Potential labour force rate 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
Potential labour force rate is currently reported for 1 countries. The highest value is 8.73 in Caribbean; the lowest is 8.73 in Caribbean.
The median across all reporting countries is 8.73, and the mean is 8.73.
Potential labour force rate: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Caribbean | 8.73 | 2027 | up 2.8% | falling |
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 17.73
- Southern Africa 15.06
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Upper-middle income 14.51
- Africa: Upper-middle income 13.44
- CARICOM 12.73
- Northern Africa: Upper-middle income 11.34
- Southern Asia: Upper-middle income 10.13
- Asia and the Pacific: Low income 9.71
- Arab League 9.63
- Northern Africa 9.55
- Latin America and the Caribbean: Lower-middle income 9.54
- Americas: Lower-middle income 9.54
- MENA 9.51
- Arab States 9.17
- Northern Africa: Lower-middle income 9.1
- Central Africa 7.5
- Africa 6.59
- Africa: Lower-middle income 6.5
- World: Low income 6.49
- Sub-Saharan Africa 6.13
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Lower-middle income 5.98
- Latin America and the Caribbean: High income 5.81
- Arab States: High income 5.72
- Eastern Europe: Upper-middle income 5.56
- Eastern Africa 5.52
- Africa: Low income 5.35
- Arab States: Lower-middle income 5.25
- World: Upper-middle income excluding China 5.22
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Low income 5.15
- Latin America and the Caribbean 4.97
- South America 4.96
- Southern Europe 4.84
- Western Africa 4.8
- Western Asia 4.8
- Europe and Central Asia: Upper-middle income 4.72
- Latin America and the Caribbean: Upper-middle income 4.57
- Americas: Upper-middle income 4.57
- Pacific Islands 4.51
- Central and Western Asia: Upper-middle income 4.48
- World: Lower-middle income excluding India 4.44
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. The potential labour force refers to persons not in employment who express an interest in this form of work but for whom existing conditions limit their active job search and/or their availability. This group is used to calculate alternative measures of labour underutilization. For more information, refer to the Labour Force Statistics (LFS and STLFS) database description.