Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, female

The average time women spend on household provision of services for own consumption. Data are expressed as a proportion of time in a day. Domestic and care work includes food preparation, dishwashing, cleaning and upkeep of a dwelling, laundry, ironing, gardening, caring for pets, shopping, installation, servicing and repair of personal and household goods, childcare, and care of the sick, elderly or disabled household members, among others.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
27
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

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  1. Produced by

    United Nations

    National statistical offices or national database and publications, United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal/database, note: Indicator code from the original source: SH_FPL_INFM; Indicator name from the original source: Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic chores and care work, by sex, age and location (%), publisher: UN Statistics Division, type: Excel, date accessed: 46190, date published: 2026-03-27

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    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Australia202417.92percent
Bulgaria202318.20percent
Canada202316.46percent
Austria202215.79percent
Brazil202211.78percent
Costa Rica202221.65percent
Australia202117.12percent
Colombia202117.64percent
Dominican Republic202114.49percent
Brazil201912.08percent

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