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Collective bargaining coverage rate

Compare collective bargaining coverage rate across 43 countries or territories using one fixed 2019 ILOSTAT reference slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
32.1Percentage
Median: 23.8Percentage
Countries Covered
43
with available data
Highest
Italy
99.0Percentage
Lowest
Ethiopia
1.0Percentage
Top 5 Countries
1Italy99.0Percentage
2Austria98.0Percentage
3Belgium96.0Percentage
4Iceland90.0Percentage
5Sweden90.0Percentage
By Region
South America57.7Percentage(1 countries)
Europe55.3Percentage(14 countries)
Other25.5Percentage(14 countries)
Oceania18.4Percentage(1 countries)
North America17.4Percentage(3 countries)
Key Findings
  • 43 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage observation in the fixed 2019 slice.
  • Italy has the highest published value (99 Percentage).
  • Ethiopia has the lowest published value (1 Percentage).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (1.0Percentage)High (99.0Percentage)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 32.1Percentage)

South America (1)
Europe (14)
Other (14)
Oceania (1)
North America (3)
Africa (5)
Asia (5)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

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About This Statistic

The collective bargaining coverage rate conveys the number of employees whose pay and/or conditions of employment are determined by one or more collective agreement(s) as a percentage of the total number of employees. Collective bargaining coverage includes, to the extent possible, workers covered by collective agreements in virtue of their extension. Collective bargaining coverage rates are adjusted for the possibility that some workers do not have the right to bargain collectively over wages (e.g. workers in the public services who have their wages determined by state regulation or other methods involving consultation), unless otherwise stated in the notes. The statistics presented in this table result from an ILO data compilation effort (including an annual questionnaire and numerous special enquiries), with contributions from J. Visser. For more information, refer to the Industrial Relations data (IRdata) database description .

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2019 ILOSTAT slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

The collective bargaining coverage rate conveys the number of employees whose pay and/or conditions of employment are determined by one or more collective agreement(s) as a percentage of the total number of employees. Collective bargaining coverage includes, to the extent possible, workers covered by collective agreements in virtue of their extension. Collective bargaining coverage rates are adjusted for the possibility that some workers do not have the right to bargain collectively over wages (e.g. workers in the public services who have their wages determined by state regulation or other methods involving consultation), unless otherwise stated in the notes. The statistics presented in this table result from an ILO data compilation effort (including an annual questionnaire and numerous special enquiries), with contributions from J. Visser. For more information, refer to the Industrial Relations data (IRdata) database description .

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Italy99.0Percentage
2Austria98.0Percentage
3Belgium96.0Percentage
4Iceland90.0Percentage
5Sweden90.0Percentage
6Netherlands75.6Percentage
7Tunisia62.9Percentage
8Brazil57.7Percentage
9Germany51.8Percentage
10Moldova, Republic of42.5Percentage
11Namibia40.2Percentage
12Ukraine39.7Percentage
13Ghana37.1Percentage
14Botswana33.8Percentage
15Czech Republic32.1Percentage
16Canada30.2Percentage
17Uganda30.2Percentage
18South Africa30.1Percentage
19Russian Federation28.5Percentage
20Latvia27.3Percentage
21United Kingdom26.9Percentage
22Togo23.8Percentage
23Zambia23.5Percentage
24Slovakia22.4Percentage
25Armenia19.4Percentage
26Trinidad and Tobago19.4Percentage
27New Zealand18.4Percentage
28Hungary17.8Percentage
29Japan16.8Percentage
30South Korea15.6Percentage
31United States of America11.6Percentage
32Mexico10.4Percentage
33Costa Rica10.3Percentage
34Senegal10.1Percentage
35Kenya9.7Percentage
36Lithuania7.4Percentage
37Türkiye7.4Percentage
38Rwanda5.7Percentage
39Sri Lanka3.2Percentage
40Morocco2.9Percentage
41Thailand2.4Percentage
42Bangladesh1.6Percentage
43Ethiopia1.0Percentage
Showing 43 of 43 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from International Labour Organization (ILO) (2019).

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