Dataset · ILO
Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons
Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons, 2024 compilation · 86 countries
This counts the labour inspectors a country employs for every 10,000 people in work — the officials who enforce labour law on safety, wages and working hours. It is the International Labour Organization’s basic measure of a state’s capacity to inspect workplaces.
This site holds one edition, Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons, 2024 compilation, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons · the file
- Newest
- Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons, 2024 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 86 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
01One edition
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons, 2024 compilation | 86 | — | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: labour-inspectors-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
026 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, 2024 | 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 | — | 86 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 86 | 0 | |
Reference yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 13 | 0 | |
Labour inspectors per 10,000 employed personsinspectors_per_10000Headline | The headline figure: Labour inspectors per 10,000 employed persons. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.072 share it3.89 | 67 | 0 | |
Source (ILO)data_sourceLabel | The ministry, agency or register the count comes from, in the ILO’s own words — which explains some of the widest differences between rows. | Text | — | 63 | 0 | |
What the source covers (ILO notes)coverage_notesLabel | What that count leaves out, where the ILO records it — for example some areas of the country, or the public sector. | Text | — | 11 | 64 |
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.
0386 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 8 |
| Americas | 22 |
| Asia | 23 |
| Europe | 31 |
| Oceania | 2 |
| All | 86 |
One edition, covering 86 countries.
Not in this dataset · 139 places this site covers
ILO gives no figure for these in any edition 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 Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons 2024
Read from the publisher’s own service.3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: labour-inspectors-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 2 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.
Administrative returns from national labour ministries, read from ILOSTAT directly.
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 October 3, 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 Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
International Labour Organization (ILO). Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons, Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons, 2024 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/labour-inspectors
The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. ILOSTAT. Geneva: ILO.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Employment-to-Population RatioILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
- Unemployment RateILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
- Vulnerable EmploymentILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
07Questions
Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons: questions and answers
What is the Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons?
This counts the labour inspectors a country employs for every 10,000 people in work — the officials who enforce labour law on safety, wages and working hours. It is the International Labour Organization’s basic measure of a state’s capacity to inspect workplaces.
Which editions of the Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons can I download?
One: Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons, 2024 compilation, as a CSV file.
Does ILO rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to ILO. The licence text is linked on this page.