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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2021

2021, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2021 covers 79 countries on 3 measures. Eswatini is highest, at 49.29; Moldova is lowest, at 2.34. The middle country reads 16.97. Against 2020, 63 values changed (22 up, 41 down), 16 countries joined, 6 left.

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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4) · Data for 2021

HighestEswatini

49.29

LowestMoldova

2.34

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2021, 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 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2021: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa49.2952.87945.045—
2South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa48.5053.08444.448—
3HondurasHNDCentral America46.4358.24635.068—
4RwandaRWAEastern Africa40.5146.28134.547—
5EthiopiaETHEastern Africa34.9938.64732.091—
6PalestinePSEWestern Asia34.2756.27127.715—
7AngolaAGOMiddle Africa32.7333.97731.384—
8MontenegroMNESouthern Europe31.1931.64330.814—
9GuyanaGUYSouth America30.9337.89625.754—
10IraqIRQWestern Asia30.1249.32026.319—
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia27.3327.87126.820—
12Costa RicaCRICentral America27.0834.48721.689—
13BrazilBRASouth America27.0033.64521.566—
14ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa26.0727.51924.607—
15SpainESPSouthern Europe25.4630.60120.798—
16ChileCHLSouth America24.1727.74021.492—
17JordanJORWestern Asia24.0833.45422.075—
18North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe23.8424.14523.633—
19KenyaKENEastern Africa23.4328.15818.669—
20GreeceGRCSouthern Europe23.2729.31218.304—
21ItalyITASouthern Europe22.5527.13018.925—
22Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia21.9625.89619.072—
23AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe21.2523.09919.706—
24ColombiaCOLSouth America21.2127.65516.576—
25UruguayURYSouth America20.9324.14718.075Break in series

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Eswatini49.29
  2. 2South Africa48.50
  3. 3Honduras46.43
  4. 4Rwanda40.51
  5. 5Ethiopia34.99

Lowest

  1. 79Moldova2.34
  2. 78Thailand3.49
  3. 77Czechia4.02
  4. 76Vietnam5.85
  5. 75Poland6.05

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 16.97. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +16 / −6countries joined / left
  • 63values changed, of 63 in both
  • 22 · 41rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bolivia+ Barbados+ Colombia+ Comoros+ Ethiopia+ Guatemala+ Iraq+ Kenya+ Pakistan+ Panama+ Singapore+ Eswatini+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Uganda+ Zimbabwe− Mali− Myanmar− Montserrat− New Caledonia− Serbia− Seychelles

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 2021.

  • 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 worse result.

  • 72 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

  • Some readings carry a flag

    ILO marks readings it considers estimates or provisional. The flags in this file: Break in series.

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) (2021). Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/labour-underutilisation/2021

0611 held

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07Questions

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest labour underutilisation in Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2021?

Eswatini, at 49.29, of the 79 countries in the file.

What year does Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2021 cover?

79.

Where can I download Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2021?

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

Is Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2021 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2024.

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