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The Parenthood topic enforcement perceptions score measures the extent to which laws on women’s work during and after pregnancy are enforced in practice. It is calculated as the unweighted average of the indicator scores in the topic and rescaled to a 0–100 scale, where 0 represents the lowest possible score and 100 the highest possible score. For details, please refer to the WBL Methodology Handbook (link: https://wbl.worldbank.org/content/dam/sites/wbl/documents/2026/WBL-Methodology-Handbook-2026-FINAL.pdf).
As of 2025, Belgium ranks first with 100.0, followed by China (100.0) and Cyprus (100.0).
The top two are virtually level: Belgium and China differ by less than 1%.
Across 174 countries and territories, values run from 100.0 (Belgium) to 0.0 (Tonga), with a median of 58.4.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from Europe, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Asia.
Source: World Bank Open Data — WBL: Enforcement Perceptions, Parenthood, Score (scale 0-100), 2025. Unit: scale 0-100.
Source: World Bank Open Data — WBL: Enforcement Perceptions, Parenthood, Score (scale 0-100) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026