Dataset · ILO
Labour Income Share
22 years, 2004–2025 · 182 countries
The labour income share is how much of a country's national income is paid to workers, rather than going to capital as profit, interest and rent. It is one of the few openly licensed measures of how an economy's output is divided.
This site holds every year from 2004 to 2025, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Labour Income Share · the file
- Newest
- Labour Income Share, 2025
- Held
- 22 years · 4,100 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0122 years
Every year
Every year comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Income Share, 2025Newest | 182 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2024 | 182 | −2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2023 | 184 | −2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2022 | 186 | −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2021 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2020 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2019 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2018 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2017 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2016 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2015 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2014 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 22 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Income Share, 2013 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2012 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2011 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2010 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2009 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2008 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2007 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2006 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2005 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Labour Income Share, 2004 | 187 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: labour-income-share-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 182 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 182 | 0 | |
Labour income share of GDP (%)labour_income_shareHeadline | The headline figure: Labour income share of GDP (%). | Number · up to 3 decimals | 9.691 | 182 | 0 | |
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlag | ILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure. | Text | — | 2 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03187 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 52 | 51 | 51 |
| Americas | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 |
| Asia | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 50 | 49 | 49 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 |
| Oceania | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| All | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 186 | 184 | 182 | 182 |
The newest 12 of 22 years.
Not in this dataset · 38 places this site covers
ILO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
International Labour Organization (ILO)
2 · Their file
Labour Income Share 2025
Read from the publisher’s own service.3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
22 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as labour-income-share-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/labour-income-shareA key for Work & Labour in the Country Index.
Precision
The headline is stored to 3 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
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.
An ILO modelled estimate read from ILOSTAT directly. Values the ILO flags as model-based extrapolation are kept and marked as such in their own column; years beyond the current one are not imported at all.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 10, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), Labour Income Share, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
International Labour Organization (ILO). Labour Income Share, 2004–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/labour-income-share
The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. ILO modelled estimates. Geneva: ILOSTAT.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Labour Income Share: questions and answers
What is the Labour Income Share?
The labour income share is how much of a country's national income is paid to workers, rather than going to capital as profit, interest and rent. It is one of the few openly licensed measures of how an economy's output is divided.
Which years of the Labour Income Share can I download?
All 22, from 2004 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does ILO rank countries on it?
No. ILO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to ILO. The licence text is linked on this page.