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Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2001

2001, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2001 covers 187 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 87.558; Palestine is lowest, at 10.040. The middle country reads 50.088. Against 2000, 187 values changed (102 up, 85 down), the same countries are covered.

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Female Labour Force Participation Rate · Data for 2001

HighestMozambique

87.558

LowestPalestine

10.040

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 Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2001, 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

Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2001: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa87.558
2TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa84.350
3MadagascarMDGEastern Africa83.976
4Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia82.954
5BurundiBDIEastern Africa82.480
6MalawiMWIEastern Africa78.122
7CameroonCMRMiddle Africa77.905
8North KoreaPRKEastern Asia77.808
9NigeriaNGAWestern Africa77.400
10CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia77.074
11Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa77.068
12AngolaAGOMiddle Africa75.522
13EthiopiaETHEastern Africa74.554
14EritreaERIEastern Africa74.071
15VanuatuVUTMelanesia74.020
16IcelandISLNorthern Europe72.559
17LiberiaLBRWestern Africa71.801
18VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia71.493
19DR CongoCODMiddle Africa71.340
20UgandaUGAEastern Africa71.229
21South SudanSSDEastern Africa71.154
22KenyaKENEastern Africa70.531
23AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia70.283
24NigerNERWestern Africa68.958
25GhanaGHAWestern Africa68.760

02In 2001

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique87.558
  2. 2Tanzania84.350
  3. 3Madagascar83.976
  4. 4Solomon Islands82.954
  5. 5Burundi82.480

Lowest

  1. 187Palestine10.040
  2. 186Iraq10.089
  3. 185Jordan11.289
  4. 184Algeria12.160
  5. 183Afghanistan14.196

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 50.088. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 102 · 85rose · 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 2001.

  • 185 distinct values among 187

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 58.578. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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) (2001). Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-labour-participation/2001

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07Questions

Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest female labour force participation in Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2001?

Mozambique, at 87.558, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2001 cover?

187.

Where can I download Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2001?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2001 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2025.

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