Labour force participation rate (ILO modelled estimates) (15+) by country

Name: Labour force participation rate (ILO modelled estimates) (15+)
Creator: International Labour Organization
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Countries reporting

189

Highest

86.66

Qatar

Lowest

23.27

Sao Tome and Principe

Median

60.91

Years covered

1990–2027

Data points

10,464

What the numbers show

Labour force participation rate (ILO modelled estimates) (15+) is currently reported for 189 countries. The highest value is 86.66 in Qatar; the lowest is 23.27 in Sao Tome and Principe.

The median across all reporting countries is 60.91, and the mean is 60.22.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4.

Over the past decade 68 countries rose and 121 fell. The largest increase was in Bolivia (up 15.2%), and the largest decrease in Samoa (down 23.8%).

Labour force participation rate (ILO modelled estimates): full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Qatar	86.66	2027	down 1.0%	rising
2	Madagascar	85.55	2027	down 0.1%	flat
3	Solomon Islands	84.31	2027	down 0.0%	flat
4	Tanzania	83.66	2027	down 0.2%	flat
5	Nigeria	82.43	2027	up 1.9%	flat
6	Cambodia	82.41	2027	up 1.2%	flat
7	North Korea	82.13	2027	up 0.0%	flat
8	Uganda	80.18	2027	up 11.7%	rising
9	Niger	80	2027	up 9.7%	flat
10	Bolivia	79.04	2027	up 15.2%	rising
11	United Arab Emirates	78.74	2027	down 0.0%	rising
12	Mozambique	78.59	2027	down 0.5%	falling
13	Eritrea	78.43	2027	down 0.7%	flat
14	Burundi	77.89	2027	down 2.8%	falling
15	Liberia	76.53	2027	down 0.5%	flat
16	Benin	76.47	2027	up 2.9%	rising
17	Angola	74.63	2027	down 1.3%	flat
18	Iceland	74.49	2027	down 3.1%	flat
19	South Sudan	73.41	2023	down 0.2%	flat
20	Central African Republic	73.32	2027	down 0.1%	flat
21	Bahamas	73.25	2027	down 1.2%	flat
22	Kuwait	73.08	2027	down 0.4%	rising
23	Peru	72.92	2027	down 5.3%	rising
24	Moldova	72.49	2027	up 6.1%	rising
25	Vietnam	71.95	2027	down 6.8%	flat
26	Singapore	70.48	2027	up 2.2%	rising
27	Paraguay	70.2	2027	down 1.2%	flat
28	Bahrain	70.1	2027	down 3.2%	rising
29	Burkina Faso	69.9	2027	down 10.5%	falling
30	New Zealand	69.9	2027	down 0.8%	rising
31	Jamaica	69.7	2027	up 6.1%	flat
32	Botswana	69.26	2027	up 10.3%	rising
33	Ethiopia	68.48	2027	down 8.4%	falling
34	Saint Lucia	68.3	2027	down 1.5%	rising
35	Oman	68.24	2027	down 3.5%	rising
36	Indonesia	68.01	2027	up 2.0%	flat
37	Congo	67.78	2027	down 0.6%	flat
38	Kazakhstan	67.76	2027	down 3.5%	flat
39	Zimbabwe	67.69	2027	up 2.6%	flat
40	East Timor	67.53	2027	up 0.7%	falling
41	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	67.45	2027	up 0.5%	rising
42	Kenya	67.32	2027	down 6.9%	falling
43	Cote d'Ivoire	67.05	2027	up 1.4%	flat
44	Macao	66.82	2027	down 4.4%	rising
45	Mali	66.81	2027	down 3.4%	falling
46	Netherlands	66.71	2027	up 0.9%	flat
47	Cyprus	66.42	2027	up 3.2%	rising
48	Laos	66.2	2027	up 10.7%	flat
49	Panama	66.17	2027	up 0.5%	rising
49	Caribbean	59.21	2027	down 0.2%	flat
50	Nicaragua	66.12	2027	up 1.2%	rising
51	Australia	66.09	2027	up 1.3%	rising
52	Malaysia	66.08	2027	up 1.3%	rising
53	Switzerland	65.93	2027	down 3.8%	flat
54	Thailand	65.83	2027	down 2.5%	falling
55	Israel	65.48	2027	down 0.0%	rising
56	Dominican Republic	65.12	2027	up 4.4%	rising
57	Norway	65.08	2027	down 0.9%	flat
58	Uruguay	64.95	2027	up 1.3%	rising
59	Saudi Arabia	64.92	2027	up 10.1%	rising
60	Guinea-Bissau	64.89	2027	up 3.0%	flat
61	Bhutan	64.69	2027	up 3.0%	falling
62	Cameroon	64.63	2027	down 6.7%	falling
63	Albania	64.62	2027	up 11.3%	falling
64	Denmark	64.6	2027	up 4.5%	falling
65	Estonia	64.53	2027	up 2.0%	flat
66	Ireland	64.45	2027	up 4.1%	flat
67	Ecuador	64.43	2027	down 5.5%	flat
68	Sweden	64.27	2027	down 0.2%	flat
69	Georgia	64.25	2027	down 2.4%	falling
70	Democratic Republic of Congo	64.13	2027	down 1.0%	falling
71	Barbados	64.09	2027	down 3.1%	falling
72	Canada	64.01	2027	down 2.7%	flat
73	Maldives	63.92	2027	up 8.0%	rising
74	Rwanda	63.92	2027	up 5.7%	flat
75	South Korea	63.91	2027	up 1.6%	rising
76	Haiti	63.86	2027	down 3.1%	flat
77	China	63.77	2027	down 6.7%	falling
78	Japan	63.66	2027	up 5.3%	flat
79	Brunei	63.56	2027	down 2.5%	falling
80	Malta	63.44	2027	up 10.0%	rising
81	Colombia	63.2	2027	down 4.3%	falling
82	Brazil	62.69	2027	down 2.8%	flat
83	El Salvador	62.36	2027	up 5.7%	flat
