Worldwide Maternity Leave Benefits, 2006-2007
| Region | Unpaid | Full pay for less than 14 weeks |
Less than two-thirds pay for a minimum of 14 weeks |
At least two-thirds but less than 100% for 14 weeks |
Full pay for 14 weeks or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrialized countries | United States | Iceland, Malta | Australia* ,Canada, Japan | Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain |
| Central and Eastern Europe | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Turkey | Hungary, Slovakia | Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Romania | Belarus, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Ukraine | |
| Asia | Papua New Guinea | Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand | Mongolia | Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam | |
| Latin America | Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay | Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela | |||
| Caribbean | Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago | Belize | |||
| Middle East | Afghanistan, Bahrain, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Yemen | ||||
| Africa | Lesotho, Swaziland | Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea- Bissau, Kenya, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe, Seychelles, Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe | Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Niger, Somalia, South Africa | Côte d'Ivoire | Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal, Togo |
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