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Report year 2017Data year 2017
Fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workersHigher is worse — rank 1 is worst affectedPublished by International Labour Organization (ILO)
23 reference years (2000–2023), covering 51 to 71 countries, SDG indicator 8.8.1 read from ILOSTAT directly (SDG_F881_SEX_MIG_RT), with the female and male figures beside the headline. ⚠ THIS IS A REPORTING MEASURE AS MUCH AS A SAFETY ONE, and the trap is severe enough to state twice: a country with a functioning labour inspectorate that investigates every workplace death records MORE of them than a country that records almost none. The countries most dangerous to work in are largely ABSENT from this table. ⚠ Only 99 countries report at all and no year reaches 80, so this series uses a 50-country floor; 2008 and 2024 fall below even that and are not imported. ⚠ NO POSITION IS DERIVED, deliberately: numbering these rows 1, 2, 3 would read as "the safest countries in the world" when it is closer to "the countries that count carefully".
Fatal Occupational Injuries 2017 — International Labour Organization (ILO)
Cite as: International Labour Organization. ILOSTAT. Geneva: ILO.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Deaths from injuries at work per 100,000 workers — SDG indicator 8.8.1, reported by national labour inspectorates to the ILO and read from ILOSTAT directly (SDG_F881_SEX_MIG_RT). ⚠ THIS IS A REPORTING MEASURE AS MUCH AS A SAFETY ONE, and the trap is severe: a country with a functioning inspectorate that investigates every workplace death will record MORE than one that records almost none. The countries most dangerous to work in are largely absent from this table. It is published with that caveat rather than as a ranking. ⚠ Only 102 countries report at all, and no year reaches 80, so this series uses a 50-country floor. The ILO does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.
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