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Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2017

2017, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2017 covers 187 countries. Qatar is highest, at 87.375; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at 21.777. The middle country reads 56.738. Against 2016, 187 values changed (104 up, 83 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment-to-Population Ratio · Data for 2017

HighestQatar

87.375

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

21.777

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia87.375
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa83.828
3Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia83.707
4TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa82.305
5CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia81.294
6North KoreaPRKEastern Asia79.222
7BurundiBDIEastern Africa79.093
8NigeriaNGAWestern Africa76.982
9United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia76.820
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa75.875
11VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia75.753
12IcelandISLNorthern Europe74.784
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa74.551
14Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa74.479
15EritreaERIEastern Africa74.411
16PeruPERSouth America74.154
17BeninBENWestern Africa73.058
18EthiopiaETHEastern Africa72.766
19NigerNERWestern Africa72.487
20KuwaitKWTWestern Asia71.751
21BahrainBHRWestern Asia71.534
22KenyaKENEastern Africa69.745
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa69.299
24Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa69.140
25OmanOMNWestern Asia68.924

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar87.375
  2. 2Madagascar83.828
  3. 3Solomon Islands83.707
  4. 4Tanzania82.305
  5. 5Cambodia81.294

Lowest

  1. 187São Tomé and Príncipe21.777
  2. 186Djibouti23.861
  3. 185Yemen26.427
  4. 184Somalia27.809
  5. 183Syria32.608

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 56.738. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 104 · 83rose · 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 2017.

  • 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) (2017). Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/employment-ratio/2017

0635 held

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07Questions

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment-to-population ratio in Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2017?

Qatar, at 87.375, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2017 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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