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👩‍🏭 Highest Female Labor Participation

Labor-force participation among women aged 15 and older; ILO modeled estimate.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
82.9% – 62.0%61.9% – 56.4%56.3% – 51.5%51.3% – 40.9%40.8% – 4.7%No data
1
🇲🇬Madagascar
82.9%
2
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
82.3%
3
🇳🇬Nigeria
80.7%
4
🇹🇿Tanzania
80.3%
5
🇧🇮Burundi
79.5%
6
🇰🇵North Korea
77.7%
7
🇰🇭Cambodia
77.4%
8
🇲🇿Mozambique
77.1%
9
🇺🇬Uganda
75.6%
10
🇧🇯Benin
75.2%
11
🇧🇴Bolivia
72.9%
12
🇪🇷Eritrea
72.8%
13
🇳🇪Niger
72.8%
14
🇲🇩Moldova
72.3%
15
🇦🇴Angola
72.2%
16
🇱🇷Liberia
72.0%
17
🇧🇸Bahamas
70.7%
18
🇮🇸Iceland
70.0%
19
🇻🇳Vietnam
68.6%
20
🇳🇿New Zealand
66.1%
21
🇨🇬Congo
65.6%
22
🇨🇫Central African Republic
65.5%
23
🇵🇪Peru
65.0%
24
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
64.1%
25
🇧🇼Botswana
63.7%
26
🇸🇬Singapore
63.6%
27
🇲🇴Macau
63.1%
28
🇰🇪Kenya
63.0%
29
🇯🇲Jamaica
63.0%
30
🇳🇱Netherlands
62.7%
31
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
62.6%
32
🇦🇺Australia
62.5%
33
🇮🇱Israel
62.3%
34
🇨🇭Switzerland
62.2%
35
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
62.2%
36
🇳🇴Norway
62.1%
37
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
62.0%
38
🇶🇦Qatar
61.9%
39
🇨🇩DR Congo
61.8%
40
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
61.7%
41
🇱🇦Laos
61.6%
42
🇸🇪Sweden
61.5%
43
🇨🇾Cyprus
61.2%
44
🇧🇧Barbados
61.0%
45
🇪🇪Estonia
61.0%
46
🇩🇰Denmark
60.8%
47
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
60.8%
48
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
60.3%
49
🇨🇦Canada
60.2%
50
🇮🇪Ireland
59.8%

Highlights

As of 2025, Madagascar ranks first with 82.9%, followed by Solomon Islands (82.3%) and Nigeria (80.7%).

The top two are virtually level: Madagascar and Solomon Islands differ by less than 1%.

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 82.9% (Madagascar) to 4.7% (Yemen), with a median of 53.4%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Africa, 2 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026