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⚖️ Smallest Gender Gap in Labor-Force Participation

Female labor-force participation divided by male participation; values nearer 100 indicate a smaller gap.

📅 2025📏 % of male rate181 entries
103.3% – 87.8%87.7% – 83.4%83.3% – 74.8%74.6% – 61.5%61.4% – 7.3%No data
1
🇧🇮Burundi
103.3%
2
🇲🇩Moldova
100.1%
3
🇧🇯Benin
96.9%
4
🇹🇬Togo
95.9%
5
🇲🇿Mozambique
95.7%
6
🇳🇬Nigeria
95.7%
7
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
95.5%
8
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
95.4%
9
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
95.0%
10
🇲🇬Madagascar
94.1%
11
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
93.9%
12
🇨🇬Congo
93.5%
13
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
93.5%
14
🇦🇴Angola
93.2%
15
🇨🇩DR Congo
92.5%
16
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
92.0%
17
🇹🇿Tanzania
92.0%
18
🇬🇲Gambia
91.8%
19
🇧🇸Bahamas
91.6%
20
🇸🇪Sweden
91.0%
21
🇮🇱Israel
90.5%
22
🇳🇴Norway
89.9%
23
🇸🇿Eswatini
89.8%
24
🇫🇮Finland
89.7%
25
🇰🇵North Korea
89.6%
26
🇬🇭Ghana
89.4%
27
🇺🇬Uganda
89.3%
28
🇧🇧Barbados
88.8%
29
🇱🇷Liberia
88.7%
30
🇻🇳Vietnam
88.7%
31
🇦🇺Australia
88.4%
32
🇳🇿New Zealand
88.4%
33
🇰🇭Cambodia
88.1%
34
🇮🇸Iceland
87.9%
35
🇵🇹Portugal
87.9%
36
🇩🇰Denmark
87.9%
37
🇱🇺Luxembourg
87.8%
38
🇰🇪Kenya
87.7%
39
🇬🇧United Kingdom
87.4%
40
🇪🇪Estonia
87.3%
41
🇨🇦Canada
87.3%
42
🇳🇱Netherlands
87.2%
43
🇨🇭Switzerland
87.2%
44
🇱🇦Laos
87.2%
45
🇳🇦Namibia
87.1%
46
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
86.6%
47
🇪🇷Eritrea
86.6%
48
🇫🇷France
86.4%
49
🇲🇼Malawi
86.4%
50
🇧🇴Bolivia
86.3%

Highlights

As of 2025, Burundi ranks first with 103.3%, followed by Moldova (100.1%) and Benin (96.9%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 103.3% (Burundi) to 7.3% (Afghanistan), with a median of 79.2%.

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

Source: World Bank Open Data — Ratio of female to male labor force participation rate (%) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: % of male rate.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Ratio of female to male labor force participation rate (%) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 15, 2026