⚠️ Unconfirmedsocial2024
Laws requiring employers to provide paid paternity leave (binary: 1=yes, 0=no)
Which countries legally require employers to provide paid paternity leave for fathers—based on World Bank Women, Business and the Law data (latest available).
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Key Insights
Global Average
0.2Yes=1 / No=0
0Countries Covered
185
with available data
Highest
Denmark
1.0Yes=1 / No=0
Lowest
Brunei Darussalam
0.0Yes=1 / No=0
Top 5 Countries
1Denmark1.0Yes=1 / No=0
2Faroe Islands1.0Yes=1 / No=0
3Finland1.0Yes=1 / No=0
4France1.0Yes=1 / No=0
5Germany1.0Yes=1 / No=0
By Region
Europe0.7Yes=1 / No=0(32 countries)
Oceania0.5Yes=1 / No=0(2 countries)
South America0.1Yes=1 / No=0(7 countries)
Africa0.1Yes=1 / No=0(9 countries)
Asia0.1Yes=1 / No=0(26 countries)
Key Findings
- •Paid paternity leave laws are common in parts of Europe but remain absent in many low- and middle-income countries.
- •Binary mapping makes it easy to spot regions with limited formal support for fathers’ early caregiving.
- •Even where paternity leave exists, policy design (days offered and pay level) varies widely—binary indicators should be paired with generosity measures for deeper analysis.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Low (0.0Yes=1 / No=0)High (1.0Yes=1 / No=0)
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 0.2Yes=1 / No=0)
Europe (32)
Oceania (2)
South America (7)
Africa (9)
Asia (26)
Other (105)
North America (4)
About This Statistic
This statistic shows whether a country’s labor framework includes a legal requirement for employers (or the social security system) to provide paid paternity leave to fathers. It is a simple, comparable indicator that highlights how national policies recognize fathers’ caregiving roles around childbirth and how family-leave systems are designed.
Because it is binary, it’s especially useful for mapping policy adoption globally and tracking reforms over time. Countries differ widely: some mandate days or weeks of paid paternity leave, while others provide only unpaid leave or no paternity entitlement at all (sometimes substituting parental leave provisions that may or may not be paid).
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denmark | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 2 | Faroe Islands | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 3 | Finland | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 4 | France | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 5 | Germany | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 6 | Greece | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 7 | Hungary | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 8 | Iceland | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 9 | Italy | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 10 | Japan | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 11 | South Korea | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 12 | Lithuania | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 13 | Luxembourg | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 14 | Mauritius | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 15 | Netherlands | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 16 | New Zealand | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 17 | Norway | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 18 | Poland | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 19 | Portugal | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 20 | Slovakia | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 21 | Slovenia | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 22 | Spain | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 23 | Sweden | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 24 | Switzerland | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 25 | United Kingdom | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 26 | Algeria | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 27 | Argentina | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 28 | Belgium | 1.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 29 | Bulgaria | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 30 | Myanmar | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 31 | Burundi | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 32 | Belarus | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 33 | Cambodia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 34 | Cameroon | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 35 | Canada | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 36 | Cape Verde | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 37 | Cayman Islands | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 38 | Central African Republic | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 39 | Sri Lanka | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 40 | Chad | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 41 | Chile | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 42 | People's Republic of China | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 43 | Taiwan, Province of China | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 44 | Colombia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 45 | Comoros | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 46 | Mayotte | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 47 | Republic of the Congo | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 48 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 49 | Costa Rica | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 50 | Croatia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 51 | Cuba | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 52 | Cyprus | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 53 | Czech Republic | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 54 | Benin | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 55 | Dominica | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 56 | Dominican Republic | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 57 | Ecuador | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 58 | El Salvador | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 59 | Equatorial Guinea | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 60 | Ethiopia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 61 | Eritrea | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 62 | Estonia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 63 | Fiji | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 64 | Djibouti | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 65 | Gabon | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 66 | Georgia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 67 | Republic of The Gambia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 68 | State of Palestine | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 69 | Ghana | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 70 | Greenland | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 71 | Guatemala | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 72 | Guinea | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 73 | Guyana | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 74 | Haiti | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 75 | Honduras | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 76 | India | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 77 | Indonesia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 78 | Islamic Republic of Iran | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 79 | Iraq | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 80 | Ireland | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 81 | Israel | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 82 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 83 | Jamaica | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 84 | Kazakhstan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 85 | Jordan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 86 | Kenya | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 87 | North Korea | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 88 | Kuwait | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 89 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 90 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 91 | Lebanon | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 92 | Lesotho | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 93 | Latvia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 94 | Liberia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 95 | Libya | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 96 | Madagascar | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 97 | Malawi | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 98 | Malaysia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 99 | Maldives | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 100 | Mali | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 101 | Malta | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 102 | Mauritania | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 103 | Mexico | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 104 | Mongolia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 105 | Moldova, Republic of | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 106 | Montenegro | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 107 | Morocco | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 108 | Mozambique | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 109 | Oman | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 110 | Namibia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 111 | Nepal | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 112 | New Caledonia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 113 | Vanuatu | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 114 | Nicaragua | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 115 | Niger | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 116 | Nigeria | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 117 | Pakistan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 118 | Panama | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 119 | Papua New Guinea | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 120 | Paraguay | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 121 | Peru | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 122 | Philippines | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 123 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 124 | Timor-Leste | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 125 | Qatar | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 126 | Romania | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 127 | Russian Federation | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 128 | Rwanda | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 129 | Saudi Arabia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 130 | Senegal | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 131 | Serbia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 132 | Sierra Leone | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 133 | Singapore | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 134 | Vietnam | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 135 | Somalia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 136 | South Africa | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 137 | Zimbabwe | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 138 | South Sudan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 139 | Sudan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 140 | Suriname | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 141 | Eswatini | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 142 | Syrian Arab Republic | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 143 | Tajikistan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 144 | Thailand | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 145 | Togo | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 146 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 147 | United Arab Emirates | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 148 | Tunisia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 149 | Türkiye | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 150 | Turkmenistan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 151 | Uganda | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 152 | Ukraine | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 153 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 154 | Egypt | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 155 | United Republic of Tanzania | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 156 | United States of America | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 157 | Burkina Faso | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 158 | Uruguay | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 159 | Uzbekistan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 160 | Venezuela | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 161 | Yemen | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 162 | Zambia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 163 | Afghanistan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 164 | Albania | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 165 | Andorra | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 166 | Angola | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 167 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 168 | Azerbaijan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 169 | Australia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 170 | Austria | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 171 | Bahamas | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 172 | Bahrain | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 173 | Bangladesh | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 174 | Armenia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 175 | Barbados | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 176 | Bermuda | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 177 | Bhutan | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 178 | Bolivia | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 179 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 180 | Botswana | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 181 | Brazil | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 182 | Belize | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 183 | Solomon Islands | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 184 | Virgin Islands, British | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
| 185 | Brunei Darussalam | 0.0Yes=1 / No=0 |
Showing 185 of 185 countries
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Data Source
This data comes from World Bank — Women, Business and the Law (WBL) (2024).
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