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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2024

2024, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2024 covers 76 countries on 3 measures. Malawi is highest, at 49.816; Thailand is lowest, at 1.495. The middle country reads 12.559. Against 2023, 68 values changed (31 up, 37 down), 8 countries joined, 11 left.

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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4) · Data for 2024

HighestMalawi

49.816

LowestThailand

1.495

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), 2024, 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 76 countries · select a heading to sort

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2024: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1MalawiMWIEastern Africa49.81655.52343.488Break in series
2South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa44.56348.35041.125—
3RwandaRWAEastern Africa40.04246.89232.956—
4SenegalSENWestern Africa34.34850.70520.342—
5PalestinePSEWestern Asia33.98832.99034.223Break in series
6LesothoLSOSouthern Africa32.51438.59826.921—
7AngolaAGOMiddle Africa30.53731.53329.463—
8ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa25.95729.11722.794—
9GuatemalaGTMCentral America23.54335.11612.673Break in series
10BahamasBHSCaribbean22.78122.81722.744—
11GuyanaGUYSouth America22.16029.78216.536—
12ChileCHLSouth America21.87525.72518.789—
13GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia20.32420.58020.082—
14JordanJORWestern Asia20.16030.48117.391—
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe20.05819.84020.261—
16SpainESPSouthern Europe19.88724.30515.855—
17UruguayURYSouth America18.81122.43515.726—
18GhanaGHAWestern Africa18.75220.73716.222—
19ZambiaZMBEastern Africa18.74921.29316.478—
20FranceFRAWestern Europe17.98119.16016.851—
21HondurasHNDCentral America17.93526.92111.084—
22North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe17.84016.13519.071—
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe17.47718.46516.576—
24PanamaPANCentral America16.83219.04515.168—
25MontenegroMNESouthern Europe16.18717.41015.175—

02In 2024

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Malawi49.816
  2. 2South Africa44.563
  3. 3Rwanda40.042
  4. 4Senegal34.348
  5. 5Palestine33.988

Lowest

  1. 76Thailand1.495
  2. 75Vietnam3.235
  3. 74Moldova3.495
  4. 73Czechia3.804
  5. 72Belarus4.737

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 12.559. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032023 → 2024

Since 2023

What changed between 2023 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +8 / −11countries joined / left
  • 68values changed, of 68 in both
  • 31 · 37rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Argentina+ Bahamas+ Bhutan+ Fiji+ Guyana+ Lesotho+ Malawi+ Palestine− Antigua and Barbuda− Burkina Faso− Gambia− Grenada− Indonesia− Iceland− Kyrgyzstan− Kiribati− Slovakia− Eswatini− 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 2024.

  • 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.

  • 72 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) (2024). Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/labour-underutilisation/2024

0611 held

Other years

07Questions

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2024: questions and answers

Which country has the highest labour underutilisation in Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2024?

Malawi, at 49.816, of the 76 countries in the file.

What year does Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2024 describe?

2024.

How many countries does Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2024 cover?

76.

Where can I download Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2024?

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), 2024 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-29, when it was read from the publisher.

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