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Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2011

2011, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2011 covers 187 countries. Madagascar is highest, at 83.812; Yemen is lowest, at 8.785. The middle country reads 52.325. Against 2010, 185 values changed (95 up, 90 down), the same countries are covered.

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Female Labour Force Participation Rate · Data for 2011

HighestMadagascar

83.812

LowestYemen

8.785

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, 2011, 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, 2011: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1MadagascarMDGEastern Africa83.812
2TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa83.001
3Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia82.425
4CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia81.841
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa81.819
6BurundiBDIEastern Africa79.631
7UgandaUGAEastern Africa77.925
8North KoreaPRKEastern Asia77.646
9NigeriaNGAWestern Africa75.937
10AngolaAGOMiddle Africa74.865
11Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa74.565
12EthiopiaETHEastern Africa74.322
13EritreaERIEastern Africa73.716
14South SudanSSDEastern Africa72.098
15LiberiaLBRWestern Africa71.865
16VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia71.715
17PeruPERSouth America71.205
18KenyaKENEastern Africa71.114
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe70.047
20BahamasBHSCaribbean69.633
21CameroonCMRMiddle Africa69.623
22BeninBENWestern Africa69.588
23MalawiMWIEastern Africa68.774
24NigerNERWestern Africa68.533
25GhanaGHAWestern Africa67.404

02In 2011

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Madagascar83.812
  2. 2Tanzania83.001
  3. 3Solomon Islands82.425
  4. 4Cambodia81.841
  5. 5Mozambique81.819

Lowest

  1. 187Yemen8.785
  2. 186Iraq11.965
  3. 185Iran13.595
  4. 184Jordan14.424
  5. 183Algeria14.614

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 52.325. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

What changed between 2010 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 185values changed, of 187 in both
  • 95 · 90rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Honduras42.656 → 39.675−2.981
  • Panama48.359 → 46.159−2.200
  • Malawi70.490 → 68.774−1.716
  • Croatia46.029 → 44.475−1.554
  • Iran15.140 → 13.595−1.545

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 2011.

  • 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) (2011). Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-labour-participation/2011

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07Questions

Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2011: questions and answers

Which country has the highest female labour force participation in Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2011?

Madagascar, at 83.812, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2011 describe?

2011.

How many countries does Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2011 cover?

187.

Where can I download Female Labour Force Participation Rate, 2011?

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, 2011 the newest?

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

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