks first with 54.64%, followed by Saudi Arabia (49.16%) and Somalia (43.98%).

Across 166 countries and territories, values run from 54.64% (Ethiopia) to 3.38% (India), with a median of 25.47%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Africa, 2 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

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

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

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Highlights

As of 2022, Ethiopia ranks first with 54.64%, followed by Saudi Arabia (49.16%) and Somalia (43.98%).

Across 166 countries and territories, values run from 54.64% (Ethiopia) to 3.38% (India), with a median of 25.47%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Africa, 2 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

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