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Labor Statistics > force participation rate, total > % of total population ages 15-64 (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  Date  
# 1   Burundi: 93.02 %   2005 Time series
# 2   Tanzania: 89.45 %   2005 Time series
# 3   Malawi: 88.02 %   2005 Time series
# 4   Iceland: 86.73 %   2005 Time series
# 5   Guinea: 85.71 %   2005 Time series
# 6   Burkina Faso: 84.85 %   2005 Time series
# 7   Vanuatu: 84.77 %   2005 Time series
# 8   Niger: 84.51 %   2005 Time series
# 9   Uganda: 84.27 %   2005 Time series
# 10   Mozambique: 83.83 %   2005 Time series
# 11   Angola: 83.76 %   2005 Time series
# 12   Rwanda: 83.39 %   2005 Time series
# 13   Madagascar: 83.07 %   2005 Time series
# 14   Ethiopia: 81.99 %   2005 Time series
# 15   China: 81.97 %   2005 Time series
# 16   Switzerland: 81.38 %   2005 Time series
# 17   Barbados: 80.7 %   2005 Time series
# 18   Norway: 80.52 %   2005 Time series
# 19   Kenya: 80.49 %   2005 Time series
# 20   Zambia: 79.94 %   2005 Time series
# 21   Vietnam: 79.88 %   2005 Time series
# 22   Mali: 79.83 %   2005 Time series
# 23   Central African Republic: 79.8 %   2005 Time series
# 24   Cambodia: 79.65 %   2005 Time series
# 25   Burma: 78.76 %   2005 Time series
# 26   Denmark: 78.48 %   2005 Time series
# 27   Paraguay: 77.84 %   2005 Time series
= 28   United Arab Emirates: 77.8 %   2005 Time series
= 28   Somalia: 77.8 %   2005 Time series
# 30   Guinea-Bissau: 77.77 %   2005 Time series
# 31   Canada: 77.7 %   2005 Time series
# 32   Thailand: 77.65 %   2005 Time series
# 33   Netherlands: 77.16 %   2005 Time series
# 34   New Zealand: 77.14 %   2005 Time series
# 35   Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 76.97 %   2005 Time series
# 36   Sweden: 76.95 %   2005 Time series
# 37   Kazakhstan: 76.72 %   2005 Time series
# 38   Sierra Leone: 76.13 %   2005 Time series
# 39   Uruguay: 76.1 %   2005 Time series
# 40   United States: 75.75 %   2005 Time series
# 41   United Kingdom: 75.56 %   2005 Time series
# 42   Colombia: 75.38 %   2005 Time series
# 43   Qatar: 74.84 %   2005 Time series
# 44   Finland: 74.83 %   2005 Time series
# 45   Eritrea: 74.77 %   2005 Time series
# 46   Zimbabwe: 74.75 %   2005 Time series
# 47   Ecuador: 74.74 %   2005 Time series
# 48   Bosnia and Herzegovina: 74.36 %   2005 Time series
# 49   Bolivia: 74.27 %   2005 Time series
# 50   Australia: 74.06 %   2005 Time series
# 51   Papua New Guinea: 74.03 %   2005 Time series
# 52   Gabon: 73.99 %   2005 Time series
# 53   Venezuela: 73.82 %   2005 Time series
# 54   Ghana: 73.75 %   2005 Time series
# 55   Portugal: 73.66 %   2005 Time series
# 56   Honduras: 73.58 %   2005 Time series
# 57   Germany: 73.41 %   2005 Time series
# 58   Comoros: 73.4 %   2005 Time series
# 59   Gambia, The: 73.27 %   2005 Time series
# 60   Kuwait: 73.1 %   2005 Time series
# 61   Macau: 73.09 %   2005 Time series
# 62   Japan: 72.72 %   2005 Time series
# 63   Equatorial Guinea: 72.59 %   2005 Time series
# 64   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 72.55 %   2005 Time series
# 65   Peru: 72.44 %   2005 Time series
# 66   Brazil: 72.12 %   2005 Time series
# 67   Bangladesh: 72.04 %   2005 Time series
# 68   Azerbaijan: 71.94 %   2005 Time series
# 69   Bahamas, The: 71.8 %   2005 Time series
# 70   Saint Lucia: 71.73 %   2005 Time series
# 71   Argentina: 71.65 %   2005 Time series
# 72   Chad: 71.44 %   2005 Time series
# 73   Ireland: 71.34 %   2005 Time series
# 74   Congo, Republic of the: 71.19 %   2005 Time series
# 75   Cyprus: 71.13 %   2005 Time series
# 76   Slovenia: 71.12 %   2005 Time series
# 77   Russia: 71.03 %   2005 Time series
# 78   Hong Kong: 70.94 %   2005 Time series
# 79   Benin: 70.8 %   2005 Time series
= 80   Turkmenistan: 70.75 %   2005 Time series
= 80   Togo: 70.75 %   2005 Time series
# 82   Czech Republic: 70.71 %   2005 Time series
# 83   Philippines: 70.69 %   2005 Time series
# 84   Austria: 70.64 %   2005 Time series
= 85   Moldova: 70.54 %   2005 Time series
= 85   Senegal: 70.54 %   2005 Time series
