Labour Force Participation Rate

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: labour-participation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Labour Force Participation Rate: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	182	0
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
Population aged 15+ in the labour force (%)labour_participationHeadline	The headline figure: Population aged 15+ in the labour force (%).	Number · up to 3 decimals	23.342São Tomé and Príncipe87.013Qatarmiddle 61.657	181	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.

The newest 12 of 36 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.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoDominicaFaroe IslandsGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSan MarinoSeychellesSint MaartenSomalilandTaiwanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   International Labour Organization (ILO)

   ilostat.ilo.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Labour Force Participation Rate 2025

   SL.TLF.CACT.ZS

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 10, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   36 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as labour-participation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/labour-participation

An ILO modelled estimate, pulled through the World Bank’s indicator API (SL.TLF.CACT.ZS). Modelled rather than measured so that one definition applies to every country.