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

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

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
76.3% – 53.2%53.1% – 42.3%42.0% – 35.1%34.7% – 27.3%27.3% – 3.6%No data
1
🇳🇪Niger
76.3%
2
🇳🇱Netherlands
75.7%
3
🇮🇸Iceland
73.5%
4
🇰🇭Cambodia
72.2%
5
🇺🇬Uganda
71.1%
6
🇹🇿Tanzania
71.0%
7
🇶🇦Qatar
70.8%
8
🇲🇬Madagascar
69.9%
9
🇰🇵North Korea
69.9%
10
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
68.3%
11
🇬🇹Guatemala
66.9%
12
🇳🇮Nicaragua
66.0%
13
🇪🇷Eritrea
65.1%
14
🇦🇺Australia
62.6%
15
🇧🇴Bolivia
62.2%
16
🇳🇬Nigeria
61.8%
17
🇭🇳Honduras
61.5%
18
🇨🇭Switzerland
60.7%
19
🇩🇰Denmark
60.3%
20
🇵🇾Paraguay
59.3%
21
🇨🇫Central African Republic
59.1%
22
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
58.7%
23
🇲🇱Mali
58.5%
24
🇲🇿Mozambique
58.2%
25
🇵🇰Pakistan
57.7%
26
🇦🇫Afghanistan
57.4%
27
🇧🇿Belize
56.6%
28
🇳🇴Norway
56.2%
29
🇳🇿New Zealand
56.1%
30
🇱🇷Liberia
56.0%
31
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
55.2%
32
🇪🇹Ethiopia
55.2%
33
🇦🇹Austria
53.8%
34
🇱🇦Laos
53.6%
35
🇧🇷Brazil
53.4%
36
🇵🇪Peru
53.4%
37
🇨🇦Canada
53.2%
38
🇲🇹Malta
53.1%
39
🇲🇽Mexico
52.9%
40
🇩🇪Germany
52.4%
41
🇴🇲Oman
52.3%
42
🇧🇭Bahrain
51.8%
43
🇹🇷Türkiye
51.8%
44
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
51.3%
45
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
50.9%
46
🇧🇸Bahamas
50.7%
47
🇪🇨Ecuador
50.4%
48
🇧🇯Benin
50.1%
49
🇸🇻El Salvador
49.9%
50
🇯🇵Japan
47.9%

Highlights

As of 2025, Niger ranks first with 76.3%, followed by Netherlands (75.7%) and Iceland (73.5%).

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

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 76.3% (Niger) to 3.6% (Djibouti), with a median of 37.8%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Africa, 3 from Asia, 2 from Europe and 1 from Oceania.

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

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