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Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2000

2000, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2000 covers 187 countries. Tanzania is highest, at 83.736; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at 20.703. The middle country reads 55.861. Against 1999, 186 values changed (87 up, 99 down), the same countries are covered.

Employment-to-Population Ratio · Data for 2000

HighestTanzania

83.736

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

20.703

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2000, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 187 countries · select a heading to sort

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2000: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa83.736
2MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa82.607
3Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia81.928
4QatarQATWestern Asia81.916
5MadagascarMDGEastern Africa81.308
6NigeriaNGAWestern Africa80.075
7BurundiBDIEastern Africa80.062
8Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa79.869
9CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia79.830
10North KoreaPRKEastern Asia79.208
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa79.202
12NigerNERWestern Africa77.885
13MalawiMWIEastern Africa76.764
14IcelandISLNorthern Europe76.355
15EritreaERIEastern Africa76.192
16CameroonCMRMiddle Africa75.776
17LiberiaLBRWestern Africa75.542
18United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia72.831
19ChinaCHNEastern Asia71.772
20VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia71.734
21ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia71.727
22UgandaUGAEastern Africa71.674
23BeninBENWestern Africa71.212
24VanuatuVUTMelanesia70.470
25KenyaKENEastern Africa70.421

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tanzania83.736
  2. 2Mozambique82.607
  3. 3Solomon Islands81.928
  4. 4Qatar81.916
  5. 5Madagascar81.308

Lowest

  1. 187São Tomé and Príncipe20.703
  2. 186Djibouti24.944
  3. 185Somalia27.720
  4. 184Algeria31.094
  5. 183Jordan34.002

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 55.861. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031999 → 2000

Since 1999

What changed between 1999 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 186values changed, of 187 in both
  • 87 · 99rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method
  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2000.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 187 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (2000). Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/employment-ratio/2000

0635 held

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07Questions

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2000: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment-to-population ratio in Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2000?

Tanzania, at 83.736, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2000 describe?

2000.

How many countries does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2000 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2000?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2000 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2025.

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