Labour force participation rate of women (ILO modelled estimates)
Women aged 15 and over who are employed or looking for work, as a share of all women of that age, from the ILO modelled estimates. Values for the current and following years are ILO projections.
Highest in 2025
82.9%
Madagascar
Lowest in 2025
4.7%
Yemen
World, 2025
48.7%
Official aggregate published by the source
Countries ranked for 2025
181
181 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.
Trend 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.
| Period | World | United States | China | India |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48.7% | 56.3% | 59.1% | 32.4% |
| 2024 | 48.9% | 56.6% | 59.4% | 32.4% |
| 2023 | 48.8% | 56.6% | 60.2% | 31.0% |
| 2022 | 48.3% | 56.0% | 60.1% | 29.3% |
| 2021 | 47.9% | 55.6% | 61.2% | 27.7% |
| 2020 | 47.0% | 55.7% | 59.7% | 26.0% |
| 2019 | 48.3% | 56.9% | 61.3% | 26.5% |
| 2018 | 48.3% | 56.5% | 61.6% | 26.6% |
| 2017 | 48.4% | 56.4% | 62.0% | 26.6% |
| 2016 | 48.5% | 56.1% | 62.3% | 26.6% |
Flags: f Projection . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 181 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Madagascar (82.9%) and the lowest Yemen (4.7%).
- Half of the countries are above 53.4% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 62 countries and fell in 119.
- The figure for the world was 48.7% in 2025, against 47.0% in 2020 (+1.7 percentage points).
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Source and dates
All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Madagascar 82.9%
- 2 Solomon Islands 82.3%
- 3 Nigeria 80.7%
- 4 Tanzania 80.3%
- 5 Burundi 79.5%
- 6 North Korea 77.7%
- 7 Cambodia 77.4%
- 8 Mozambique 77.1%
- 9 Uganda 75.6%
- 10 Benin 75.2%
- 11 Bolivia 72.9%
- 12 Eritrea 72.8%
- 13 Niger 72.8%
- 14 Moldova 72.3%
- 15 Angola 72.2%
- 16 Liberia 72.0%
- 17 Bahamas 70.7%
- 18 Iceland 70.0%
- 19 Viet Nam 68.6%
- 20 New Zealand 66.1%
- 21 Republic of the Congo 65.6%
- 22 Central African Republic 65.5%
- 23 Peru 65.0%
- 24 Burkina Faso 64.1%
- 25 Botswana 63.7%
- 26 Singapore 63.6%
- 27 Macao SAR, China 63.1%
- 28 Kenya 63.0%
- 29 Jamaica 63.0%
- 30 Netherlands 62.7%
- 31 Kazakhstan 62.6%
- 32 Australia 62.5%
- 33 Israel 62.3%
- 34 Switzerland 62.2%
- 35 Zimbabwe 62.2%
- 36 Norway 62.1%
- 37 Saint Lucia 62.0%
- 38 Qatar 61.9%
- 39 Democratic Republic of the Congo 61.8%
- 40 Timor-Leste 61.7%
- 41 Laos 61.6%
- 42 Sweden 61.5%
- 43 Cyprus 61.2%
- 44 Barbados 61.0%
- 45 Estonia 61.0%
- 46 Denmark 60.8%
- 47 Azerbaijan 60.8%
- 48 Guinea-Bissau 60.3%
- 49 Canada 60.2%
- 50 Ireland 59.8%
- 51 Côte d'Ivoire 59.5%
- 52 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 59.2%
- 53 China 59.1%
- 54 Paraguay 59.0%
- 55 Thailand 59.0%
