Dataset · ILO
Compliance with Labour Rights
10 years, 2015–2024 · 186 countries
This is the United Nations’ measure of whether workers can form trade unions and bargain collectively. The International Labour Organization scores each country from 0, where its supervisory bodies and the country’s laws show no violation of those rights, to 10, where they show the most. It is the official indicator for the labour-rights part of Sustainable Development Goal 8.
This site holds every year from 2015 to 2024, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Compliance with Labour Rights · the file
- Newest
- Compliance with Labour Rights, 2024
- Held
- 10 years · 1,862 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0110 years
Every year
Every year comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compliance with Labour Rights, 2024Newest | 186 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Compliance with Labour Rights, 2023 | 186 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Compliance with Labour Rights, 2022 | 186 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Compliance with Labour Rights, 2021 | 186 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Compliance with Labour Rights, 2020 | 186 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Compliance with Labour Rights, 2019 | 186 | −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Compliance with Labour Rights, 2018 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Compliance with Labour Rights, 2017 | 187 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Compliance with Labour Rights, 2016 | 187 | +2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Compliance with Labour Rights, 2015 | 185 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: labour-rights-compliance-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 186 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 186 | 0 | |
Level of national compliance with freedom of association and collective bargaining rights (0 = best, 10 = worst)labour_rights_complianceHeadline | The headline figure: Compliance with freedom of association and collective bargaining rights (0 = best, 10 = worst). | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.0013 share it10.003 share itmiddle 1.61 | 140 | 0 | |
ILO remark on the scoreilo_remarkLabel | The ILO’s own remark on the score, where it attached one — in practice a caution that the score may rest on too little information in the texts it is built from. | Text | — | 1 | 160 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.
03187 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 |
| Americas | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
| Asia | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 |
| Europe | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Oceania | 11 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| All | 185 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 186 | 186 | 186 | 186 | 186 | 186 |
− Somalia
+ Cook Islands
+ TongaNot in this dataset · 38 places this site covers
ILO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Aruba
Bermuda
Bhutan
British Virgin Islands
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Curaçao
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Kosovo
Liechtenstein
Macau
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Nauru
New Caledonia
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Palestine
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin
Sint MaartenSomaliland
Taiwan
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
International Labour Organization (ILO)
2 · Their file
Compliance with Labour Rights 2024
Read from the publisher’s own service.3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
10 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as labour-rights-compliance-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
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.
SDG indicator 8.8.2, computed by the ILO from its supervisory bodies’ texts and national legislation, and read from ILOSTAT directly.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), Compliance with Labour Rights, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
International Labour Organization (ILO). Compliance with Labour Rights, 2015–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/labour-rights-compliance
The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. SDG indicator 8.8.2: Level of national compliance with labour rights (freedom of association and collective bargaining). ILOSTAT. Geneva: ILO.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Compliance with Labour Rights by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Employment-to-Population RatioILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
- Unemployment RateILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
- Vulnerable EmploymentILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
07Questions
Compliance with Labour Rights: questions and answers
What is the Compliance with Labour Rights?
This is the United Nations’ measure of whether workers can form trade unions and bargain collectively. The International Labour Organization scores each country from 0, where its supervisory bodies and the country’s laws show no violation of those rights, to 10, where they show the most. It is the official indicator for the labour-rights part of Sustainable Development Goal 8.
Which years of the Compliance with Labour Rights can I download?
All 10, from 2015 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does ILO rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to ILO. The licence text is linked on this page.