List of countries by employment rate
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. This is a list of countries by employment rate (the proportion of working age adults employed, here with working age between 15 and 64 years old). The information is based largely on data from the OECD as at 2013 and can be expanded as new data (with sources) is found. Employment data for the European Union countries can be retrieved from Eurostat [1].
Due to different methods for calculating the unemployment rate, the employment rate can be used as a supplemental method of comparison.
List
| Rank by sovereign state |
Rank by entity |
Entity | Employment rate (%) |
Source / date of information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  Iceland |
82.2 | 2014 OECD [2]. |
| 2 | 2 |  Switzerland |
79.8 | 2014 OECD [3]. |
| 3 | 3 |  Norway |
75.3 | 2014 OECD [4]. |
| 4 | 4 |  Estonia |
75.2 | 2010 OECD [5]. |
| 5 | 5 |  Sweden |
74.9 | 2014 OECD [6]. |
| 6 | 6 |  New Zealand |
74.2 | 2014 OECD [7]. |
| 7 | 7 |  United Kingdom |
74 | 2016 ONS [8]. |
| 8 | 8 |  Germany |
73.8 | 2014 OECD [9]. |
| 9 | 9 |  Netherlands |
73.1 | 2014 OECD [10]. |
| 10 | 10 |  Denmark |
72.8 | 2014 OECD [11]. |
| 11 | 11 |  Japan |
72.7 | 2014 OECD [12]. |
| 12 | 12 |  Canada |
72.3 | 2014 OECD [13]. |
| 13 | 13 |  Australia |
71.6 | 2014 OECD [14]. |
| 14 | 14 |  Austria |
71.1 | 2014 OECD [15]. |
| 15 | 15 | Estonia |
69.6 | 2014 OECD [16]. |
| 16 | 16 |  Russia |
69.3 | 2014 OECD [17]. |
| 17 | 17 |  Czech Republic |
69.0 | 2014 OECD [18]. |
| 18 | 18 |  Finland |
68.9 | 2014 OECD [19]. |
| 19 | 19 |  United States |
68.1 | 2014 OECD [20]. |
| 20 | 20 |  Israel |
67.9 | 2014 OECD [21]. |
| 21 | 21 |  Colombia |
67.1 | 2014 OECD [22]. |
| 22 | 22 |  Brazil |
66.7 | 2013 OECD [23]. |
| 23 | 23 |  Luxembourg |
66.6 | 2014 OECD [24]. |
| 24 | 24 |  Latvia |
66.3 | 2014 OECD [25]. |
| 25 | 25 |  South Korea |
65.9 | 2015 Statistics Korea [26]. |
| — | 26 | OECD Average | 65.8 | 2014 OECD [27]. |
| 26 | 27 |  Lithuania |
65.7 | 2014 OECD [28]. |
| 27 | 28 |  France |
64.2 | 2014 OECD [29]. |
| 28 | 29 |  Slovenia |
63.9 | 2014 OECD [30]. |
| 29 | 30 |  Portugal |
62.6 | 2014 OECD [31]. |
| 30 | 31 |  Chile |
62.2 | 2014 OECD [32]. |
| 31 | 32 |  Belgium |
61.9 | 2014 OECD [33]. |
| 32 | 33 |  Hungary |
61.8 | 2014 OECD [34]. |
| 33 | 34 |  India |
61.7 | 2014 OECD [35]. |
| 34 | 35 |  Poland |
61.7 | 2014 OECD [36]. |
| 35 | 36 |  Costa Rica |
61.7 | 2014 OECD [37]. |
| 36 | 37 |  Ireland |
61.3 | 2014 OECD [38]. |
| 37 | 38 |  Slovakia |
61.0 | 2014 OECD [39]. |
| 38 | 39 |  Mexico |
60.4 | 2014 OECD [40]. |
| 39 | 40 |  Spain |
56.8 | 2014 OECD [41]. |
| 40 | 41 |  Italy |
56.5 | 2014 OECD [42]. |
| 41 | 42 |  Turkey |
49.5 | 2014 OECD [43]. |
See also
- List of countries by job security
- List of countries by unemployment rate
- Female labor force in the Muslim world
