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Labour Force Participation Rate, 1992

1992, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Labour Force Participation Rate, 1992 covers 187 countries. Burundi is highest, at 88.994; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at 24.702. The middle country reads 61.401. Against 1991, 184 values changed (88 up, 96 down), the same countries are covered.

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Labour Force Participation Rate · Data for 1992

HighestBurundi

88.994

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

24.702

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 Labour Force Participation Rate, 1992, 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

Labour Force Participation Rate, 1992: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1BurundiBDIEastern Africa88.994
2TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa86.633
3MadagascarMDGEastern Africa86.151
4MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa84.059
5Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa83.732
6QatarQATWestern Asia83.519
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa83.018
8Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia82.967
9CameroonCMRMiddle Africa82.230
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa81.803
11North KoreaPRKEastern Asia81.766
12EritreaERIEastern Africa80.962
13MalawiMWIEastern Africa80.750
14CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia79.919
15NigerNERWestern Africa78.873
16ChinaCHNEastern Asia78.234
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia77.870
18GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia77.627
19AngolaAGOMiddle Africa77.342
20LiberiaLBRWestern Africa77.308
21VanuatuVUTMelanesia76.974
22ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia75.060
23United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia74.952
24South SudanSSDEastern Africa74.381
25LesothoLSOSouthern Africa73.638

02In 1992

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Burundi88.994
  2. 2Tanzania86.633
  3. 3Madagascar86.151
  4. 4Mozambique84.059
  5. 5Burkina Faso83.732

Lowest

  1. 187São Tomé and Príncipe24.702
  2. 186Somalia33.862
  3. 185Djibouti35.002
  4. 184Jordan39.401
  5. 183Palestine40.316

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 61.401. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031991 → 1992

Since 1991

What changed between 1991 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 184values changed, of 187 in both
  • 88 · 96rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

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 1992.

  • 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) (1992). Labour Force Participation Rate, 1992 [data set], describing 1992. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/labour-participation/1992

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07Questions

Labour Force Participation Rate, 1992: questions and answers

Which country has the highest labour force participation in Labour Force Participation Rate, 1992?

Burundi, at 88.994, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Labour Force Participation Rate, 1992 describe?

1992.

How many countries does Labour Force Participation Rate, 1992 cover?

187.

Where can I download Labour Force Participation Rate, 1992?

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

Is Labour Force Participation Rate, 1992 the newest?

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

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