Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2017

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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2017: 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	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	40.53	45.902	34.826	Break in series
2	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	39.50	44.062	35.493	—
3	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	37.36	40.985	33.715	—
4	NepalNPLSouthern Asia	36.37	45.259	29.342	Break in series
5	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	35.54	50.544	30.101	—
6	PalestinePSEWestern Asia	32.89	55.386	26.309	—
7	Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe	32.51	37.537	28.992	—
8	SenegalSENWestern Africa	29.65	41.039	17.317	—
9	GreeceGRCSouthern Europe	29.57	36.374	23.969	—
10	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	28.73	30.015	27.699	—
11	North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe	28.37	29.062	27.907	—
12	SpainESPSouthern Europe	27.16	32.550	22.336	—
13	New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia	27.11	33.350	21.706	—
14	SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	26.45	27.609	25.498	—
15	MontenegroMNESouthern Europe	25.31	27.325	23.653	—
16	ChileCHLSouth America	24.73	29.480	21.056	Break in series
17	MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	24.63	29.492	21.343	—
18	JordanJORWestern Asia	24.49	39.252	20.126	Break in series
19	Costa RicaCRICentral America	24.40	32.596	18.520	—
20	ItalyITASouthern Europe	23.79	28.334	20.174	—
21	BrazilBRASouth America	23.61	28.330	19.798	—
22	CyprusCYPWestern Asia	23.59	24.424	22.808	—
23	FranceFRAWestern Europe	19.99	22.292	17.834	—
24	CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe	19.82	22.627	17.212	—
25	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	19.55	20.027	19.109	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.10. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Women (%)

  HighestPalestine55.386

  LowestThailand1.829

  Middle country: 15.863

• Men (%)

  HighestSouth Africa35.493

  LowestThailand2.159

  Middle country: 12.265

• +16 / −6countries joined / left
• 61values changed, of 61 in both
• 10 · 51rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Afghanistan+ Bangladesh+ Belarus+ Brunei+ Jordan+ Laos+ Liberia+ Mauritania+ New Caledonia+ Nepal+ Philippines+ Rwanda+ Togo+ Uganda+ Samoa+ Zambia− Cook Islands− Maldives− Paraguay− Suriname− Eswatini− Seychelles

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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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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