84	Lithuania	62.34	2027	up 2.8%	flat
85	Chile	62.32	2027	down 1.0%	rising
86	Guam	62.27	2027	down 0.1%	falling
87	Azerbaijan	62.1	2027	down 4.5%	falling
88	Malawi	62.06	2027	down 2.2%	falling
89	Argentina	61.98	2027	up 5.4%	flat
90	Zambia	61.96	2027	up 5.8%	flat
91	Belarus	61.65	2027	down 4.4%	rising
92	Mexico	61.54	2027	up 2.2%	flat
93	Philippines	61.27	2027	up 3.6%	flat
94	United States	61.24	2027	down 2.1%	falling
95	United Kingdom	60.91	2027	down 2.4%	flat
96	Luxembourg	60.79	2027	up 3.5%	rising
97	Hungary	60.49	2027	up 4.6%	rising
98	Latvia	59.89	2027	down 1.5%	flat
99	Czechia	59.84	2027	down 0.4%	flat
100	Germany	59.78	2027	down 1.4%	rising
101	Russia	59.78	2027	down 4.4%	flat
102	Equatorial Guinea	59.75	2027	down 2.5%	flat
103	Slovakia	59.57	2027	down 0.5%	flat
104	Guatemala	59.48	2027	down 2.4%	falling
105	Taiwan	59.34	2027	up 0.9%	flat
106	Finland	59.28	2027	up 1.0%	falling
107	Austria	59.26	2027	down 2.3%	rising
108	Chad	59.2	2027	down 2.1%	falling
109	Serbia	59.1	2027	up 10.4%	flat
110	Belize	59.05	2027	down 7.8%	rising
111	Namibia	58.76	2027	down 1.5%	rising
112	Bangladesh	58.64	2027	up 0.5%	flat
113	Mongolia	58.34	2027	down 1.3%	flat
114	Armenia	58.32	2027	down 5.1%	falling
115	Mauritius	58.27	2027	down 2.7%	flat
116	Togo	57.77	2027	down 0.5%	flat
117	Vanuatu	57.77	2027	down 3.6%	falling
118	Ghana	57.73	2027	down 13.6%	falling
119	Poland	57.64	2027	up 0.1%	flat
120	Costa Rica	57.62	2027	down 3.7%	flat
121	Portugal	57.49	2027	down 2.4%	flat
122	Montenegro	57.48	2027	up 9.2%	rising
123	Kyrgyzstan	57.18	2027	up 0.6%	falling
124	Fiji	57.06	2027	down 0.7%	falling
125	Cape Verde	57.01	2027	down 3.7%	falling
126	Uzbekistan	57.01	2027	up 1.0%	flat
127	Western Sahara	56.94	2027	down 2.4%	rising
128	Trinidad and Tobago	56.91	2027	down 7.6%	falling
129	Lesotho	56.64	2027	down 6.0%	falling
129	Slovenia	56.64	2027	down 3.3%	flat
131	Honduras	56.48	2027	down 12.2%	falling
132	Spain	56.48	2027	down 2.7%	rising
133	Comoros	56.33	2027	up 14.4%	rising
134	India	55.73	2027	up 5.8%	falling
135	Bulgaria	55.7	2027	up 0.5%	rising
136	New Caledonia	55.65	2027	down 7.6%	falling
137	South Africa	55.59	2027	up 0.4%	falling
138	Hong Kong	55.13	2027	down 8.8%	falling
139	Myanmar	55	2027	down 11.3%	falling
140	Guyana	54.77	2027	down 1.5%	falling
141	France	54.76	2027	down 0.9%	flat
142	Ukraine	54.64	2021	down 2.9%	falling
143	Turkey	54.63	2027	up 3.4%	flat
144	United States Virgin Islands	54.19	2027	down 8.4%	falling
145	Suriname	53.81	2027	down 4.2%	rising
146	Belgium	53.68	2027	up 0.6%	rising
147	Sierra Leone	53.05	2027	down 3.0%	falling
148	Guinea	52.37	2027	down 3.5%	falling
149	Pakistan	52.37	2027	up 2.0%	rising
150	Senegal	52.22	2027	up 13.5%	flat
151	Papua New Guinea	52.21	2027	up 3.6%	rising
152	Venezuela	51.65	2027	down 13.8%	falling
153	Croatia	51.64	2027	up 0.5%	falling
154	French Polynesia	51.53	2027	down 7.7%	falling
155	North Macedonia	51.41	2027	down 3.3%	falling
156	Greece	51.36	2027	up 0.7%	flat
157	Cuba	51.26	2027	down 7.7%	flat
158	Romania	51.17	2027	down 1.3%	flat
159	Eswatini	51.17	2027	up 0.6%	falling
160	Gabon	50.52	2027	down 1.0%	rising
161	Tonga	49.22	2027	down 9.4%	falling
162	Italy	48.63	2027	down 1.8%	flat
163	Bosnia and Herzegovina	48.47	2027	down 1.9%	falling
164	Sri Lanka	48.39	2027	down 10.4%	falling
165	Gambia	47.36	2027	down 0.9%	flat
166	Libya	47.3	2027	down 4.1%	rising
167	Palestine	44.99	2022	up 7.9%	rising
168	Tunisia	44.67	2027	down 5.9%	falling
169	Egypt	44.53	2027	down 0.9%	falling
170	Morocco	43.65	2027	down 4.1%	falling
171	Lebanon	43.42	2023	down 5.9%	rising
172	Puerto Rico	43.03	2027	up 12.5%	falling
173	Turkmenistan	41.81	2027	down 3.0%	falling
174	Iraq	41.53	2027	down 0.9%	flat
175	Samoa	41.48	2027	down 23.8%	falling
176	Mauritania	40.57	2027	down 1.3%	falling
177	Iran	40.34	2027	down 8.8%	falling
178	Jordan	40.11	2027	down 0.3%	flat
179	Algeria	40.01	2027	down 5.5%	falling
180	Nepal	39.14	2027	down 1.9%	falling
181	Tajikistan	38.15	2027	down 1.9%	falling
182	Sudan	37.52	2022	down 21.6%	falling
183	Afghanistan	37.27	2027	down 21.2%	falling
184	Syria	36.74	2027	down 2.7%	falling
185	Somalia	33.75	2027	down 1.0%	flat
186	Yemen	32.97	2027	up 1.6%	falling
187	Djibouti	31.7	2027	down 1.8%	falling
188	Sao Tome and Principe	23.27	2027	down 2.6%	falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

