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Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2020

2020, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2020 covers 187 countries. Qatar is highest, at 86.983; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at 20.885. The middle country reads 55.691. Against 2019, 187 values changed (17 up, 170 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment-to-Population Ratio · Data for 2020

HighestQatar

86.983

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

20.885

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia86.983
2Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia82.794
3CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia82.097
4MadagascarMDGEastern Africa81.804
5TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa81.353
6BurundiBDIEastern Africa77.737
7North KoreaPRKEastern Asia77.697
8United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia75.398
9UgandaUGAEastern Africa75.029
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa74.782
11MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa74.227
12NigerNERWestern Africa73.707
13BeninBENWestern Africa73.645
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa72.972
15VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia72.803
16EritreaERIEastern Africa72.568
17Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa71.738
18IcelandISLNorthern Europe69.526
19MoldovaMDAEastern Europe68.839
20BahrainBHRWestern Asia68.004
21Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa67.986
22MacauMACEastern Asia66.927
23KuwaitKWTWestern Asia66.785
24New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand66.653
25EthiopiaETHEastern Africa66.617

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar86.983
  2. 2Solomon Islands82.794
  3. 3Cambodia82.097
  4. 4Madagascar81.804
  5. 5Tanzania81.353

Lowest

  1. 187São Tomé and Príncipe20.885
  2. 186Djibouti22.821
  3. 185Yemen26.651
  4. 184Somalia27.163
  5. 183Palestine30.336

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 55.691. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 17 · 170rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Saint Lucia58.057 → 40.184−17.873
  • Belize63.413 → 48.795−14.618
  • Peru74.748 → 63.976−10.772
  • Chile58.346 → 50.196−8.150
  • Panama64.224 → 56.664−7.560

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 2020.

  • 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) (2020). Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/employment-ratio/2020

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07Questions

Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment-to-population ratio in Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2020?

Qatar, at 86.983, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2020 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment-to-Population Ratio, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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