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ILO modelled estimates: labour force participation rate by sex (annual)

Labour force participation rate for ages 15 and over by sex, annual, for ~190 countries. ILO modelled estimates (ILOEST), vintage Nov. 2025 — dataflow DF_EAP_2WAP_SEX_AGE_RT.

Source: ILO ILOSTAT
Category: economy
Tags: employmentlabourilomodelled-estimates
Rows: 31,392
Date range: 1990-01-01 – 2027-01-01 (date)
Last refresh: 2026-09-21T17:39:07+00:00 (cadence: yearly)
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date	series_id	series_label	value
1990-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	15.739
1991-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	15.695
1992-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	15.618
1993-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	15.506
1994-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	15.358
1995-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	15.194
1996-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	15.015
1997-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.819
1998-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.625
1999-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.443
2000-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.294
2001-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.196
2002-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.152
2003-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.154
2004-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.205
2005-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.302
2006-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.452
2007-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.67
2008-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.944
2009-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	15.248
2010-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	15.572
2011-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	15.893
2012-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	16.208
2013-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	17.138
2014-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	18.107
2015-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	19.113
2016-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	20.156
2017-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	21.24
2018-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	19.805
2019-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	18.298
2020-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	16.474
2021-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	14.616
2022-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	5.159
2023-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	5.145
2024-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	5.123
2025-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	5.086
2026-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	5.056
2027-01-01	AFG.SEX_F	Afghanistan — Female	5.012
1990-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	80
1991-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	80.002
1992-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	80.025
1993-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	80
1994-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.96
1995-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.936
1996-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.913
1997-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.91
1998-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.932
1999-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.952
2000-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.943
2001-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.906
2002-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.834
2003-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.737
2004-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.622
2005-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.495
2006-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.35
2007-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	79.173
2008-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	78.957
2009-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	78.714
2010-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	78.458
2011-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	78.209
2012-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	77.975
2013-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	77.116
2014-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	76.226
2015-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	75.308
2016-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	74.361
2017-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	73.401
2018-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	71.37
2019-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	69.386
2020-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	66.75
2021-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	66.843
2022-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	70.225
2023-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	70.074
2024-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	69.954
2025-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	69.76
2026-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	69.584
2027-01-01	AFG.SEX_M	Afghanistan — Male	69.374
1990-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	47.186
1991-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	47.14
1992-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	47.087
1993-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	47.024
1994-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.95
1995-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.876
1996-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.803
1997-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.732
1998-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.667
1999-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.609
2000-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.562
2001-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.526
2002-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.505
2003-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.497
2004-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.506
2005-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.532
2006-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.571
2007-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.622
2008-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.682
2009-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.746
2010-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.815
2011-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.884
2012-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	46.956
2013-01-01	AFG.SEX_T	Afghanistan — Total	47.026

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Fields

Name	Type	Description	Unit / format	Nullable	Example values
`date`	date	Observation year from the ILO SDMX TIME_PERIOD dimension (annual frequency, FREQ=A), stored as January 1 of that year.	Not documented by source	No	1990-01-01, 1991-01-01, 1992-01-01
`series_id`	varchar	ILOSTAT dimension codes from the SDMX response as REF_AREA.SEX, e.g. 'USA.SEX_T' (United States of America, Total). REF_AREA codes are ISO alpha-3 country codes; SEX is the ILO codelist CL_SEX.	Not documented by source	No	AFG.SEX_F, AFG.SEX_F, AFG.SEX_F
`series_label`	varchar	Country name from the ILO codelist CL_AREA and sex label from the ILO codelist CL_SEX, joined as 'Country — Sex', e.g. 'United States of America — Total'.	Not documented by source	No	Afghanistan — Female, Afghanistan — Female, Afghanistan — Female
`value`	double	OBS_VALUE from the ILO SDMX response for DF_EAP_2WAP_SEX_AGE_RT, age band 15+. Unit of measure reported by the ILO as PT (percent) — a rate in percent.	percent	No	15.739, 15.695, 15.618

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Provider: ILO ILOSTAT
The International Labour Organization's ILOSTAT database publishes official labour statistics — employment, unemployment, labour force participation and more — through a free keyless SDMX REST API.
Provider site: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/
Source data URL: https://sdmx.ilo.org/rest/data/DF_EAP_2WAP_SEX_AGE_RT
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