ILO · Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons
Labour inspectors by country
How many labour inspectors does a country have for every 10,000 people in work?
Of the 81 countries compared in the 2024 edition, San Marino had the highest reading, 3.89, and 2 countries shared the lowest reading, 0.07. In the middle country the figure was 0.57. 5 readings from before 2014 are listed but not compared.
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Labour inspectors · the 2024 edition
Context statistic
Highest of 81San Marino
3.8901the 2024 edition · values only
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 81 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: Matl derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2Photo: Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
3Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Lowest in the 2024 edition
United States0.07
Myanmar0.07
Paraguay0.10
Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
02Every measured country
Labour inspectors on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value — the better end.
- 0.07–0.31
- 0.32–0.52
- 0.53–0.80
- 0.85–1.15
- 1.18–3.89
- Hatched: a reading from before 2014, listed but not compared (5)
- No reading in the 2024 edition
- Europe
0.94
the middle country, of 31 measured · 49 members
San Marino3.89
Ireland0.23Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Africa
0.82
the middle country, of 8 measured · 55 members
Mauritius2.47
Senegal0.17Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Asia
0.51
the middle country, of 22 measured · 52 members
Macau2.65Myanmar0.07Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Americas
0.39
the middle country, of 18 measured · 48 members
Barbados1.40United States0.07Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Oceania
2 of 21 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
Australia0.99
New Zealand0.34Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
17 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Southern Europe
1.07
the middle country, of 7 measured · 17 members
San Marino3.89
Malta0.59Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- Western Europe
1.05
the middle country, of 6 measured · 9 members
Luxembourg3.15
Belgium0.56Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- Northern Europe
0.95
the middle country, of 9 measured · 13 members
Lithuania1.46Ireland0.23Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Eastern Europe
0.87
the middle country, of 9 measured · 10 members
Romania1.92
Belarus0.41Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Eastern Asia
0.75
the middle country, of 5 measured · 8 members
Macau2.65
Japan0.46Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Western Asia
0.52
the middle country, of 9 measured · 19 members
Qatar1.28
Bahrain0.26Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Central America
0.51
the middle country, of 6 measured · 8 members
Belize1.38
Mexico0.14Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- South America
0.38
the middle country, of 7 measured · 12 members
Chile0.91Paraguay0.10Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- South-eastern Asia
0.32
the middle country, of 5 measured · 11 members
Malaysia0.54Myanmar0.07Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
Australia0.99New Zealand0.34Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Caribbean
3 of 24 measured — too few for a middle: Barbados, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago.
Barbados1.40
Trinidad and Tobago0.19Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Central Asia
1 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan0.22Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Eastern Africa
3 of 19 measured — too few for a middle: Mauritius, Seychelles, Zimbabwe.
Mauritius2.47
Zimbabwe0.56Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Northern America
2 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, United States.
Canada0.11United States0.07Highest and lowest reading in Northern America.
- Southern Africa
2 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Namibia, South Africa.
2 share 1.08
2 share 1.08
Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
- Southern Asia
2 of 9 measured — too few for a middle: Bhutan, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka0.57
Bhutan0.52Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Western Africa
3 of 16 measured — too few for a middle: Burkina Faso, Senegal, Togo.
Togo0.39Senegal0.17Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
03The whole field at once
The spread
81 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 0.57; a quarter are above 1.08, and a quarter below 0.39. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 86 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. No rank or position is shown: too many countries share the same value for an order to mean anything. Countries count inspectors differently, and the bottom of the table is where it shows: the United States reports the inspectors of a single federal agency and Canada a count that leaves some areas out, each set against every worker in the country. The file names each row’s source and what it covers. No position is shown, because the order would reflect those definitions as much as any country’s capacity.
Showing 25 of 86 countries
Values for the 2024 edition.
05In this edition
Labour inspectors in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading
3.89
Labour inspectors per 10,000 employed persons
Lowest reading
Reached 2 times by 2 countries — shared, so no holder is named
0.07
Labour inspectors per 10,000 employed persons
06The measure
About labour inspectors
This counts the labour inspectors a country employs for every 10,000 people in work — the officials who enforce labour law on safety, wages and working hours. It is the International Labour Organization’s basic measure of a state’s capacity to inspect workplaces.
What the number is: Labour inspectors per 10,000 employed persons.
07Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Governance & Institutions and Work & Labour, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Governance & InstitutionsWork & LabourWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where labour inspectors is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Political Stability and Absence of ViolenceKeyWorld Bank Group · 81 countries in commonρ 0.49
- Civic Space RatingsKeyCIVICUS · 80 countries in commonρ 0.46
- Disability Benefit CoverageILO · 81 countries in commonρ 0.45
Moves against
Where labour inspectors is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Population Under Age 15UN DESA Population Division · 81 countries in commonρ −0.45
- Total PopulationUN DESA Population Division · 81 countries in commonρ −0.43
- Burned AreaGWIS · 81 countries in commonρ −0.42
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 73 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
08Keep reading
Explore further
The subject
The data, edition by edition
The countries at either end
09Questions
Labour inspectors: questions and answers
Which country has the highest labour inspectors?
San Marino, at 3.89, among the 81 countries compared in the 2024 edition.
Which country has the lowest labour inspectors?
2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.07, among the 81 compared in the 2024 edition, so no single country is named.
How many countries does the Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons cover?
81 in the 2024 edition, and 86 at least once across all editions.
What is the world average labour inspectors?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 81 compared in the 2024 edition, the figure was 0.57.
Is this International Labour Organization (ILO)’s own ranking?
No ranking is shown. International Labour Organization (ILO) publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything, so none is derived.
How often is the Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons published?
This site holds one edition, describing 2024.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From International Labour Organization (ILO), under CC BY 4.0. Administrative returns from national labour ministries, read from ILOSTAT directly. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
10Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons — International Labour Organization (ILO)
Administrative returns from national labour ministries, read from ILOSTAT directly.
Newest edition
Report year 2024Data year not recorded
Cite the source as: International Labour Organization. ILOSTAT. Geneva: ILO.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-10-03.
How this page reads the numbers
- No rank or position is shown: International Labour Organization (ILO) publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- The file gives each country’s most recent reading, so the rows are from different years. Readings from before 2014 are listed but left out of every comparison on this page.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- San Marino — Matl derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Luxembourg — Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Macau — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Labour inspectors by country: Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons, data from International Labour Organization (ILO). https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/labour-inspectors