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Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2003

2003, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2003 covers 187 countries. Tanzania is highest, at 84.569; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at 20.123. The middle country reads 55.630. Against 2002, 187 values changed (82 up, 105 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment-to-Population Ratio · Data for 2003

HighestTanzania

84.569

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

20.123

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, 2003, 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, 2003: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa84.569
2MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa83.572
3Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia82.726
4QatarQATWestern Asia82.493
5MadagascarMDGEastern Africa82.164
6CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia79.688
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa79.665
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa79.599
9Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa79.156
10North KoreaPRKEastern Asia79.110
11BurundiBDIEastern Africa77.678
12NigerNERWestern Africa77.475
13CameroonCMRMiddle Africa76.985
14MalawiMWIEastern Africa76.641
15EritreaERIEastern Africa75.582
16LiberiaLBRWestern Africa75.206
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe74.142
18United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia73.280
19VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia72.429
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia71.890
21UgandaUGAEastern Africa71.493
22BeninBENWestern Africa71.228
23KenyaKENEastern Africa70.782
24VanuatuVUTMelanesia70.417
25DR CongoCODMiddle Africa70.348

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tanzania84.569
  2. 2Mozambique83.572
  3. 3Solomon Islands82.726
  4. 4Qatar82.493
  5. 5Madagascar82.164

Lowest

  1. 187São Tomé and Príncipe20.123
  2. 186Djibouti24.814
  3. 185Somalia27.803
  4. 184Palestine29.843
  5. 183Jordan31.977

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 55.630. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 82 · 105rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

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 2003.

  • 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) (2003). Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/employment-ratio/2003

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07Questions

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment-to-population ratio in Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2003?

Tanzania, at 84.569, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2003 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2003?

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, 2003 the newest?

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

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