- 56 Albania 58.6%
- 57 Ethiopia 58.5%
- 58 Haiti 58.3%
- 59 Malawi 58.2%
- 60 Lithuania 57.7%
- 61 Luxembourg 57.5%
- 62 United Kingdom 57.3%
- 63 Rwanda 57.3%
- 64 Uruguay 57.3%
- 65 South Korea 56.8%
- 66 Belarus 56.8%
- 67 Bhutan 56.7%
- 68 Georgia 56.7%
- 69 Togo 56.6%
- 70 Cameroon 56.6%
- 71 Guam 56.5%
- 72 Finland 56.5%
- 73 Zambia 56.4%
- 74 United States 56.3%
- 75 Japan 55.9%
- 76 Malta 55.8%
- 77 Germany 55.3%
- 78 Ghana 55.3%
- 79 Latvia 55.2%
- 80 Slovakia 55.1%
- 81 Austria 55.1%
- 82 Panama 54.9%
- 83 Namibia 54.9%
- 84 Portugal 54.6%
- 85 Russia 54.5%
- 86 Brunei 54.4%
- 87 Hungary 54.3%
- 88 Indonesia 53.7%
- 89 Dominican Republic 53.7%
- 90 Czechia 53.5%
- 91 Brazil 53.4%
- 92 Vanuatu 53.3%
- 93 United Arab Emirates 53.0%
- 94 Chile 52.9%
- 95 Mali 52.8%
- 96 Spain 52.8%
- 97 US Virgin Islands 52.8%
- 98 Serbia 52.6%
- 99 Equatorial Guinea 52.6%
- 100 Argentina 52.5%
- 101 Ecuador 52.4%
- 102 Slovenia 52.3%
- 103 Hong Kong SAR, China 51.8%
- 104 Malaysia 51.6%
- 105 Colombia 51.6%
- 106 Poland 51.6%
- 107 Sierra Leone 51.6%
- 108 France 51.5%
- 109 Mongolia 51.5%
- 110 Nicaragua 51.3%
- 111 Montenegro 51.2%
- 112 New Caledonia 51.1%
- 113 Armenia 51.1%
- 114 Papua New Guinea 50.8%
- 115 Philippines 50.5%
- 116 Cabo Verde 50.5%
- 117 Bulgaria 50.4%
- 118 South Africa 49.9%
- 119 Belgium 49.8%
- 120 El Salvador 49.1%
- 121 Eswatini 48.5%
- 122 Lesotho 48.1%
- 123 Trinidad and Tobago 47.8%
- 124 Comoros 47.6%
- 125 Mauritius 47.5%
- 126 Mexico 47.5%
- 127 Croatia 47.4%
- 128 Guyana 47.4%
- 129 Chad 47.3%
- 130 Kuwait 47.2%
- 131 French Polynesia 46.6%
- 132 Belize 46.5%
- 133 Costa Rica 46.0%
- 134 Gambia 45.5%
- 135 Suriname 44.9%
- 136 Greece 44.7%
- 137 Kyrgyzstan 44.1%
- 138 North Macedonia 42.7%
- 139 Guinea 42.6%
- 140 Tonga 42.3%
- 141 Bahrain 42.3%
- 142 Romania 41.8%
- 143 Gabon 41.6%
- 144 Uzbekistan 41.2%
- 145 Myanmar 40.9%
- 146 Italy 40.8%
- 147 Maldives 40.7%
- 148 Cuba 40.0%
- 149 Honduras 39.6%
- 150 Bosnia and Herzegovina 39.2%
- 151 Bangladesh 38.6%
- 152 Fiji 38.5%
- 153 Guatemala 38.3%
- 154 Turkmenistan 38.2%
- 155 Senegal 38.2%
- 156 Türkiye 37.1%
- 157 Venezuela 37.1%
- 158 Puerto Rico (US) 36.9%
- 159 Saudi Arabia 33.6%
- 160 Libya 33.0%
- 161 India 32.4%
- 162 Sri Lanka 31.0%
- 163 Samoa 30.7%
- 164 Oman 30.0%
- 165 Nepal 27.5%
- 166 Tunisia 26.5%
- 167 Mauritania 26.2%
- 168 Pakistan 24.0%
- 169 São Tomé and Príncipe 22.7%
- 170 Tajikistan 21.9%
- 171 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 20.7%
- 172 Morocco 19.7%
- 173 Djibouti 19.4%
- 174 Egypt 18.5%
- 175 Jordan 16.0%
- 176 Algeria 14.1%
- 177 Iran 14.0%
- 178 Syria 12.7%
- 179 Iraq 10.9%
- 180 Afghanistan 5.1%
- 181 Yemen 4.7%
- World 48.7%
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