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Trade Union Density, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Trade Union Density, 2020 compilation covers 139 countries. Iceland is highest, at 91.423; Venezuela is lowest, at 0.200. The middle country reads 16.468. 5 readings are more than ten years older than the file and are listed but not compared.

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Trade Union Density · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestIceland

91.423

LowestVenezuela

0.200

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Trade Union Density, 2020 compilation, 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 139 countries · select a heading to sort

Trade Union Density, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2019 reading201991.423
2CubaCUBCaribbean · 2008 reading, too old to compare200881.412
3DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2019 reading201966.976
4SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2019 reading201965.213
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2019 reading201958.825
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2019 reading201950.404
7VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2018 reading201849.613
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2019 reading201949.082
9KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2017 reading201746.923
10ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2017 reading201744.249
11CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2016 reading201643.285
12MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2020 reading202041.894
13TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa · 2019 reading201938.106
14AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe · 2017 reading201736.847
15UkraineUKREastern Europe · 2019 reading201936.637
16SyriaSYRWestern Asia · 2007 reading, too old to compare200736.012
17SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2010 reading201033.280
18ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2019 reading201932.497
19TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2017 reading201732.227
20MongoliaMNGEastern Asia · 2019 reading201930.786
21SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2011 reading201130.410
22NepalNPLSouthern Asia · 2018 reading201830.165
23UruguayURYSouth America · 2013 reading201330.096
24Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe · 2012 reading201230.000
25BotswanaBWASouthern Africa · 2020 reading202029.963

02In Trade Union Density, 2020 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline. Readings too old to compare take no part.

Highest

  1. 1Iceland91.423
  2. 3Denmark66.976
  3. 4Sweden65.213
  4. 5Finland58.825
  5. 6Norway50.404

Lowest

  1. 139Venezuela0.200
  2. 138Myanmar1.000
  3. 137Haiti1.723
  4. 135Seychelles2.041
  5. 134Peru2.281

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 16.468. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

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

How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2020, from 2007 to 2020. 5 are more than ten years older than the file: listed and marked, but left out of the ends and the changes.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 139 countries has every column.

04The 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 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (2020). Trade Union Density, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/union-density/2020

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06Questions

Trade Union Density, 2020 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest trade union density in Trade Union Density, 2020 compilation?

Iceland, at 91.423, of the 139 countries in the file.

How many countries does Trade Union Density, 2020 compilation cover?

139.

Where can I download Trade Union Density, 2020 compilation?

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

Is Trade Union Density, 2020 compilation the newest?

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

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