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👷 Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, female

Employment to population ratio is the proportion of a country's population that is employed.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
76.6% – 44.1%43.6% – 31.7%31.5% – 25.4%25.4% – 16.9%16.8% – 1.9%No data
1
🇮🇸Iceland
76.6%
2
🇳🇱Netherlands
76.2%
3
🇰🇵North Korea
74.8%
4
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
69.5%
5
🇰🇭Cambodia
67.8%
6
🇲🇬Madagascar
67.3%
7
🇹🇿Tanzania
67.1%
8
🇳🇪Niger
64.4%
9
🇦🇺Australia
64.3%
10
🇺🇬Uganda
62.6%
11
🇩🇰Denmark
61.7%
12
🇳🇬Nigeria
60.8%
13
🇨🇭Switzerland
58.7%
14
🇳🇴Norway
58.3%
15
🇪🇷Eritrea
57.9%
16
🇧🇮Burundi
56.9%
17
🇲🇿Mozambique
56.7%
18
🇳🇿New Zealand
56.6%
19
🇨🇦Canada
55.6%
20
🇧🇴Bolivia
54.0%
21
🇱🇦Laos
52.1%
22
🇱🇷Liberia
52.0%
23
🇧🇯Benin
51.9%
24
🇯🇵Japan
50.5%
25
🇨🇫Central African Republic
50.1%
26
🇩🇪Germany
49.3%
27
🇲🇹Malta
49.2%
28
🇮🇪Ireland
48.3%
29
🇦🇹Austria
47.8%
30
🇪🇹Ethiopia
46.6%
31
🇵🇪Peru
46.6%
32
🇺🇸United States
46.1%
33
🇬🇧United Kingdom
46.0%
34
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
45.7%
35
🇮🇱Israel
45.3%
36
🇧🇸Bahamas
44.8%
37
🇧🇩Bangladesh
44.1%
38
🇸🇪Sweden
43.6%
39
🇫🇮Finland
43.1%
40
🇲🇱Mali
42.7%
41
🇨🇩DR Congo
42.4%
42
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
41.5%
43
🇲🇴Macau
41.0%
44
🇨🇳China
40.9%
45
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
40.6%
46
🇲🇼Malawi
40.5%
47
🇧🇷Brazil
40.4%
48
🇶🇦Qatar
40.2%
49
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
39.9%
50
🇵🇾Paraguay
39.8%

Highlights

As of 2025, Iceland ranks first with 76.6%, followed by Netherlands (76.2%) and North Korea (74.8%).

The top two are virtually level: Iceland and Netherlands differ by less than 1%.

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 76.6% (Iceland) to 1.9% (Iraq), with a median of 28.4%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Africa, 2 from Asia, 2 from Europe and 2 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, female (%) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, female (%) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026