Labor force participation rate, total

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

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
211
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Labour Organization

    Labour Force Statistics database (LFS), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: June 22, 2026

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Angola202574.34percent
Argentina202562.22percent
Australia202566.92percent
Austria202561.70percent
Belgium202556percent
Bhutan202564.74percent
Brazil202563.20percent
Bulgaria202555.10percent
Burkina Faso202568.11percent
Canada202565.28percent

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