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
- •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
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 4.6Percentage)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rwanda | 18.9Percentage |
| 2 | Ecuador | 17.9Percentage |
| 3 | Argentina | 12.1Percentage |
| 4 | Republic of The Gambia | 9.2Percentage |
| 5 | Uruguay | 9.2Percentage |
| 6 | Türkiye | 8.8Percentage |
| 7 | Bolivia | 7.7Percentage |
| 8 | Chile | 7.1Percentage |
| 9 | Australia | 6.0Percentage |
| 10 | Peru | 6.0Percentage |
| 11 | Spain | 5.9Percentage |
| 12 | Vanuatu | 5.2Percentage |
| 13 | United Kingdom | 5.1Percentage |
| 14 | Djibouti | 5.0Percentage |
| 15 | Panama | 4.8Percentage |
| 16 | Switzerland | 4.7Percentage |
| 17 | Portugal | 4.7Percentage |
| 18 | Colombia | 4.6Percentage |
| 19 | Honduras | 4.4Percentage |
| 20 | Brazil | 4.4Percentage |
| 21 | El Salvador | 3.3Percentage |
| 22 | Greece | 3.1Percentage |
| 23 | Austria | 2.8Percentage |
| 24 | Costa Rica | 2.7Percentage |
| 25 | South Korea | 2.6Percentage |
| 26 | Bhutan | 2.5Percentage |
| 27 | Seychelles | 2.0Percentage |
| 28 | Singapore | 1.9Percentage |
| 29 | Dominican Republic | 1.8Percentage |
| 30 | State of Palestine | 1.6Percentage |
| 31 | Hong Kong | 1.5Percentage |
| 32 | Canada | 1.5Percentage |
| 33 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 1.2Percentage |
| 34 | Angola | 0.8Percentage |
| 35 | Poland | 0.8Percentage |
| 36 | United States of America | 0.8Percentage |
| 37 | Moldova, Republic of | 0.8Percentage |
| 38 | Pakistan | 0.4Percentage |
| 39 | Thailand | 0.4Percentage |
| 40 | Mongolia | 0.1Percentage |
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Data Source
This data comes from International Labour Organization (ILO) (2025).
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