Employment-to-Population Ratio 1997

Report year 1997·Data year 1997

Employed share of the population aged 15+ (%)·Higher is better — rank 1 leads·Published by International Labour Organization (ILO)

35 reference years (1991–2025), covering 182 to 187 countries, produced by the ILO and pulled through the World Bank’s indicator API (SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS). The share of everyone aged 15 and over who is in work. ⚠ IT ANSWERS WHAT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE CANNOT: unemployment counts only people actively seeking work, so a country where people have given up looking can post a flattering unemployment rate while very few of its adults have jobs. This measures jobs against the whole adult population and does not depend on how a country defines job-seeking. ⚠ It is not a pure good — some of the gap between countries is students and pensioners rather than idleness, and a high ratio can reflect an absence of pensions. ⚠ MODELLED, not measured. ⚠ The ILO ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score and labelled as ours.

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