Labor force participation rate, total (% ages 15+, natl. est.)
Labor force participation rate for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India): the proportion of the population ages 15 and older that is economically active - employed or unemployed and seeking work - in percent of the total population ages 15+ (national estimate). The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the ILO Labour Force Statistics database (ILOSTAT), accessed 2026-06-22; WDI vintage last updated 2026-07-13. It pairs with the connector's employment-to-population-ratio dataset: participation times (1 - unemployment rate) approximates the employment ratio, and the gap between the two series is the unemployment share of the 15+ population. Canada leads the panel every fixture year (65.79% in 2023) and India is lowest (55.75% in 2023); China's 2021-2023 cells are null upstream (genuine reporting gap, kept verbatim, never interpolated). Caveat: national-estimate methodology means labor-force definitions differ by country. Units: % of total population ages 15+.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 28, 2026
- Theme
- labor
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: % of total population ages 15+) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| country_code | country_name | year | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | Canada | 2,000 | 65.762 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,001 | 65.907 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,002 | 66.862 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,003 | 67.561 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,004 | 67.487 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,005 | 67.142 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,006 | 67.192 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,007 | 67.46 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,008 | 67.596 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,009 | 67.275 |
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/labor_force_participation_rate_total" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/labor_force_participation_rate_total").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
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for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
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@misc{dz_world_bank_labor_force_participation_rat_de685402,
title = {{Labor force participation rate, total (\% ages 15+, natl. est.)}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/labor_force_participation_rate_total?snapshot=20260928T093111Z-de6854024ec2}},
note = {Snapshot 20260928T093111Z-de6854024ec2, sha256 de6854024ec29d6d47c15b2a6d2ee0a6794b9893ec1138abc4257d700f79399f; accessed 2026-09-28}
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