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The Pay Supportive Framework topic score examines policies and practices that support the implementation of equal pay legislation, including pay transparency measures and enforcement mechanisms, and the availability of statistical sex-disaggregated data on women’s employment and salaries in different economic sectors. 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/sites/wbl/documents/2026/WBL-Methodol
As of 2025, Austria ranks first with 100.0, followed by Belgium (100.0) and Canada (100.0).
The top two are virtually level: Austria and Belgium differ by less than 1%.
Across 188 countries and territories, values run from 100.0 (Austria) to 0.0 (Yemen), with a median of 37.5.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Europe, 2 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.
Source: World Bank Open Data — WBL: Supportive Framework, Pay, Score (scale 0-100), 2025. Unit: scale 0-100.
Source: World Bank Open Data — WBL: Supportive Framework, Pay, Score (scale 0-100) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026