economic2025

Potential labour force and willing non-jobseekers rate

Compare potential labour force and willing non-jobseekers rate across 30 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 ILOSTAT reference slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
7.1Percentage
Median: 5.4Percentage
Countries Covered
30
with available data
Highest
Djibouti
23.4Percentage
Lowest
Moldova, Republic of
1.3Percentage
Top 5 Countries
1Djibouti23.4Percentage
2Angola18.6Percentage
3Republic of The Gambia17.7Percentage
4Burkina Faso17.2Percentage
5Chile13.9Percentage
By Region
Africa18.6Percentage(1 countries)
Other7.9Percentage(15 countries)
South America7.9Percentage(4 countries)
Europe5.7Percentage(6 countries)
Asia2.5Percentage(2 countries)
Key Findings
  • 30 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
  • Djibouti has the highest published value (23.4 Percentage).
  • Moldova, Republic of has the lowest published value (1.3 Percentage).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (1.3Percentage)High (23.4Percentage)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 7.1Percentage)

Africa (1)
Other (15)
South America (4)
Europe (6)
Asia (2)
North America (2)

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

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 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 Labour Force Statistics (LFS and STLFS) database description .

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 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

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 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 Labour Force Statistics (LFS and STLFS) database description .

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Djibouti23.4Percentage
2Angola18.6Percentage
3Republic of The Gambia17.7Percentage
4Burkina Faso17.2Percentage
5Chile13.9Percentage
6Rwanda10.5Percentage
7Switzerland8.9Percentage
8Vanuatu7.7Percentage
9Honduras7.4Percentage
10Brazil7.4Percentage
11The Republic of North Macedonia7.0Percentage
12Austria6.9Percentage
13Colombia6.0Percentage
14United Kingdom5.7Percentage
15Mongolia5.4Percentage
16Spain5.3Percentage
17Bhutan5.3Percentage
18Uruguay4.2Percentage
19Russian Federation4.1Percentage
20Serbia4.0Percentage
21El Salvador3.9Percentage
22Greece3.5Percentage
23Seychelles2.8Percentage
24Singapore2.8Percentage
25State of Palestine2.7Percentage
26Canada2.5Percentage
27Pakistan2.2Percentage
28Saint Lucia2.1Percentage
29United States of America1.4Percentage
30Moldova, Republic of1.3Percentage
Showing 30 of 30 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from International Labour Organization (ILO) (2025).

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