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Labor force participation rate, total (% of total population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate)

Name: Labor force participation rate, total (% of total population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, labor-jobs-occupational-safety, labor, force, participation, rate, total, population

Compare labor force participation rate, total (% of total population ages 15+) (modeled ilo estimate) across 181 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2025.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•181 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

60.8%

Median: 61.7%

Countries Covered

181

with available data

Highest

Qatar

87.0%

Lowest

Sao Tome and Principe

23.3%

Top 5 Countries

1Qatar87.0%

2Madagascar85.5%

3Solomon Islands84.3%

4United Republic of Tanzania83.7%

5Nigeria82.5%

By Region

Oceania68.4%(2 countries)

South America64.7%(7 countries)

North America61.9%(4 countries)

Other60.8%(103 countries)

Europe60.3%(31 countries)

Key Findings

•181 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Qatar has the highest published value (87.013 %).
•Sao Tome and Principe has the lowest published value (23.342 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (23.3%)High (87.0%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 60.8%)

Oceania (2)

South America (7)

North America (4)

Other (103)

Europe (31)

Asia (25)

Africa (9)

Percentile Profile

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

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Labor force participation rate is the proportion of the population ages 15 and older that is economically active: all people who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period.

Values use one fixed 2025 reference year from World Development Indicators series SL.TLF.CACT.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Qatar	87.0%
2	Madagascar	85.5%
3	Solomon Islands	84.3%
4	United Republic of Tanzania	83.7%
5	Nigeria	82.5%
6	Cambodia	82.4%
7	North Korea	82.2%
8	Uganda	80.0%
9	Niger	79.7%
10	Mozambique	78.7%
11	Bolivia	78.6%
12	United Arab Emirates	78.6%
13	Eritrea	78.3%
14	Burundi	78.3%
15	Liberia	76.6%
16	Benin	76.4%
17	Iceland	74.9%
18	Angola	74.8%
19	Bahamas	73.8%
20	Central African Republic	73.4%
21	Kuwait	73.4%
22	Peru	72.9%
23	Vietnam	72.8%
24	Moldova, Republic of	72.3%
25	Bahrain	70.4%
26	New Zealand	70.4%
27	Paraguay	70.2%
28	Burkina Faso	70.0%
29	Singapore	69.7%
30	Jamaica	69.6%
31	Botswana	68.8%
32	Ethiopia	68.5%
33	Oman	68.4%
34	Saint Lucia	68.3%
35	Indonesia	68.0%
36	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	67.9%
37	Macao	67.8%
38	Republic of the Congo	67.8%
39	Kazakhstan	67.8%
40	Zimbabwe	67.7%
41	Kenya	67.4%
42	Netherlands	67.2%
43	Cote d'Ivoire	67.1%
44	Mali	67.0%
45	Timor-Leste	67.0%
46	Cyprus	67.0%
47	Switzerland	66.7%
48	Thailand	66.7%
49	Australia	66.5%
50	Panama	66.3%
51	Malaysia	66.1%
52	Lao People's Democratic Republic	66.1%
53	Nicaragua	66.1%
54	Norway	65.6%
55	Israel	65.5%
56	Cameroon	65.2%
57	Estonia	65.1%
58	Saudi Arabia	65.1%
59	Uruguay	65.0%
60	Denmark	64.9%
61	Ireland	64.8%
62	Dominican Republic	64.8%
63	Bhutan	64.8%
64	Guinea-Bissau	64.8%
65	Barbados	64.7%
66	Sweden	64.6%
67	People's Republic of China	64.6%
68	Canada	64.5%
69	Ecuador	64.5%
70	South Korea	64.4%
71	Georgia	64.3%
72	Democratic Republic of the Congo	64.3%
73	Albania	64.3%
74	Brunei Darussalam	64.2%
75	Malta	64.0%
76	Haiti	63.9%
77	Rwanda	63.7%
78	Maldives	63.5%
79	Japan	63.4%
80	Colombia	63.4%
81	Azerbaijan	63.3%
82	Brazil	63.1%
83	Lithuania	62.9%
84	Belarus	62.7%
85	Malawi	62.6%
86	Chile	62.3%
87	Guam	62.3%
88	El Salvador	62.1%
89	Zambia	61.9%
90	Argentina	61.9%
91	United States of America	61.7%
92	Mexico	61.6%
93	Luxembourg	61.5%
94	United Kingdom	61.4%
95	Philippines	61.4%
96	Russian Federation	61.1%
97	Hungary	60.6%
98	Germany	60.6%
99	Latvia	60.5%
100	Equatorial Guinea	60.5%
101	Slovakia	60.4%
102	Czech Republic	60.3%
103	Austria	60.1%
104	Mongolia	59.7%
105	Finland	59.7%
106	Guatemala	59.6%
107	Chad	59.4%
108	Armenia	59.4%
109	Serbia	59.1%
110	Belize	59.1%
111	Namibia	58.8%
112	Bangladesh	58.8%
113	Mauritius	58.5%
114	Ghana	58.5%
115	Poland	58.3%
116	Portugal	58.2%
117	Vanuatu	58.1%
118	Montenegro	58.0%
119	Togo	57.8%
120	Trinidad and Tobago	57.8%
121	Costa Rica	57.7%
122	Slovenia	57.6%
123	Uzbekistan	57.5%
124	Spain	57.4%
125	Kyrgyzstan	57.4%
126	Fiji	57.2%
127	Lesotho	57.1%
128	Cape Verde	57.0%
129	Honduras	56.6%
130	New Caledonia	56.4%
131	Hong Kong	56.4%
132	Bulgaria	56.1%
133	Comoros	55.8%
134	India	55.7%
135	South Africa	55.6%
136	France	55.3%
137	Myanmar	55.1%
138	Guyana	55.0%
139	Türkiye	54.4%
140	Virgin Islands, U.S.	54.4%
141	Belgium	54.3%
142	Suriname	53.8%
143	Sierra Leone	53.4%
144	Guinea	52.6%
145	French Polynesia	52.4%
146	Pakistan	52.3%
147	Cuba	52.2%
148	Croatia	52.1%
149	Papua New Guinea	52.1%
150	Senegal	52.0%
151	Greece	52.0%
152	The Republic of North Macedonia	51.9%
153	Venezuela	51.9%
154	Romania	51.3%
155	Eswatini	51.2%
156	Gabon	51.1%
157	Tonga	49.8%
158	Italy	49.3%
159	Bosnia and Herzegovina	49.0%
160	Sri Lanka	48.5%
161	Libya	48.0%
162	Republic of The Gambia	47.5%
163	Tunisia	45.2%
164	Egypt	44.6%
165	Morocco	43.9%
166	Puerto Rico	42.8%
167	Samoa	42.5%
168	Turkmenistan	42.0%
169	Iraq	41.5%
170	Islamic Republic of Iran	41.0%
171	Algeria	40.8%
172	Mauritania	40.8%
173	Jordan	40.1%
174	Nepal	39.2%
175	Tajikistan	38.3%
176	Afghanistan	37.5%
177	Syrian Arab Republic	36.9%
178	Somalia	33.8%
179	Yemen	33.1%
180	Djibouti	31.7%
181	Sao Tome and Principe	23.3%

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Topics

#trend-research-200 #world-bank #labor-jobs-occupational-safety #labor #force #participation #rate #total #population

Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).

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