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👷 Labor force participation rate, female

Labor force participation rate is the proportion of the population ages 15-64 that is economically active: all people who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
87.3% – 74.0%73.9% – 66.2%66.1% – 57.0%56.7% – 45.3%45.0% – 4.8%No data
1
🇰🇵North Korea
87.3%
2
🇲🇬Madagascar
84.6%
3
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
84.3%
4
🇮🇸Iceland
84.0%
5
🇸🇪Sweden
82.3%
6
🇳🇱Netherlands
82.2%
7
🇰🇭Cambodia
82.1%
8
🇹🇿Tanzania
82.0%
9
🇳🇬Nigeria
81.9%
10
🇧🇸Bahamas
81.4%
11
🇪🇪Estonia
80.8%
12
🇧🇮Burundi
80.8%
13
🇨🇭Switzerland
80.7%
14
🇩🇰Denmark
79.8%
15
🇳🇿New Zealand
79.2%
16
🇫🇮Finland
78.7%
17
🇳🇴Norway
78.0%
18
🇲🇿Mozambique
77.7%
19
🇦🇺Australia
77.4%
20
🇱🇹Lithuania
77.4%
21
🇯🇵Japan
77.0%
22
🇺🇬Uganda
76.9%
23
🇨🇦Canada
76.7%
24
🇧🇯Benin
76.6%
25
🇧🇾Belarus
76.6%
26
🇧🇧Barbados
76.4%
27
🇪🇷Eritrea
76.2%
28
🇩🇪Germany
76.0%
29
🇵🇹Portugal
76.0%
30
🇲🇩Moldova
75.7%
31
🇻🇳Vietnam
75.1%
32
🇧🇴Bolivia
74.9%
33
🇲🇹Malta
74.6%
34
🇱🇻Latvia
74.5%
35
🇭🇺Hungary
74.3%
36
🇨🇾Cyprus
74.3%
37
🇳🇪Niger
74.0%
38
🇲🇴Macau
73.9%
39
🇦🇹Austria
73.8%
40
🇬🇧United Kingdom
73.5%
41
🇱🇷Liberia
73.5%
42
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
73.3%
43
🇦🇴Angola
73.3%
44
🇮🇪Ireland
73.0%
45
🇮🇱Israel
72.7%
46
🇸🇰Slovakia
72.6%
47
🇸🇮Slovenia
72.5%
48
🇸🇬Singapore
72.1%
49
🇦🇱Albania
72.0%
50
🇺🇾Uruguay
72.0%

Highlights

As of 2025, North Korea ranks first with 87.3%, followed by Madagascar (84.6%) and Solomon Islands (84.3%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 87.3% (North Korea) to 4.8% (Yemen), with a median of 61.5%.

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

Source: World Bank Open Data — Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026