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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2023

2023, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2023 covers 79 countries on 3 measures. Eswatini is highest, at 49.965; Thailand is lowest, at 1.498. The middle country reads 12.563. Against 2022, 67 values changed (25 up, 42 down), 12 countries joined, 8 left.

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Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4) · Data for 2023

HighestEswatini

49.965

LowestThailand

1.498

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), 2023, 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), 2023: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa49.96553.4746.130—
2South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa44.28048.2740.709—
3KiribatiKIRMicronesia40.15743.9236.780—
4GambiaGMBWestern Africa35.97741.8729.018—
5RwandaRWAEastern Africa35.42341.0429.532—
6AngolaAGOMiddle Africa31.81932.7930.762—
7SenegalSENWestern Africa30.13945.0017.583—
8Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa25.40529.1921.493—
9HondurasHNDCentral America22.65033.0615.373—
10GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia22.46723.0621.904—
11GhanaGHAWestern Africa22.19724.9018.760—
12ChileCHLSouth America21.47424.3419.207—
13ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa20.96422.6119.306—
14MontenegroMNESouthern Europe20.75421.7419.918—
15SpainESPSouthern Europe20.68225.2116.552—
16JordanJORWestern Asia20.17328.8018.125—
17ZambiaZMBEastern Africa19.73721.8717.805—
18North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe18.70217.1219.840—
19UruguayURYSouth America18.41821.5515.748—
20FranceFRAWestern Europe17.90918.9316.931—
21BrazilBRASouth America17.71721.8514.377—
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.70017.7117.694—
23ItalyITASouthern Europe17.66921.9014.338—
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe17.04822.0812.929—
25SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.12517.1915.162—

02In 2023

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Eswatini49.965
  2. 2South Africa44.280
  3. 3Kiribati40.157
  4. 4Gambia35.977
  5. 5Rwanda35.423

Lowest

  1. 79Thailand1.498
  2. 78Vietnam3.556
  3. 77Czechia3.893
  4. 76Moldova4.117
  5. 75Poland5.135

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 12.563. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −8countries joined / left
  • 67values changed, of 67 in both
  • 25 · 42rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Burkina Faso+ Ghana+ Gambia+ Grenada+ Guatemala+ Indonesia+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Eswatini+ Seychelles+ Tonga− Costa Rica− Laos− Madagascar− Niue− Palestine− Sudan− Tuvalu− Samoa

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 2023.

  • 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.

  • 78 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) (2023). Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/labour-underutilisation/2023

0611 held

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07Questions

Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest labour underutilisation in Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2023?

Eswatini, at 49.965, of the 79 countries in the file.

What year does Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2023 cover?

79.

Where can I download Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4), 2023?

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), 2023 the newest?

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

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