Countries by Employment Rate

Global country ranking by employment rate with latest available values, source notes, country links and economic context from World Bank / public data.
INDICATOR: Employment Rate
UNIT: percent
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
CACHE: live
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:09:26

Full ranking · Employment Rate

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Rank Country Latest value Class Country page
1 Qatar 86.9 open
2 Solomon Islands 83.09 open
3 Cambodia 82.18 open
4 Nigeria 79.99 open
5 North Korea 79.24 open
6 United Arab Emirates 76.89 open
7 Iceland 72.21 open
8 Kuwait 71.77 open
9 Vietnam 71.67 open
10 Bahrain 69.65 open
11 Peru 69.13 open
12 Singapore 67.71 open
13 New Zealand 66.78 open
14 Macao 66.26 open
15 Ethiopia 66.19 open
16 Thailand 66.16 open
17 Oman 66.15 open
18 Timor-Leste 65.91 open
19 Indonesia 65.77 open
20 Laos 65.3 open
21 Netherlands 64.64 open
22 Kazakhstan 64.54 open
23 Australia 63.82 open
24 Kenya 63.71 open
25 Cyprus 63.66 open
26 Malaysia 63.63 open
27 Switzerland 63.49 open
28 Israel 63.2 open
29 Saudi Arabia 63.12 open
30 Bhutan 62.73 open
31 South Korea 62.62 open
32 Norway 62.56 open
33 Japan 61.89 open
34 Ireland 61.84 open
35 China 61.57 open
36 Denmark 61.35 open
37 Brunei 60.85 open
38 Canada 60.06 open
39 Philippines 59.98 open
40 Mexico 59.96 open
41 Azerbaijan 59.83 open
42 Russia 59.81 open
43 Estonia 59.71 open
44 Brazil 59.37 open
45 United States 59.11 open
46 Sweden 58.98 open
47 Lithuania 58.68 open
48 Czech Republic 58.64 open
49 United Kingdom 58.46 open
50 Germany 58.32 open
51 Colombia 58.14 open
52 Hungary 57.84 open
53 Luxembourg 57.6 open
54 Argentina 57.49 open
55 Slovakia 57.18 open
56 Ghana 56.78 open
57 Austria 56.77 open
58 Chile 56.71 open
59 Poland 56.58 open
60 Bangladesh 56.57 open
61 Mongolia 56.57 open
62 Latvia 56.55 open
63 Georgia 56.53 open
64 Slovenia 55.74 open
65 Kyrgyzstan 55.34 open
66 Vanuatu 55.16 open
67 Serbia 54.93 open
68 Uzbekistan 54.84 open
69 Hong Kong 54.78 open
70 Portugal 54.58 open
71 Bulgaria 54.13 open
72 Fiji 54.1 open
73 Finland 54.04 open
74 India 53.31 open
75 Armenia 51.74 open
76 Spain 51.45 open
77 France 51.17 open
78 Belgium 51.07 open
79 Papua New Guinea 50.73 open
80 Turkey 49.75 open
81 Croatia 49.54 open
82 Pakistan 49.5 open
83 Ukraine 49.27 open
84 Tonga 48.81 open
85 Romania 48.26 open
86 Greece 47.52 open
87 Sri Lanka 46.57 open
88 Italy 46.15 open
89 Egypt 41.55 open
90 Samoa 40.41 open
91 Turkmenistan 40.24 open
92 Morocco 39.99 open
93 Lebanon 38.65 open
94 Tunisia 38.39 open
95 South Africa 37.58 open
96 Iran 37.57 open
97 Algeria 36.04 open
98 Tajikistan 35.62 open
99 Iraq 35.1 open
100 West Bank and Gaza 34 open
101 Jordan 33.43 open
102 Afghanistan 32.46 open
103 Syria 31.89 open
104 Yemen 27.37 open

Ranking interpretation

context

This ranking uses the latest available value in the local indicator dataset.

Production version: ranking tables should show source timestamp, latest available year and fallback status.

Countries by Employment Rate: data context and use

This page is part of the Economy Data indicator system. It provides structured country-level economic data, historical series, rankings and comparison views for researchers, students, journalists and decision makers. The page combines indicator metadata, country context, latest available values, ranking information and source notes.

The selected indicator is Employment Rate for Germany. The data are designed for quick comparison across countries and for deeper interpretation together with related macroeconomic indicators such as GDP growth, government debt, unemployment, current account balance, exports, imports, population and inequality.

Keyphrase synonyms: employment rate by country, global employment rate ranking, country ranking employment rate, best countries by employment rate.