The most recent report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), called Government at a Glance 2021, revealed that Colombia, together with Japan, is the country with the least public sector employees.
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The report identified the share of public sector employees in relation to total employment (sum of private and public workers) in 33 of its member countries. In this way, Norway, Sweden and Denmark These are the countries with the highest percentage of public servants.
On average, the OECD countries have 16.38% public employees of the total number of workers.
Figures from the Colombian Government, taken from both the Public Employment Information and Management System (SIGEP) and the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), show that Colombian public servants represent 6.20% of the total employees in the country. This means that, compared to the OECD average, we are 10.8 percentage points lower.
In this sense, it would only be surpassed by Japan whose figure is 5.89%.
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“Although Colombia is perceived as having a high bureaucracy, it is not large compared to OECD countries and the region. On the contrary, the country has a small bureaucracy that responds to the particular needs of our State. In this sense, the National Government and Public Function have sought to optimize resources to provide citizens with the services they need in the most efficient way possible.“, commented the director of the Administrative Department of Public Function, Nerio José Alvis Barranco.
However, among the countries with less bureaucracy are United States, Spain and Mexico. Even with nations outside the OECD, Colombia continues to have very low levels compared to South Korea (8.13%), Turkey (13.06%) and Poland (17.25%).
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