Trade Union Density

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: union-density-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Trade Union Density: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2020	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	—	139	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	139	0
Reference yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	13	0
Employees who are trade union members (%)union_densityHeadline	The headline figure: Employees who are trade union members (%).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.200Venezuela91.423Icelandmiddle 16.680	139	0
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlag	ILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure.	Text	—	0	139

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 better result.

One edition, covering 139 countries.

Not in this dataset · 85 places this site covers

ILO gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAzerbaijanBahamasBahrainBarbadosBelarusBeninBhutanBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCayman IslandsChadChannel IslandsCook IslandsDjiboutiDominicaEcuadorEquatorial GuineaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGabonGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuineaGuinea-BissauIranIraqIsle of ManJamaicaJordanKiribatiKosovoKuwaitKyrgyzstanLebanonLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMaldivesMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPalauPapua New GuineaPuerto RicoQatarRepublic of the CongoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSaudi ArabiaSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomalilandSouth SudanSurinameTajikistanTimor-LesteTongaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsUzbekistanVanuatuVatican CityYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   International Labour Organization (ILO)

   ilostat.ilo.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Trade Union Density 2020

   Read from the publisher’s own service.

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 10, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: union-density-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/union-density

Read from ILOSTAT directly (ILR_TUMT_NOC_RT), one reading per country because no single year covers enough of them.

• Charted

  Trade Union Density by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Work & Labour
  • Governance & Institutions

• Near neighbours

  • Employment-to-Population RatioILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
  • Unemployment RateILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
  • Vulnerable EmploymentILO · 35 held · 1991–2025