Sub-Saharan Africa: Lower-middle income 73.41
World 60.52
Western Africa 73.37
G7 60.06
Eastern Africa 71.62
Chagai 55.61
Sub-Saharan Africa 70.23
Arab States: High income 69.96
Sub-Saharan Africa: Low income 69.01
South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific: Upper-middle income 67.36
South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific: High income 67.06
Americas: Lower-middle income 66.85
Latin America and the Caribbean: Lower-middle income 66.85
South-Eastern Asia 66.49
ASEAN 66.49
Africa: Low income 66.43
Africa: Lower-middle income 66.36
South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific 66.3
Central Africa 65.7
Central and Western Asia: High income 65.61
South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific: Lower-middle income 64.81
Africa 64.8
Eastern Asia 63.94
APEC 63.86
Eastern Asia: Upper-middle income 63.76
CARICOM 63.66
Asia and the Pacific: High income 63.58
Pacific Islands 63.48
Asia and the Pacific: Upper-middle income 63.38
South America 63.36
Eastern Asia: High income 62.94
World: Low income 62.53
Latin America and the Caribbean 62.53
Americas: Upper-middle income 62.39
Latin America and the Caribbean: Upper-middle income 62.39
Americas 62.15
World: Upper-middle income 61.88
Northern Europe 61.85
World: Lower-middle income excluding India 61.63
Northern America 61.53

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Indicator: Labour force participation rate (ILO modelled estimates) (15+)
Source: International Labour Organization
Licence: ILO Terms of Use (attribution required)
Coverage: 276 places, 10,464 data points, 1990–2027
Last refreshed: 19 August 2026

Imputed observations are not based on national data, are subject to high uncertainty and should not be used for country comparisons or rankings. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. The labour force participation rate is the labour force as a percent of the working-age population. The labour force is the sum of all persons of working age who are employed and those who are unemployed. For more information, refer to the ILO Modelled Estimates (ILOEST) database description.