economic2025

Time-related underemployment rate

Compare time-related underemployment rate across 40 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 ILOSTAT reference slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
4.6Percentage
Median: 3.8Percentage
Countries Covered
40
with available data
Highest
Rwanda
18.9Percentage
Lowest
Mongolia
0.1Percentage
Top 5 Countries
1Rwanda18.9Percentage
2Ecuador17.9Percentage
3Argentina12.1Percentage
4Republic of The Gambia9.2Percentage
5Uruguay9.2Percentage
By Region
South America8.8Percentage(7 countries)
Oceania6.0Percentage(1 countries)
Other4.7Percentage(17 countries)
Europe3.9Percentage(7 countries)
Asia1.4Percentage(5 countries)
Key Findings
  • 40 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
  • Rwanda has the highest published value (18.864 Percentage).
  • Mongolia has the lowest published value (0.11 Percentage).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.1Percentage)High (18.9Percentage)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 4.6Percentage)

South America (7)
Oceania (1)
Other (17)
Europe (7)
Asia (5)
North America (2)
Africa (1)

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 time-related underemployment rate conveys the number of persons in time-related underemployment as a percent of the total number of persons in employment. Persons in time-related underemployment comprise all persons in employment, who satisfy the following three criteria during the reference period: a) are willing to work additional hours; b) are available to work additional hours i.e., are ready, within a specified subsequent period, to work additional hours, given opportunities for additional work; and c) worked less than a threshold relating to working time i.e., persons whose hours actually worked in all jobs during the reference period were below a threshold, to be chosen according to national circumstances. 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 time-related underemployment rate conveys the number of persons in time-related underemployment as a percent of the total number of persons in employment. Persons in time-related underemployment comprise all persons in employment, who satisfy the following three criteria during the reference period: a) are willing to work additional hours; b) are available to work additional hours i.e., are ready, within a specified subsequent period, to work additional hours, given opportunities for additional work; and c) worked less than a threshold relating to working time i.e., persons whose hours actually worked in all jobs during the reference period were below a threshold, to be chosen according to national circumstances. For more information, refer to the Labour Force Statistics (LFS and STLFS) database description .

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Rwanda18.9Percentage
2Ecuador17.9Percentage
3Argentina12.1Percentage
4Republic of The Gambia9.2Percentage
5Uruguay9.2Percentage
6Türkiye8.8Percentage
7Bolivia7.7Percentage
8Chile7.1Percentage
9Australia6.0Percentage
10Peru6.0Percentage
11Spain5.9Percentage
12Vanuatu5.2Percentage
13United Kingdom5.1Percentage
14Djibouti5.0Percentage
15Panama4.8Percentage
16Switzerland4.7Percentage
17Portugal4.7Percentage
18Colombia4.6Percentage
19Honduras4.4Percentage
20Brazil4.4Percentage
21El Salvador3.3Percentage
22Greece3.1Percentage
23Austria2.8Percentage
24Costa Rica2.7Percentage
25South Korea2.6Percentage
26Bhutan2.5Percentage
27Seychelles2.0Percentage
28Singapore1.9Percentage
29Dominican Republic1.8Percentage
30State of Palestine1.6Percentage
31Hong Kong1.5Percentage
32Canada1.5Percentage
33The Republic of North Macedonia1.2Percentage
34Angola0.8Percentage
35Poland0.8Percentage
36United States of America0.8Percentage
37Moldova, Republic of0.8Percentage
38Pakistan0.4Percentage
39Thailand0.4Percentage
40Mongolia0.1Percentage
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Data Source

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

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