# 87   Mauritania: 70.5 %   2005 Time series
# 88   East Timor: 70.48 %   2005 Time series
# 89   Haiti: 70.22 %   2005 Time series
# 90   Indonesia: 70.07 %   2005 Time series
# 91   Singapore: 69.88 %   2005 Time series
# 92   Solomon Islands: 69.78 %   2005 Time series
# 93   Mongolia: 69.73 %   2005 Time series
# 94   Liberia: 69.7 %   2005 Time series
# 95   Fiji: 69.49 %   2005 Time series
# 96   Slovakia: 69.36 %   2005 Time series
# 97   Laos: 69.3 %   2005 Time series
# 98   Djibouti: 69.29 %   2005 Time series
# 99   Belarus: 69.28 %   2005 Time series
# 100   Panama: 69.05 %   2005 Time series
# 101   Spain: 69.04 %   2005 Time series
# 102   Lithuania: 69 %   2005 Time series
# 103   Estonia: 68.82 %   2005 Time series
# 104   Virgin Islands: 68.65 %   2005 Time series
# 105   Kyrgyzstan: 68.6 %   2005 Time series
# 106   Jamaica: 68.47 %   2005 Time series
= 107   Guam: 68.11 %   2005 Time series
= 107   Uzbekistan: 68.11 %   2005 Time series
# 109   France: 67.96 %   2005 Time series
# 110   Greece: 67.5 %   2005 Time series
# 111   Ukraine: 67.43 %   2005 Time series
# 112   Cameroon: 67.42 %   2005 Time series
# 113   Latvia: 67.26 %   2005 Time series
# 114   Costa Rica: 67.04 %   2005 Time series
# 115   Trinidad and Tobago: 66.76 %   2005 Time series
# 116   Cuba: 66.61 %   2005 Time series
# 117   Dominican Republic: 66.36 %   2005 Time series
# 118   Nigeria: 66.33 %   2005 Time series
# 119   Malaysia: 66.2 %   2005 Time series
# 120   Nepal: 66.19 %   2005 Time series
# 121   Korea, South: 65.92 %   2005 Time series
# 122   Netherlands Antilles: 65.72 %   2005 Time series
# 123   Bahrain: 65.59 %   2005 Time series
# 124   Luxembourg: 65.52 %   2005 Time series
# 125   Mauritius: 65.51 %   2005 Time series
# 126   Serbia and Montenegro: 65.49 %   2005 Time series
# 127   Guyana: 65.38 %   2005 Time series
# 128   Belize: 65.33 %   2005 Time series
# 129   Côte d'Ivoire: 65.3 %   2005 Time series
# 130   Korea, North: 65.29 %   2005 Time series
# 131   South Africa: 65.28 %   2005 Time series
# 132   Bhutan: 65.27 %   2005 Time series
# 133   Albania: 65.06 %   2005 Time series
# 134   Belgium: 65 %   2005 Time series
# 135   Syria: 64.64 %   2005 Time series
# 136   Brunei: 64.55 %   2005 Time series
# 137   Afghanistan: 64.35 %   1989 Time series
# 138   Croatia: 64.24 %   2005 Time series
# 139   El Salvador: 64.14 %   2005 Time series
# 140   French Polynesia: 63.99 %   2005 Time series
# 141   Georgia: 63.66 %   2005 Time series
# 142   Poland: 63.21 %   2005 Time series
# 143   Samoa: 63.08 %   2005 Time series
# 144   Tonga: 62.59 %   2005 Time series
# 145   Romania: 62.4 %   2005 Time series
# 146   New Caledonia: 62.38 %   2005 Time series
# 147   Italy: 62.24 %   2005 Time series
# 148   Israel: 62.13 %   2005 Time series
# 149   Mexico: 62.1 %   2005 Time series
# 150   Nicaragua: 61.98 %   2005 Time series
# 151   Maldives: 61.32 %   2005 Time series
# 152   Algeria: 60.98 %   2005 Time series
# 153   India: 60.93 %   2005 Time series
# 154   Sri Lanka: 60.81 %   2005 Time series
# 155   Macedonia, Republic of: 60.63 %   2005 Time series
# 156   Malta: 60.61 %   2005 Time series
# 157   Pakistan: 60.56 %   2005 Time series
# 158   Armenia: 60.21 %   2005 Time series
# 159   Hungary: 60.05 %   2005 Time series
# 160   Lesotho: 59.83 %   2005 Time series
# 161   Libya: 59.15 %   2005 Time series
# 162   Lebanon: 59.05 %   2005 Time series
# 163   Guatemala: 58.63 %   2005 Time series
# 164   Oman: 58.52 %   2005 Time series
# 165   Chile: 58.39 %   2005 Time series
# 166   Iran: 58.18 %   2005 Time series
# 167   Tajikistan: 57.47 %   2005 Time series
# 168   Bulgaria: 57.43 %   2005 Time series
# 169   Botswana: 57.23 %   2005 Time series
# 170   Namibia: 56.31 %   2005 Time series
# 171   Cape Verde: 56.26 %   2005 Time series
# 172   Morocco: 56.06 %   2005 Time series
# 173   Puerto Rico: 55.59 %   2005 Time series
# 174   Jordan: 55.58 %   2005 Time series
# 175   Tunisia: 54.9 %   2005 Time series
# 176   Yemen: 54.38 %   2005 Time series
# 177   São Tomé and Príncipe: 54.25 %   2005 Time series
# 178   Suriname: 53.13 %   2005 Time series
# 179   Saudi Arabia: 53.08 %   2005 Time series
# 180   Swaziland: 52.49 %   2005 Time series
# 181   Turkey: 51.9 %   2005 Time series
# 182   Iraq: 49.67 %   1999 Time series
# 183   Egypt: 49.34 %   2005 Time series
# 184   Sudan: 48.4 %   2005 Time series
Weighted average: 69.4 %   



DEFINITION: Labor force participation rate is the proportion of the population ages 15-64 that is economically active: all people who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period.

SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

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