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Report year 2009Data year 2009
Women aged 15+ in the labour force (%)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by International Labour Organization (ILO)
36 reference years (1990–2025), covering 182 to 187 countries, from the ILO’s modelled estimates via the World Bank’s indicator API (SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS). The share of women aged 15 and over who are working or looking for work; the range runs from under 5% to over 90%, the widest spread of any labour measure here. ⚠ IT COUNTS PAID OR JOB-SEEKING WORK ONLY. Unpaid domestic and care work — which is most of the work women do in much of the world — is invisible to it, so a low figure means few women in the measured labour market, not few women working. ⚠ MODELLED rather than measured, so one definition applies to every country. ⚠ These are not 36 published reports — see `restatedByReport`. No rank is published, so none is stored; the POSITION shown on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score, and labelled as ours.
Female Labour Force Participation Rate 2009 — International Labour Organization (ILO)
Cite as: International Labour Organization. ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST). Geneva: ILOSTAT.
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The share of women aged 15 and over who are working or looking for work — an ILO modelled estimate served through the World Bank's indicator API (SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS). ⚠ It counts PAID or job-seeking work, so unpaid domestic and care work — which is most of the work women do in much of the world — is invisible to it. A low figure means few women in the measured labour market, not few women working. The ILO does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.
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