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The Parenthood supportive frameworks topic score examines policies and practices that support the implementation of laws pertaining to parents’ ability to continue working after having children, including the ease of application and incentives for father’s leave and availability of data on women’s unpaid care work. It is divided into four indicators. 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 on underlying questions and scoring assumptions, please refer to the WBL Methodology Handbook (link: https://wbl.worldbank.org/content/dam/site
As of 2025, Canada ranks first with 100.0, followed by France (100.0) and Germany (100.0).
The top two are virtually level: Canada and France differ by less than 1%.
Across 188 countries and territories, values run from 100.0 (Canada) to 0.0 (Zambia), with a median of 25.0.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from Europe and 2 from the Americas.
Source: World Bank Open Data — WBL: Supportive Framework, Parenthood, Score (scale 0-100), 2025. Unit: scale 0-100.
Source: World Bank Open Data — WBL: Supportive Framework, Parenthood, Score (scale 0-100) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026