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Employment in Industry, 1999

1999, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment in Industry, 1999 covers 187 countries. United Arab Emirates is highest, at 42.802; South Sudan is lowest, at 1.904. The middle country reads 21.408. Against 1998, 187 values changed (66 up, 121 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment in Industry · Data for 1999

HighestUnited Arab Emirates

42.802

LowestSouth Sudan

1.904

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, 1999, 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, 1999: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia42.802
2CzechiaCZEEastern Europe42.716
3SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe38.792
4IranIRNSouthern Asia36.799
5PortugalPRTSouthern Europe35.583
6QatarQATWestern Asia35.575
7HungaryHUNEastern Europe34.618
8BelarusBLREastern Europe34.499
9North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe34.078
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe33.835
11SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe33.686
12MauritiusMUSEastern Africa33.648
13BulgariaBGREastern Europe33.001
14MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia32.955
15MaltaMLTSouthern Europe32.713
16ItalyITASouthern Europe32.376
17RomaniaROUEastern Europe32.274
18EstoniaESTNorthern Europe31.640
19TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa31.382
20PolandPOLEastern Europe31.086
21SpainESPSouthern Europe30.678
22JapanJPNEastern Asia30.571
23Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe30.315
24TongaTONPolynesia29.611
25RussiaRUSEastern Europe29.061

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United Arab Emirates42.802
  2. 2Czechia42.716
  3. 3Slovakia38.792
  4. 4Iran36.799
  5. 5Portugal35.583

Lowest

  1. 187South Sudan1.904
  2. 186Burundi2.238
  3. 185Laos2.817
  4. 184Chad2.900
  5. 183Mozambique3.071

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 21.408. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 66 · 121rose · 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 1999.

  • 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) (1999). Employment in Industry, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/industry-employment/1999

0635 held

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07Questions

Employment in Industry, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment in industry in Employment in Industry, 1999?

United Arab Emirates, at 42.802, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment in Industry, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Employment in Industry, 1999 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment in Industry, 1999?

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, 1999 the newest?

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

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