Web customers determined to calculate: is the variety of civil servants in Lithuania and Japan actually so totally different?

The cost is 250 occasions totally different?

Lithuanians began utilizing the Fb social community to share comparability of statistics on Japanese and Lithuanian civil servants.

It’s indicated that Japan, which has a inhabitants of 128 million. individuals, has a complete of 9 thousand civil servants. In the meantime, in Lithuania with simply 2.95 million inhabitants is estimated at 52 thousand. civil servants.

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The image additionally reveals a comparability: 57 Lithuanians are served by one civil servant, whereas in Japan there’s one civil servant for each 14,222 inhabitants.

The numbers do not add up

In accordance with the web site Worldometer, which offers an up-to-date inhabitants rely, Japan’s inhabitants is near 123 million, not 128 million. individuals, based on the publish.

In accordance with the identical web site, 2.7 million individuals at the moment stay in Lithuania. individuals. So it may be assumed that the information supplied is outdated.

Official statistics portal it’s introduced that in 2022 2.8 million individuals lived in Lithuania. individuals.

Photograph by Saulius Žiura/Christmas Vilnius

In any case, the inhabitants of Lithuania and Japan is barely lower than the publish says, however the numbers should not considerably totally different. Alternatively, the numbers of civil servants don’t correspond strongly to actuality.

Statistics portal “Statista” submits variety of civil servants in Japan by ministries and companies.

in 2021 based on July knowledge, nearly 70 thousand individuals labored within the Ministry of Finance of Japan alone. nationwide authorities officers. In complete, regarding 274 thousand individuals labored in ministries and companies that yr. nationwide civil servants.

Reuters/Scanpix Photograph/Japan

It’s clear that this quantity is much from the quantity indicated by Web customers – 9 thousand.

Public Administration Company submits in 2023 knowledge up to date in November indicating the approximate variety of civil servants in Lithuania.

About 2.7 million individuals stay in Lithuania. inhabitants. About 1.3 million individuals work. individuals (regarding 44 p.c of the inhabitants). Of them, 370 thousand of individuals are public sector staff (nearly 30 p.c of all staff), of which greater than 50 thousand are civil servants,” the web site states.

Public service portal are offered Knowledge from the Lithuanian Statistics Division that in 2016 There have been 1,473,300 working-age residents in Lithuania, and 387.9 thousand individuals labored within the state sector. individuals. Of those, 51,136 had been civil servants.

Indrė Kažukalovaitė photograph. Civil servants

It was calculated that civil servants accounted for 3.8 p.c. and 13 p.c of the employed inhabitants of Lithuania. individuals working within the public sector.

“For comparability, 35 p.c work within the training sector.” of all staff within the state sector, well being care and social work – 19 p.c”, the portal reads.

This portal mentions that it’s troublesome to match the variety of civil servants in Lithuania and different international locations of the European Union, as a result of the ideas of civil service differ and specialists in numerous fields are assigned to those employees.

A desk evaluating the information of the Baltic international locations can also be offered. Lithuania has the most important variety of civil servants, and one civil servant has the smallest inhabitants, however our nation additionally has the most important variety of individuals.

15min verdict: partly a lie. The variety of civil servants working in Lithuania and the variety of inhabitants per civil servant are indicated kind of accurately. Nevertheless, Japan’s statistics don’t match the fact in any respect, as a result of there are literally way more civil servants working there.

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