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Employment in Industry, 1998

1998, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment in Industry, 1998 covers 187 countries. Czechia is highest, at 43.3703; South Sudan is lowest, at 1.8999. The middle country reads 21.6076. Against 1997, 187 values changed (67 up, 120 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment in Industry · Data for 1998

HighestCzechia

43.3703

LowestSouth Sudan

1.8999

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, 1998, 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, 1998: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1CzechiaCZEEastern Europe43.3703
2United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia43.1031
3SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe39.7018
4IranIRNSouthern Asia36.8198
5PortugalPRTSouthern Europe36.6530
6SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe35.5050
7HungaryHUNEastern Europe35.1342
8BulgariaBGREastern Europe34.9643
9BelarusBLREastern Europe34.8132
10QatarQATWestern Asia34.6485
11GermanyDEUWestern Europe34.3902
12North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe34.3353
13RomaniaROUEastern Europe34.0719
14MauritiusMUSEastern Africa33.4036
15MaltaMLTSouthern Europe33.1713
16MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia33.0435
17EstoniaESTNorthern Europe32.9518
18ItalyITASouthern Europe32.7293
19PolandPOLEastern Europe31.5047
20TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa31.1718
21JapanJPNEastern Asia30.9280
22SpainESPSouthern Europe30.5093
23Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe30.4893
24TongaTONPolynesia29.5597
25CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe29.4616

02In 1998

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Czechia43.3703
  2. 2United Arab Emirates43.1031
  3. 3Slovakia39.7018
  4. 4Iran36.8198
  5. 5Portugal36.6530

Lowest

  1. 187South Sudan1.8999
  2. 186Burundi2.1976
  3. 185Laos2.6238
  4. 184Chad2.7780
  5. 183Mozambique3.0026

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 21.6076. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 67 · 120rose · 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 1998.

  • 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) (1998). Employment in Industry, 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/industry-employment/1998

0635 held

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07Questions

Employment in Industry, 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment in industry in Employment in Industry, 1998?

Czechia, at 43.3703, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment in Industry, 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Employment in Industry, 1998 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment in Industry, 1998?

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, 1998 the newest?

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

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