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👷 Employment in industry, female

Employment is defined as persons of working age who were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
35.7% – 16.5%16.3% – 11.6%11.6% – 8.8%8.7% – 6.7%6.6% – 0.5%No data
1
🇱🇸Lesotho
35.7%
2
🇹🇳Tunisia
31.8%
3
🇻🇳Vietnam
30.9%
4
🇹🇴Tonga
26.9%
5
🇰🇭Cambodia
25.8%
6
🇮🇷Iran
25.3%
7
🇨🇳China
24.8%
8
🇩🇿Algeria
24.6%
9
🇲🇰North Macedonia
24.4%
10
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
24.1%
11
🇸🇿Eswatini
23.1%
12
🇷🇴Romania
22.1%
13
🇦🇫Afghanistan
21.6%
14
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
21.2%
15
🇲🇻Maldives
21.1%
16
🇨🇿Czechia
20.9%
17
🇹🇬Togo
20.9%
18
🇰🇵North Korea
20.4%
19
🇹🇲Turkmenistan
19.8%
20
🇸🇰Slovakia
19.8%
21
🇧🇬Bulgaria
19.6%
22
🇧🇾Belarus
19.6%
23
🇧🇯Benin
19.2%
24
🇷🇸Serbia
19.0%
25
🇹🇭Thailand
18.9%
26
🇬🇹Guatemala
18.7%
27
🇸🇮Slovenia
18.7%
28
🇭🇺Hungary
18.5%
29
🇲🇲Myanmar
17.8%
30
🇲🇾Malaysia
17.7%
31
🇳🇵Nepal
17.6%
32
🇹🇷Türkiye
17.5%
33
🇨🇬Congo
17.3%
34
🇲🇽Mexico
17.0%
35
🇸🇳Senegal
16.8%
36
🇵🇱Poland
16.7%
37
🇳🇬Nigeria
16.5%
38
🇦🇱Albania
16.3%
39
🇭🇳Honduras
16.2%
40
🇮🇳India
16.1%
41
🇮🇩Indonesia
16.1%
42
🇸🇻El Salvador
15.7%
43
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
15.7%
44
🇲🇦Morocco
15.6%
45
🇬🇭Ghana
15.5%
46
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
15.4%
47
🇵🇹Portugal
15.2%
48
🇬🇾Guyana
15.0%
49
🇸🇴Somalia
14.8%
50
🇴🇲Oman
14.8%

Highlights

As of 2025, Lesotho ranks first with 35.7%, followed by Tunisia (31.8%) and Vietnam (30.9%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 35.7% (Lesotho) to 0.5% (Burundi), with a median of 10.3%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Asia, 3 from Africa, 1 from Europe and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment in industry, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment in industry, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026