Potential labour force and willing non-jobseekers rate (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 rate: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
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Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Arab States: Low income 18.12
- Southern Africa 15.43
- CARICOM 15.39
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Upper-middle income 14.94
- Latin America and the Caribbean: Lower-middle income 13.97
- Americas: Lower-middle income 13.97
- Africa: Upper-middle income 13.78
- Northern Africa: Upper-middle income 11.49
- Caribbean 11.47
- Central Africa 10.79
- Southern Asia: Upper-middle income 10.36
- Arab League 10.32
- Latin America and the Caribbean: High income 10.19
- MENA 10.07
- Asia and the Pacific: Low income 10.07
- Arab States 10.02
- Northern Africa 10.01
- World: Low income 9.77
- Northern Africa: Lower-middle income 9.64
- Eastern Africa 9.38
- Africa 9.38
- Sub-Saharan Africa 9.28
- Africa: Low income 9.18
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Low income 9.16
- Africa: Lower-middle income 8.87
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Lower-middle income 8.72
- Latin America and the Caribbean 8.02
- Central America 7.85
- South America 7.77
- Western Africa 7.58
- Latin America and the Caribbean: Upper-middle income 7.42
- Americas: Upper-middle income 7.42
- World: Upper-middle income excluding China 7.2
- Western Asia 6.95
- Arab States: High income 6.75
- Central and Western Asia: Upper-middle income 6.69
- Eastern Europe: Upper-middle income 6.69
- Western Europe 6.57
- Europe and Central Asia: Upper-middle income 6.53
- Southern Europe 6.53
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. The rate refers to this group divided by the sum of the extended labour force and willing non-jobseekers. For more information, refer to the ILO Modelled Estimates (ILOEST) database description.