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Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2016

2016, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2016 covers 187 countries. Qatar is highest, at 87.344; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at 21.631. The middle country reads 56.845. Against 2015, 186 values changed (94 up, 92 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment-to-Population Ratio · Data for 2016

HighestQatar

87.344

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

21.631

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia87.344
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa84.157
3Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia83.719
4TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa82.274
5CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia81.149
6North KoreaPRKEastern Asia79.089
7BurundiBDIEastern Africa78.843
8NigeriaNGAWestern Africa77.206
9United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia77.160
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa76.135
11VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia75.542
12IcelandISLNorthern Europe75.111
13Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa74.767
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa74.567
15EritreaERIEastern Africa74.516
16EthiopiaETHEastern Africa74.416
17NigerNERWestern Africa72.716
18BeninBENWestern Africa72.563
19PeruPERSouth America72.557
20KenyaKENEastern Africa72.354
21UgandaUGAEastern Africa71.562
22KuwaitKWTWestern Asia71.133
23BahrainBHRWestern Asia71.120
24Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa69.166
25MaliMLIWestern Africa68.909

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar87.344
  2. 2Madagascar84.157
  3. 3Solomon Islands83.719
  4. 4Tanzania82.274
  5. 5Cambodia81.149

Lowest

  1. 187São Tomé and Príncipe21.631
  2. 186Djibouti24.004
  3. 185Yemen26.336
  4. 184Somalia27.782
  5. 183Syria32.512

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 56.845. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 186values changed, of 187 in both
  • 94 · 92rose · 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 2016.

  • 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) (2016). Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/employment-ratio/2016

0635 held

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07Questions

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment-to-population ratio in Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2016?

Qatar, at 87.344, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2016 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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