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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2019

2019, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2019 covers 86 countries on 3 measures. South Africa is highest, at 41.43; Thailand is lowest, at 1.67. The middle country reads 14.04. Against 2018, 68 values changed (18 up, 50 down), 18 countries joined, 5 left.

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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4) · Data for 2019

HighestSouth Africa

41.43

LowestThailand

1.67

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), 2019, 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 86 countries · select a heading to sort

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2019: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa41.4345.64737.738—
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa40.7747.19034.069—
3SomaliaSOMEastern Africa34.7642.75230.294—
4AngolaAGOMiddle Africa33.2834.38832.096Break in series
5PalestinePSEWestern Asia32.9855.10226.112—
6LesothoLSOSouthern Africa31.2037.34025.773—
7GuyanaGUYSouth America30.2035.42126.118—
8ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa29.7830.82328.663Break in series
9NigeriaNGAWestern Africa28.2129.42027.217Break in series
10MontenegroMNESouthern Europe25.5927.70323.822—
11Costa RicaCRICentral America25.2832.58119.964—
12Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe25.2631.00821.154—
13GreeceGRCSouthern Europe24.7330.97419.561—
14ChileCHLSouth America24.6929.02921.274—
15SenegalSENWestern Africa24.4538.66412.110—
16North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe24.3326.14723.042—
17HondurasHNDCentral America24.0933.84817.338—
18BrazilBRASouth America23.9929.09819.773—
19SpainESPSouthern Europe22.9628.45418.012—
20New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia22.5325.14520.265—
21AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe22.3222.90821.832—
22GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia21.8820.90622.725—
23JordanJORWestern Asia21.8332.65719.681—
24ItalyITASouthern Europe21.6125.97718.133—
25Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia21.1224.91719.202—

02In 2019

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Africa41.43
  2. 2Rwanda40.77
  3. 3Somalia34.76
  4. 4Angola33.28
  5. 5Palestine32.98

Lowest

  1. 86Thailand1.67
  2. 85Cambodia1.83
  3. 84Myanmar2.20
  4. 83Cook Islands2.76
  5. 82Czechia3.07

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.04. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +18 / −5countries joined / left
  • 68values changed, of 68 in both
  • 18 · 50rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cook Islands+ Georgia+ Kenya+ Cambodia+ Lebanon+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mongolia+ Nigeria+ Senegal+ Somalia+ Seychelles+ Tunisia+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− Antigua and Barbuda− Burkina Faso− Grenada− Sierra Leone− Tonga

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 2019.

  • 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.

  • 78 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) (2019). Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/labour-underutilisation/2019

0611 held

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07Questions

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest labour underutilisation in Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2019?

South Africa, at 41.43, of the 86 countries in the file.

What year does Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2019 cover?

86.

Where can I download Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2019?

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), 2019 the newest?

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

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