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Labour Force Participation Rate, 2003

2003, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Labour Force Participation Rate, 2003 covers 187 countries. Tanzania is highest, at 87.232; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at 24.059. The middle country reads 60.879. Against 2002, 186 values changed (75 up, 111 down), the same countries are covered.

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Labour Force Participation Rate · Data for 2003

HighestTanzania

87.232

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

24.059

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, 2003, 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, 2003: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa87.232
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa86.497
3MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa86.030
4Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia84.662
5QatarQATWestern Asia83.217
6NigeriaNGAWestern Africa82.671
7North KoreaPRKEastern Asia82.122
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa82.067
9CameroonCMRMiddle Africa81.819
10Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa81.420
11MalawiMWIEastern Africa80.815
12CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia80.420
13EritreaERIEastern Africa80.226
14BurundiBDIEastern Africa80.201
15NigerNERWestern Africa79.173
16AngolaAGOMiddle Africa77.302
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe77.229
18VanuatuVUTMelanesia77.092
19LiberiaLBRWestern Africa77.071
20United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia75.471
21South SudanSSDEastern Africa74.463
22BahamasBHSCaribbean74.334
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa74.163
24VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia74.096
25ChinaCHNEastern Asia73.246

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tanzania87.232
  2. 2Madagascar86.497
  3. 3Mozambique86.030
  4. 4Solomon Islands84.662
  5. 5Qatar83.217

Lowest

  1. 187São Tomé and Príncipe24.059
  2. 186Djibouti33.753
  3. 185Somalia34.176
  4. 184Jordan37.400
  5. 183Palestine38.759

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 60.879. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 186values changed, of 187 in both
  • 75 · 111rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 2003.

  • 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) (2003). Labour Force Participation Rate, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/labour-participation/2003

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07Questions

Labour Force Participation Rate, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest labour force participation in Labour Force Participation Rate, 2003?

Tanzania, at 87.232, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Labour Force Participation Rate, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does Labour Force Participation Rate, 2003 cover?

187.

Where can I download Labour Force Participation Rate, 2003?

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, 2003 the newest?

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

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