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👷 Highest Employment-to-Population Ratios

Employed people aged 15 and older as a share of the population (ILO modeled estimates).

📅 2025📏 % of population aged 15+181 entries
86.9% – 65.3%65.1% – 60.0%60.0% – 55.5%55.3% – 49.2%48.8% – 21.2%No data
1
🇶🇦Qatar
86.9%
2
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
83.1%
3
🇲🇬Madagascar
82.9%
4
🇹🇿Tanzania
82.4%
5
🇰🇭Cambodia
82.2%
6
🇳🇬Nigeria
80.0%
7
🇳🇪Niger
79.4%
8
🇰🇵North Korea
79.2%
9
🇺🇬Uganda
77.8%
10
🇧🇮Burundi
77.5%
11
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
76.9%
12
🇧🇴Bolivia
76.3%
13
🇧🇯Benin
75.1%
14
🇱🇷Liberia
74.4%
15
🇪🇷Eritrea
73.7%
16
🇲🇿Mozambique
73.5%
17
🇮🇸Iceland
72.2%
18
🇰🇼Kuwait
71.8%
19
🇻🇳Vietnam
71.7%
20
🇲🇩Moldova
71.2%
21
🇧🇭Bahrain
69.7%
22
🇵🇪Peru
69.1%
23
🇨🇫Central African Republic
68.8%
24
🇸🇬Singapore
67.7%
25
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
67.6%
26
🇯🇲Jamaica
67.3%
27
🇧🇸Bahamas
67.0%
28
🇵🇾Paraguay
66.9%
29
🇳🇿New Zealand
66.8%
30
🇲🇴Macau
66.3%
31
🇪🇹Ethiopia
66.2%
32
🇹🇭Thailand
66.2%
33
🇴🇲Oman
66.2%
34
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
65.9%
35
🇮🇩Indonesia
65.8%
36
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
65.5%
37
🇱🇦Laos
65.3%
38
🇲🇱Mali
65.1%
39
🇳🇱Netherlands
64.6%
40
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
64.5%
41
🇦🇴Angola
64.2%
42
🇦🇺Australia
63.8%
43
🇰🇪Kenya
63.7%
44
🇨🇾Cyprus
63.7%
45
🇲🇾Malaysia
63.6%
46
🇨🇭Switzerland
63.5%
47
🇮🇱Israel
63.2%
48
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
63.1%
49
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
63.1%
50
🇨🇲Cameroon
62.8%

Highlights

As of 2025, Qatar ranks first with 86.9%, followed by Solomon Islands (83.1%) and Madagascar (82.9%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 86.9% (Qatar) to 21.2% (São Tomé and Príncipe), with a median of 57.8%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Africa, 3 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment to population ratio, 15+, total (%) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: % of population aged 15+.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment to population ratio, 15+, total (%) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 15, 2026