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Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1997

1997, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1997 covers 187 countries. Tanzania is highest, at 83.586; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at 20.979. The middle country reads 55.754. Against 1996, 186 values changed (95 up, 91 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment-to-Population Ratio · Data for 1997

HighestTanzania

83.586

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

20.979

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, 1997, 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, 1997: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa83.586
2BurundiBDIEastern Africa82.478
3QatarQATWestern Asia82.191
4MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa81.674
5Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia81.208
6MadagascarMDGEastern Africa81.003
7Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa80.716
8NigeriaNGAWestern Africa80.479
9CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia80.034
10North KoreaPRKEastern Asia79.590
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa79.320
12NigerNERWestern Africa77.705
13MalawiMWIEastern Africa77.055
14EritreaERIEastern Africa76.133
15CameroonCMRMiddle Africa75.626
16LiberiaLBRWestern Africa75.459
17ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia74.763
18VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia73.955
19United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia73.918
20ChinaCHNEastern Asia73.315
21AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia72.677
22UgandaUGAEastern Africa71.756
23BeninBENWestern Africa71.164
24IcelandISLNorthern Europe70.790
25VanuatuVUTMelanesia70.522

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tanzania83.586
  2. 2Burundi82.478
  3. 3Qatar82.191
  4. 4Mozambique81.674
  5. 5Solomon Islands81.208

Lowest

  1. 187São Tomé and Príncipe20.979
  2. 186Djibouti25.135
  3. 185Somalia27.570
  4. 184Algeria33.601
  5. 183Jordan34.037

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 55.754. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 186values changed, of 187 in both
  • 95 · 91rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 1997.

  • 186 distinct values among 187

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 41.627. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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) (1997). Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/employment-ratio/1997

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07Questions

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment-to-population ratio in Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1997?

Tanzania, at 83.586, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1997 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment-to-Population Ratio, 1997?

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, 1997 the newest?

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

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