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Report year 2024Data year 2024
Population aged 15+ in the labour force (%)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by International Labour Organization (ILO)
36 reference years (1990–2025), covering 182 to 187 countries, produced by the ILO and pulled through the World Bank’s indicator API (SL.TLF.CACT.ZS). The share of everyone aged 15 and over who is working or looking for work. This is the TOTAL rate; the site also carries the female rate (SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS), and the distance between the two is one of the clearest measures here of how far women are shut out of paid work. ⚠ It counts PAID or job-seeking work only, so the unpaid domestic and care work that is most of the work done in much of the world is invisible to it. ⚠ MODELLED, not measured. ⚠ The ILO ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score and labelled as ours.
Labour Force Participation Rate 2024 — International Labour Organization (ILO)
Cite as: International Labour Organization. ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST). Geneva: ILOSTAT.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
The share of everyone aged 15 and over who is working or looking for work — an ILO modelled estimate served through the World Bank's indicator API (SL.TLF.CACT.ZS). This is the TOTAL rate; the site also carries the female rate (SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS), and the distance between the two is one of the clearest measures on the site of how far women are shut out of paid work. ⚠ Like the female rate, it counts PAID or job-seeking work only, so the unpaid domestic and care work that is most of the work done in much of the world is invisible to it. The ILO does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.
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