Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2015

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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2015: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).

Positionderived	Country	Composite rate of labour underutilisation, LU4 (% of the extended labour force)	Women (%)	Men (%)	ILO observation status
1	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	39.976	43.83	36.054	—
2	Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe	39.543	45.28	35.497	—
3	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	38.716	42.09	35.913	—
4	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	37.955	42.89	33.637	—
5	PalestinePSEWestern Asia	33.300	51.77	27.578	—
6	SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	33.278	35.10	31.801	—
7	GreeceGRCSouthern Europe	32.786	38.44	28.144	—
8	SpainESPSouthern Europe	32.545	38.13	27.546	—
9	North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe	31.492	31.41	31.550	—
10	CyprusCYPWestern Asia	30.614	31.01	30.234	—
11	MontenegroMNESouthern Europe	28.645	29.81	27.656	—
12	CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe	26.146	27.93	24.523	—
13	ItalyITASouthern Europe	26.115	30.97	22.255	—
14	Costa RicaCRICentral America	25.798	34.87	19.177	—
15	ChileCHLSouth America	24.348	30.28	19.794	—
16	PortugalPRTSouthern Europe	23.681	25.69	21.729	—
17	FranceFRAWestern Europe	21.721	23.68	19.897	—
18	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	20.169	20.38	19.966	—
19	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean	19.878	27.29	14.423	Break in series
20	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	18.766	19.62	17.757	Break in series
21	UruguayURYSouth America	18.130	22.08	14.729	—
22	LatviaLVANorthern Europe	17.825	17.60	18.049	—
23	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	17.609	19.73	15.784	—
24	NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe	17.463	20.82	14.515	—
25	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	17.291	16.95	17.570	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.816. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Women (%)

  HighestPalestine51.77

  LowestThailand1.51

  Middle country: 16.53

• Men (%)

  HighestArmenia36.054

  LowestThailand1.703

  Middle country: 13.523

• +6 / −10countries joined / left
• 56values changed, of 56 in both
• 20 · 36rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Barbados+ Dominican Republic+ Ghana+ Palestine+ Seychelles+ Togo− Afghanistan− Burundi− Brunei− Comoros− Micronesia− South Korea− Rwanda− Sierra Leone− Yemen− Zimbabwe

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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  https://rplumber.ilo.org/data/indicator/?id=LUU_XLU4_SEX_RT&format=.csv&channel=ilostat

What this site changed: 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.

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