Potential labour force and willing non-jobseekers (ILO modelled estimates) by country
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 potential labour force and willing non-jobseekers includes those who have been recently searching for a job but are...
Potential labour force and willing non-jobseekers: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 224,727
- G20 180,997
- World excluding India and China 165,645
- World excluding BRICS 123,203
- BRICS 101,228
- Asia and the Pacific 90,260
- World: Upper-middle income 84,690
- World: Lower-middle income 76,264
- Africa 67,168
- APEC 62,554
- Sub-Saharan Africa 57,792
- World: Upper-middle income excluding China 53,225
- World: Lower-middle income excluding India 48,647
- Asia and the Pacific: Upper-middle income 45,973
- Southern Asia 41,050
- Asia and the Pacific: Lower-middle income 38,212
- Southern Asia: Lower-middle income 35,228
- Eastern Asia 34,780
- World: Low income 33,107
- Africa: Lower-middle income 33,069
- Americas 31,989
- Eastern Asia: Upper-middle income 31,540
- World: High income 30,666
- Latin America and the Caribbean 28,899
- Europe and Central Asia 27,376
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Lower-middle income 27,184
- Africa: Low income 26,480
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Low income 25,131
- Eastern Africa 24,083
- Latin America and the Caribbean: Upper-middle income 23,283
- Americas: Upper-middle income 23,283
- MENA 20,738
- Europe and Central Asia: High income 19,816
- South America 18,860
- Arab League 18,522
- Western Africa 17,702
- European Union 28 15,781
- Northern, Southern and Western Europe 15,311
- Northern, Southern and Western Europe: High income 14,959
- South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific 14,429
About this data
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 potential labour force and willing non-jobseekers includes those who have been recently searching for a job but are not available to work within a short reference period, those who have not searched recently for a job, but they are available to work within a short reference period, and finally those who do not fall in neither of the previous categories but that wanted employment. For more information, refer to the ILO Modelled Estimates (ILOEST) database description.