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Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2004

2004, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2004 covers 187 countries. Tanzania is highest, at 84.894; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at 20.163. The middle country reads 55.465. Against 2003, 186 values changed (98 up, 88 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment-to-Population Ratio · Data for 2004

HighestTanzania

84.894

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

20.163

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, 2004, 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, 2004: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa84.894
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa83.095
3MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa83.006
4Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia82.836
5QatarQATWestern Asia81.658
6CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia79.814
7EthiopiaETHEastern Africa79.768
8NigeriaNGAWestern Africa79.476
9North KoreaPRKEastern Asia79.125
10Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa78.372
11CameroonCMRMiddle Africa77.627
12NigerNERWestern Africa77.051
13BurundiBDIEastern Africa76.826
14MalawiMWIEastern Africa76.797
15EritreaERIEastern Africa75.461
16LiberiaLBRWestern Africa75.206
17United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia73.803
18IcelandISLNorthern Europe73.235
19VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia72.402
20UgandaUGAEastern Africa72.098
21ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia71.915
22BeninBENWestern Africa71.212
23KenyaKENEastern Africa70.917
24VanuatuVUTMelanesia70.561
25DR CongoCODMiddle Africa70.419

02In 2004

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tanzania84.894
  2. 2Madagascar83.095
  3. 3Mozambique83.006
  4. 4Solomon Islands82.836
  5. 5Qatar81.658

Lowest

  1. 187São Tomé and Príncipe20.163
  2. 186Djibouti24.824
  3. 185Somalia27.840
  4. 184Palestine29.349
  5. 183Jordan32.313

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 55.465. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 186values changed, of 187 in both
  • 98 · 88rose · 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 2004.

  • 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) (2004). Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/employment-ratio/2004

0635 held

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07Questions

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2004: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment-to-population ratio in Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2004?

Tanzania, at 84.894, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2004 describe?

2004.

How many countries does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2004 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2004?

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, 2004 the newest?

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

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