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Employees are people who work for a public or private employer and receive remuneration in wages, salary, commission, tips, piece rates, or pay in kind. Services correspond to divisions 6-9 (ISIC revision 2) or tabulation categories G-P (ISIC revision 3) and include wholesale and retail trade and restaurants and hotels; transport, storage, and communications; financing, insurance, real estate, and business services; and community, social, and personal services.
Labor Statistics > Employees, services, female > % of female employment (most recent) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
(top to bottom)
Date
#1
Saudi Arabia :
98.1 %
2002 ...
#2
Bermuda :
96.8 %
1996 ...
#3
Suriname :
96.6 %
1999 ...
#4
Qatar :
96.5 %
2004 ...
#5
Aruba :
95.1 %
1997 ...
#6
Bahamas, The :
94.3 %
2005 ...
#7
Man, Isle of :
94 %
2001 ...
#8
Netherlands Antilles :
93.9 %
2000 ...
#9
Hong Kong :
93.2 %
2005 ...
#10
Norway :
90.4 %
2005 ...
#11
United States :
89.6 %
2005 ...
#12
United Kingdom :
89.6 %
2005 ...
#13
Sweden :
89.5 %
2005 ...
#14
Luxembourg :
88.7 %
1990 ...
#15
Puerto Rico :
88.6 %
2005 ...
#16
Brunei :
88.4 %
2001 ...
#17
Djibouti :
88.4 %
1991 ...
#18
Argentina :
88 %
2005 ...
#19
Canada :
87.9 %
2005 ...
#20
Australia :
87.9 %
2005 ...
#21
Israel :
87.5 %
2004 ...
#22
Antigua and Barbuda :
87.4 %
1991 ...
#23
Nigeria :
86.8 %
1995 ...
#24
Peru :
86.4 %
2005 ...
#25
Panama :
86.4 %
2005 ...
#26
Jamaica :
86 %
2005 ...
#27
Venezuela :
86 %
2003 ...
#28
United Arab Emirates :
85.9 %
2000 ...
#29
Ireland :
85.8 %
2005 ...
#30
Uruguay :
85.7 %
2005 ...
#31
New Caledonia :
85.7 %
1996 ...
#32
Netherlands :
85.6 %
2005 ...
#33
Denmark :
85.5 %
2005 ...
#34
Switzerland :
85.3 %
2004 ...
#35
Cyprus :
85.1 %
2004 ...
#36
Iceland :
84.6 %
2002 ...
#37
Finland :
84.4 %
2005 ...
#38
New Zealand :
84.3 %
2005 ...
#39
France :
84.3 %
2004 ...
#40
Spain :
84 %
2005 ...
#41
Trinidad and Tobago :
83.7 %
2002 ...
#42
Ecuador :
83.6 %
2005 ...
#43
Jordan :
83.3 %
2003 ...
#44
Chile :
82.7 %
2005 ...
#45
Dominican Republic :
82.7 %
2002 ...
#46
Belize :
82.5 %
1999 ...
#47
Bolivia :
82.4 %
2000 ...
#48
Costa Rica :
82.2 %
2005 ...
#49
Germany :
82.1 %
2005 ...
#50
Belgium :
81.5 %
2004 ...
#51
Austria :
81.3 %
2005 ...
#52
Malta :
81 %
2004 ...
#53
Oman :
80.2 %
2000 ...
#54
Eritrea :
79.9 %
1984 ...
#55
Italy :
79.2 %
2005 ...
#56
Singapore :
79.1 %
2005 ...
#57
South Africa :
78.9 %
2003 ...
#58
Barbados :
78.2 %
2004 ...
#59
Japan :
76.8 %
2005 ...
#60
Macau :
76.6 %
2005 ...
#61
Grenada :
76.6 %
1998 ...
#62
Greece :
76.1 %
2005 ...
#63
Hungary :
76 %
2005 ...
#64
Cuba :
76 %
2004 ...
#65
San Marino :
75.5 %
2004 ...
#66
Colombia :
75.5 %
2005 ...
#67
Mexico :
75.5 %
2005 ...
#68
El Salvador :
75 %
2004 ...
#69
Latvia :
74.8 %
2005 ...
#70
Kenya :
74.7 %
1999 ...
#71
Korea, South :
74.4 %
2005 ...
#72
Estonia :
72.3 %
2005 ...
#73
Slovakia :
72 %
2005 ...
#74
Dominica :
71.8 %
1997 ...
#75
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
71.7 %
2001 ...
#76
Brazil :
71 %
2004 ...
#77
Czech Republic :
70.7 %
2005 ...
#78
Russia :
70.7 %
2005 ...
#79
Paraguay :
69.8 %
2003 ...
#80
Lithuania :
67.8 %
2005 ...
#81
Poland :
66.2 %
2005 ...
#82
Portugal :
66 %
2003 ...
#83
Slovenia :
65.3 %
2005 ...
#84
Bulgaria :
64.2 %
2005 ...
#85
Philippines :
63.5 %
2005 ...
#86
Honduras :
63.4 %
2005 ...
#87
Namibia :
63.3 %
2000 ...
#88
Croatia :
62.9 %
2005 ...
#89
Mauritius :
62.2 %
2005 ...
#90
Malaysia :
62.1 %
2003 ...
#91
Saint Lucia :
62 %
2003 ...
#92
Ukraine :
62 %
2003 ...
#93
Guyana :
60.5 %
1997 ...
#94
Botswana :
58 %
2004 ...
#95
Kazakhstan :
57.6 %
2004 ...
#96
Haiti :
56.6 %
1999 ...
#97
Guatemala :
55.6 %
2002 ...
#98
Egypt :
54.7 %
2003 ...
#99
Azerbaijan :
54 %
2005 ...
#100
Nicaragua :
52 %
2003 ...
#101
Macedonia, Republic of :
50.7 %
2005 ...
#102
Algeria :
49.4 %
2004 ...
#103
Mongolia :
48.7 %
2004 ...
#104
Moldova :
48.2 %
2005 ...
#105
Romania :
42.2 %
2005 ...
#106
Thailand :
40.5 %
2005 ...
#107
Indonesia :
40.1 %
2005 ...
#108
Maldives :
39 %
2000 ...
#109
Georgia :
38.4 %
2005 ...
#110
Kyrgyzstan :
38.1 %
2001 ...
#111
Iran :
37.4 %
2005 ...
#112
Ghana :
35.6 %
2000 ...
#113
Syria :
35.1 %
2002 ...
#114
Turkey :
33.3 %
2005 ...
#115
Lesotho :
30.9 %
1997 ...
#116
Cambodia :
27.4 %
2004 ...
#117
Vietnam :
26.3 %
2004 ...
#118
Sri Lanka :
24.9 %
2003 ...
#119
Bangladesh :
23 %
2003 ...
#120
Cameroon :
22.5 %
1990 ...
#121
Ethiopia :
22.4 %
1999 ...
#122
Morocco :
22 %
2005 ...
#123
Zambia :
20 %
1998 ...
#124
Pakistan :
19.8 %
2002 ...
#125
Uganda :
16.7 %
2003 ...
#126
Tanzania :
14.8 %
2001 ...
#127
Madagascar :
14.6 %
2002 ...
#128
Yemen :
9.2 %
1999 ...
#129
Laos :
7.9 %
1995 ...
#130
Rwanda :
3.2 %
1989 ...