Female Labour Force Participation Rate

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: female-labour-participation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Female Labour Force Participation Rate: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	182	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	182	0
Women aged 15+ in the labour force (%)female_labour_participationHeadline	The headline figure: Women aged 15+ in the labour force (%).	Number · up to 3 decimals	4.663Yemen82.913Madagascarmiddle 53.363	182	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

The newest 12 of 36 years.

Not in this dataset · 37 places this site covers

ILO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoDominicaFaroe IslandsGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNiueNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSan MarinoSeychellesSint MaartenSomalilandTaiwanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   International Labour Organization (ILO)

   ilostat.ilo.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Female Labour Force Participation Rate 2025

   SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 6, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   36 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as female-labour-participation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/female-labour-participation

From the ILO’s modelled estimates via the World Bank’s indicator API (SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS). Modelled rather than measured, so one definition applies to every country.

• Charted

  Female Labour Force Participation Rate by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Work & Labour
  • Gender & Equality

• Near neighbours

  • Employment-to-Population RatioILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
  • Unemployment RateILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
  • Vulnerable EmploymentILO · 35 held · 1991–2025