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Employment in Industry, 1997

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

Employment in Industry, 1997 covers 187 countries. Czechia is highest, at 43.897; South Sudan is lowest, at 1.885. The middle country reads 22.001. Against 1996, 187 values changed (78 up, 109 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment in Industry · Data for 1997

HighestCzechia

43.897

LowestSouth Sudan

1.885

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Employment in Industry, 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 in Industry, 1997: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1CzechiaCZEEastern Europe43.897
2United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia43.242
3SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe39.813
4IranIRNSouthern Asia37.046
5SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe36.592
6BulgariaBGREastern Europe36.342
7RomaniaROUEastern Europe35.744
8MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia34.904
9BelarusBLREastern Europe34.836
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe34.674
11North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe34.534
12HungaryHUNEastern Europe33.600
13EstoniaESTNorthern Europe33.442
14MaltaMLTSouthern Europe33.399
15QatarQATWestern Asia33.243
16MauritiusMUSEastern Africa32.847
17ItalyITASouthern Europe32.628
18South KoreaKOREastern Asia32.447
19PortugalPRTSouthern Europe32.068
20JapanJPNEastern Asia31.958
21PolandPOLEastern Europe31.791
22TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa31.012
23Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe30.210
24RussiaRUSEastern Europe30.060
25SpainESPSouthern Europe29.913

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Czechia43.897
  2. 2United Arab Emirates43.242
  3. 3Slovakia39.813
  4. 4Iran37.046
  5. 5Slovenia36.592

Lowest

  1. 187South Sudan1.885
  2. 186Burundi2.198
  3. 185Laos2.569
  4. 184Chad2.612
  5. 183Mozambique2.940

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 22.001. “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
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 78 · 109rose · 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 1997.

  • 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 in Industry, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/industry-employment/1997

0635 held

Other years

07Questions

Employment in Industry, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment in industry in Employment in Industry, 1997?

Czechia, at 43.897, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment in Industry, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Employment in Industry, 1997 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment in Industry, 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 in Industry, 1997 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Employment in Industry, 2025.

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