Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2020

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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2020: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).

Positionderived	Country	Composite rate of labour underutilisation, LU4 (% of the extended labour force)	Women (%)	Men (%)	ILO observation status
1	HondurasHNDCentral America	49.82	63.22	36.086	Break in series
2	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	45.78	49.77	42.278	—
3	Costa RicaCRICentral America	41.55	48.85	36.292	—
4	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	40.30	62.06	32.092	Break in series
5	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	40.20	45.70	34.502	—
6	PalestinePSEWestern Asia	36.30	57.02	29.983	—
7	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	32.89	34.24	31.432	—
8	ChileCHLSouth America	31.84	36.44	28.289	Break in series
9	MontenegroMNESouthern Europe	31.28	32.62	30.169	—
10	GuyanaGUYSouth America	29.27	33.97	25.598	—
11	BrazilBRASouth America	28.38	34.11	23.757	—
12	New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia	28.01	30.64	25.684	—
13	ItalyITASouthern Europe	26.24	30.16	23.148	—
14	SpainESPSouthern Europe	25.89	30.91	21.356	—
15	Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe	25.76	31.35	21.779	Break in series
16	North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe	24.75	25.08	24.519	—
17	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	24.29	25.14	23.573	—
18	GreeceGRCSouthern Europe	24.16	29.78	19.463	—
19	GrenadaGRDCaribbean	23.97	29.20	19.398	—
20	JordanJORWestern Asia	23.81	33.17	21.777	—
21	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia	23.56	22.65	24.375	Break in series
22	UruguayURYSouth America	21.28	24.29	18.610	Break in series
23	SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	20.38	21.23	19.687	—
24	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia	19.15	17.84	19.962	—
25	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	19.03	21.10	17.075	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 16.06. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Women (%)

  HighestHonduras63.22

  LowestThailand2.82

  Middle country: 17.02

• Men (%)

  HighestSouth Africa42.278

  LowestMyanmar2.516

  Middle country: 13.940

• +4 / −21countries joined / left
• 65values changed, of 65 in both
• 56 · 9rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Afghanistan+ Grenada+ Mali+ Montserrat− United Arab Emirates− Bolivia− Barbados− Côte d’Ivoire− Cook Islands− Colombia− Guatemala− Kenya− Cambodia− Lebanon− Lesotho− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Mauritius− Nigeria− Panama− Senegal− Somalia− Tunisia− Vanuatu− Zimbabwe

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.

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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.

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