Employees (15+) by country
With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. For time series comparability, it includes countries that have...
What the numbers show
Employees (15+) is currently reported for 73 countries. The highest value is 153,610 in United States; the lowest is 39.21 in Grenada.
The median across all reporting countries is 3,120, and the mean is 12,859.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3,918.
Over the past decade 68 countries rose and 4 fell. The largest increase was in Seychelles (up 664.7%), and the largest decrease in Palestine (down 25.6%).
Employees: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 153,610 | 2025 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 2 | India | 120,546 | 2025 | up 62.0% | rising |
| 3 | Brazil | 71,140 | 2025 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 4 | Indonesia | 63,988 | 2023 | up 20.7% | rising |
| 5 | Japan | 60,461 | 2023 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 6 | Mexico | 41,322 | 2026 | up 18.7% | rising |
| 7 | Pakistan | 32,982 | 2025 | up 51.5% | rising |
| 8 | Philippines | 29,708 | 2023 | up 34.3% | rising |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 29,606 | 2025 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 10 | Vietnam | 27,593 | 2024 | up 46.8% | rising |
| 11 | Bangladesh | 25,988 | 2024 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 12 | France | 25,138 | 2024 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 13 | Turkey | 23,353 | 2025 | up 31.0% | rising |
| 14 | Egypt | 21,747 | 2024 | up 48.5% | rising |
| 15 | Thailand | 19,634 | 2025 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 16 | Italy | 17,812 | 2020 | up 2.0% | flat |
| 17 | Iran | 13,916 | 2024 | up 17.3% | rising |
| 18 | Colombia | 12,964 | 2025 | up 39.5% | rising |
| 19 | Australia | 12,406 | 2025 | up 18.2% | rising |
| 20 | Argentina | 9,669 | 2025 | up 14.6% | rising |
| 21 | Peru | 8,834 | 2025 | up 9.3% | rising |
| 22 | Myanmar | 8,529 | 2020 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 23 | United Arab Emirates | 8,118 | 2023 | up 16.2% | rising |
| 24 | Cambodia | 4,846 | 2023 | up 48.4% | rising |
| 25 | Sri Lanka | 4,676 | 2024 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 26 | Belarus | 4,575 | 2024 | down 1.9% | flat |
| 27 | Tanzania | 4,559 | 2024 | up 60.8% | rising |
| 28 | Portugal | 4,474 | 2025 | up 20.6% | rising |
| 29 | Guatemala | 4,394 | 2024 | up 22.3% | rising |
| 30 | Czechia | 4,386 | 2024 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 31 | Ecuador | 4,151 | 2025 | up 5.7% | flat |
| 32 | Switzerland | 4,075 | 2025 | up 5.6% | rising |
| 33 | Austria | 3,804 | 2025 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 34 | Israel | 3,796 | 2024 | up 22.5% | rising |
| 35 | Angola | 3,788 | 2025 | up 99.3% | rising |
| 36 | Uganda | 3,355 | 2021 | up 68.2% | rising |
| 37 | Rwanda | 3,120 | 2025 | up 48.0% | rising |
| 38 | Greece | 3,112 | 2025 | up 32.6% | rising |
| 39 | Dominican Republic | 3,039 | 2025 | up 32.9% | rising |
| 40 | Honduras | 2,621 | 2025 | up 55.5% | rising |
| 41 | Jordan | 2,437 | 2023 | up 35.0% | rising |
| 42 | Slovakia | 2,214 | 2023 | up 12.8% | rising |
| 43 | Serbia | 2,097 | 2019 | up 33.1% | rising |
| 44 | Singapore | 2,096 | 2025 | — | rising |
| 45 | Zambia | 1,959 | 2024 | up 60.3% | rising |
| 46 | El Salvador | 1,933 | 2025 | up 21.7% | rising |
| 47 | Bolivia | 1,776 | 2025 | down 5.6% | rising |
| 48 | Kyrgyzstan | 1,775 | 2023 | up 49.0% | rising |
| 49 | Zimbabwe | 1,725 | 2024 | up 27.3% | rising |
| 50 | Costa Rica | 1,621 | 2025 | up 6.7% | rising |
| 51 | Senegal | 1,607 | 2024 | up 55.9% | rising |
| 52 | Uruguay | 1,243 | 2025 | up 4.0% | flat |
| 53 | Panama | 1,216 | 2025 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 54 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,069 | 2024 | up 71.1% | rising |
| 55 | Georgia | 961.1 | 2025 | up 16.6% | rising |
| 56 | Mali | 923.47 | 2024 | up 84.6% | rising |
| 57 | Mongolia | 833.97 | 2025 | up 47.2% | rising |
| 58 | Armenia | 794.8 | 2023 | up 20.6% | rising |
| 59 | North Macedonia | 573.29 | 2025 | up 10.2% | rising |
| 60 | Botswana | 561.23 | 2024 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 61 | Albania | 537 | 2024 | up 24.6% | rising |
| 62 | Palestine | 474.47 | 2025 | down 25.6% | flat |
| 63 | Namibia | 451.32 | 2018 | up 15.0% | rising |
| 64 | Cyprus | 438.65 | 2024 | up 47.3% | rising |
| 65 | Mauritius | 434.37 | 2024 | up 3.4% | falling |
| 66 | Kosovo | 331.48 | 2024 | up 49.7% | rising |
| 67 | Brunei | 203.88 | 2024 | up 17.3% | rising |
| 68 | Seychelles | 168 | 2025 | up 664.7% | volatile |
| 69 | Bhutan | 151.16 | 2025 | up 58.5% | rising |
| 70 | Barbados | 102.75 | 2024 | down 4.2% | falling |
| 71 | East Timor | 101.82 | 2022 | up 28.9% | rising |
| 72 | Vanuatu | 47.39 | 2025 | up 19.6% | rising |
| 73 | Grenada | 39.21 | 2023 | up 11.3% | volatile |
About this data
With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. For time series comparability, it includes countries that have implemented the 19th ICLS standards, for which data are also available in the Work Statistics -- 19th ICLS (WORK) database. Employees are all those workers who hold paid employment jobs, which are those where the incumbents hold employment contracts which give them a basic remuneration not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work. Data disaggregated by economic activity are provided according to the latest version of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) available for that year. Data may have been regrouped from national classifications, which may not be strictly compatible with ISIC. For more information, refer to the Labour Force Statistics (LFS and STLFS) database description.