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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.

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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.

2004bar height: countries covered, up to 1872025
Every year of Labour Income Share held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Labour Income Share, 2025Newest182±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2024182−2September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2023184−2September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2022186−1September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2021187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2020187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2019187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2018187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2017187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2016187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2015187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2014187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Show all 22 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Labour Income Share, 2013187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2012187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2011187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2010187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2009187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2008187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2007187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2006187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2005187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Income Share, 2004187—September 29, 2026CSV

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.

Every column in the newest file of Labour Income Share: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1820
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1820
Labour income share of GDP (%)labour_income_shareHeadlineThe headline figure: Labour income share of GDP (%).Number · up to 3 decimals9.691Venezuela75.126Nigeriamiddle 46.2301820
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlagILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure.Text—20

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Labour Income Share, by continent.
201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Africa535353535353535353525151
Americas333333333333333333333333
Asia515151515151515151504949
Europe393939393939393938383838
Oceania111111111111111111111111
All187187187187187187187187186184182182

The newest 12 of 22 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    − Lebanon− South Sudan
  • 2023
    − Palestine− Sudan
  • 2022
    − Ukraine

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    International Labour Organization (ILO)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Labour Income Share 2025

    Read from the publisher’s own service.
  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 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.csv
  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 10, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • 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.

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