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Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1996

1996, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1996 covers 187 countries. Tanzania is highest, at 83.455; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at 21.062. The middle country reads 55.730. Against 1995, 187 values changed (89 up, 98 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment-to-Population Ratio · Data for 1996

HighestTanzania

83.455

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

21.062

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1996, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 187 countries · select a heading to sort

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1996: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa83.455
2BurundiBDIEastern Africa83.391
3QatarQATWestern Asia83.109
4MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa81.627
5Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia81.102
6Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa80.891
7MadagascarMDGEastern Africa80.858
8NigeriaNGAWestern Africa80.500
9CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia79.741
10North KoreaPRKEastern Asia79.538
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa79.368
12NigerNERWestern Africa77.684
13MalawiMWIEastern Africa76.849
14EritreaERIEastern Africa75.985
15VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia75.625
16CameroonCMRMiddle Africa75.508
17LiberiaLBRWestern Africa75.329
18ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia74.686
19United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia74.636
20AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia73.986
21ChinaCHNEastern Asia73.892
22IcelandISLNorthern Europe71.705
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa71.641
24BeninBENWestern Africa71.100
25VanuatuVUTMelanesia70.676

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tanzania83.455
  2. 2Burundi83.391
  3. 3Qatar83.109
  4. 4Mozambique81.627
  5. 5Solomon Islands81.102

Lowest

  1. 187São Tomé and Príncipe21.062
  2. 186Djibouti25.270
  3. 185Somalia27.350
  4. 184Algeria32.599
  5. 183North Macedonia33.051

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 55.730. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 89 · 98rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1996.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 187 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (1996). Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/employment-ratio/1996

0635 held

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07Questions

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment-to-population ratio in Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1996?

Tanzania, at 83.455, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1996 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1996?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1996 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2025.

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