Women's labour force participation in Guinea

The ILO estimates that 42.6% of women aged 15 and over in Guinea were in the labour force in 2025.

Measure: Labour force participation rate of women (ILO modelled estimates) Unit: % of women aged 15 and over Data: 1991 to 2025 Source: ILOSTAT
Guinea, 2025 42.6% % of women aged 15 and over
Change from 2024 −0.2percentage points 2024: 42.9%
World, 2025 48.7% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 139th of 181 See the full ranking

Women's labour force participation in Guinea over time

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% of women aged 15 and over. Source: ILO, ILOSTAT (ILO Modelled Estimates). Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years. Dashed lines are projections.

Labour force participation rate of women (ILO modelled estimates) (% of women aged 15 and over), 2003 to 2027 – the last ten estimates and projections every five years; the CSV has every year
Period GuineaWorld
2025 42.6% 48.7%
2024 42.9% 48.9%
2023 42.7% 48.8%
2022 42.5% 48.3%
2021 42.0% 47.9%
2020 41.9% 47.0%
2019 42.3% 48.3%
2018 43.5% 48.3%
2017 44.7% 48.4%
2016 46.0% 48.5%

Flags: f Projection . A dash means no value was published.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.2 percentage points from 42.9% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 47.2%, the figure has changed by −4.5 percentage points.
  • Among the 181 countries with data for 2025, Guinea has the 139th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 48.7%.

Source and dates

Original producer
International Labour Organization, ILO Modelled Estimates
Distributed by
International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT
Dataset or series code
ILO,DF_EAP_2WAP_SEX_AGE_RT,1.0 · dataset details · view at source
Selection
.A..SEX_F.AGE_YTHADULT_YGE15
Observation period
1991 to 2025 for Guinea
Provider update
Not stated by the provider
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Attribution
Source: ILO, ILOSTAT (ILO Modelled Estimates), original data: International Labour Organization, ILO Modelled Estimates