Australia
Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, female (% of 24 hour day)
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.
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Analytical takeaways
- Australia records 17.92% for Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, female (% of 24 hour day) in 2024, ranking #1 globally out of 1 countries.
- Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, female (% of 24 hour day) declined from 20.83% in 2006 to 17.92% in 2024, a decrease of 2.92%.
- The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.
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