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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2018

2018, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2018 covers 73 countries on 3 measures. South Africa is highest, at 40.042; Thailand is lowest, at 1.844. The middle country reads 12.507. Against 2017, 64 values changed (15 up, 49 down), 9 countries joined, 13 left.

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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4) · Data for 2018

HighestSouth Africa

40.042

LowestThailand

1.844

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2018, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2018: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa40.04244.61336.000—
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa38.53244.33132.424—
3GuyanaGUYSouth America34.99041.11530.173Break in series
4PalestinePSEWestern Asia34.77657.29027.768—
5Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe29.67134.75226.224—
6HondurasHNDCentral America29.60339.52821.913Break in series
7North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe27.10627.36826.930—
8GreeceGRCSouthern Europe27.08934.12221.364—
9AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe26.36428.87224.272—
10MontenegroMNESouthern Europe25.60927.91723.693—
11Costa RicaCRICentral America25.42533.21719.736—
12ChileCHLSouth America24.56829.43620.777—
13SpainESPSouthern Europe24.49630.15019.434—
14BrazilBRASouth America24.11828.82420.290—
15New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia23.49426.66220.818—
16SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe23.40324.50722.501—
17JordanJORWestern Asia23.25133.21720.941—
18ItalyITASouthern Europe22.50827.02718.914—
19ZambiaZMBEastern Africa21.54223.32919.877Break in series
20GrenadaGRDCaribbean19.94822.56117.704—
21UruguayURYSouth America19.43923.00416.320—
22FranceFRAWestern Europe19.21221.46017.092—
23Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa18.23521.80715.005—
24CyprusCYPWestern Asia18.03219.34516.819—
25FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.72718.40317.098—

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1South Africa40.042
  2. 2Rwanda38.532
  3. 3Guyana34.990
  4. 4Palestine34.776
  5. 5Bosnia and Herzegovina29.671

Lowest

  1. 73Thailand1.844
  2. 72Moldova3.064
  3. 71Czechia3.367
  4. 70Myanmar3.576
  5. 69United Arab Emirates4.026

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 12.507. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −13countries joined / left
  • 64values changed, of 64 in both
  • 15 · 49rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ United Arab Emirates+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Burkina Faso+ Grenada+ Guyana+ Honduras+ Myanmar+ Sierra Leone+ Tonga− Afghanistan− Armenia− Bangladesh− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire− Laos− Liberia− Mauritania− Nepal− Senegal− Togo− Uganda− Samoa

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.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2018.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • 68 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

  • Some readings carry a flag

    ILO marks readings it considers estimates or provisional. The flags in this file: Break in series.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (2018). Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/labour-underutilisation/2018

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07Questions

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest labour underutilisation in Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2018?

South Africa, at 40.042, of the 73 countries in the file.

What year does Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2018 cover?

73.

Where can I download Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2018?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2018 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2024.

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