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Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2009

2009, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2009 covers 187 countries. Tanzania is highest, at 84.751; Yemen is lowest, at 10.747. The middle country reads 52.019. Against 2008, 187 values changed (102 up, 85 down), the same countries are covered.

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Female Labour Force Participation Rate · Data for 2009

HighestTanzania

84.751

LowestYemen

10.747

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, 2009, 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, 2009: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa84.751
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa83.983
3MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa83.482
4Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia82.721
5BurundiBDIEastern Africa78.770
6North KoreaPRKEastern Asia77.635
7CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia77.375
8NigeriaNGAWestern Africa76.452
9AngolaAGOMiddle Africa75.627
10Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa75.067
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa74.399
12EritreaERIEastern Africa73.845
13CameroonCMRMiddle Africa73.187
14MalawiMWIEastern Africa72.149
15VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia71.906
16LiberiaLBRWestern Africa71.767
17South SudanSSDEastern Africa71.716
18KenyaKENEastern Africa70.995
19UgandaUGAEastern Africa70.765
20PeruPERSouth America70.561
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe70.221
22BahamasBHSCaribbean69.433
23BeninBENWestern Africa68.616
24NigerNERWestern Africa68.578
25GhanaGHAWestern Africa67.675

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tanzania84.751
  2. 2Madagascar83.983
  3. 3Mozambique83.482
  4. 4Solomon Islands82.721
  5. 5Burundi78.770

Lowest

  1. 187Yemen10.747
  2. 186Iraq12.132
  3. 185Syria13.210
  4. 184Algeria14.234
  5. 183Palestine14.582

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 52.019. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 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 2009.

  • 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) (2009). Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-labour-participation/2009

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07Questions

Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest female labour force participation in Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2009?

Tanzania, at 84.751, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2009 cover?

187.

Where can I download Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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