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Labour Participation Rate, Male (As % of Male Population Aged 15+Years Old) (%), 2021
Labour | February 1, 2023
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Based on a comparison of 173 countries in 2021, Qatar ranked the highest in Labour Participation Rate, Male (As % of Male Population Aged 15+Years Old) with 95.5% followed by Zimbabwe and United Arab Emirates. On the other end of the scale was Moldova with 43.9%, Djibouti with 44.1% and Somalia with 47.0%.

Average Labour Participation Rate, Male (As % of Male Population Aged 15+Years Old) reached 71.7% in 2021 in the World. This is 2.23 % less than in the previous year and -5.16 % less than 10 years ago.

Historically, average Labour Participation Rate, Male (As % of Male Population Aged 15+Years Old) reached an all time high of 79.8% in 1990 and an all time low of 71.3% in 2020. The average annual growth amounted to -0.346 % since 1990.

Data for more countries are available at Labour Participation Rate, Male (As % of Male Population Aged 15+Years Old) indicator page.

Labour Participation Rate, Male (As % of Male Population Aged 15+Years Old) Unit 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Bahrain % 87.1% 86.8% 84.6% 84.3% 85.6%
Bolivia % 80.0% 82.0% 80.1% 84.6% 84.9%
Cambodia % 87.4% 88.0% 87.8% 85.8% 86.5%
Eritrea % 84.7% 84.2% 83.1% 83.5% 84.3%
Ethiopia % 82.4% 81.3% 79.6% 79.1% 78.8%
Kuwait % 87.3% 87.2% 82.1% 83.8% 88.4%
Madagascar % 88.0% 87.8% 87.0% 87.4% 87.6%
Niger % 84.9% 85.0% 84.2% 84.1% 84.6%
North Korea % 86.7% 86.7% 85.5% 85.4% 86.7%
Oman % 88.5% 88.5% 84.4% 84.9% 87.4%
Paraguay % 84.4% 84.6% 83.2% 84.1% 82.3%
Qatar % 95.7% 95.9% 95.9% 94.7% 95.4%
Tanzania % 87.6% 87.5% 84.9% 87.1% 87.4%
United Arab Emirates % 92.5% 91.7% 88.9% 90.2% 89.3%
Zimbabwe % 72.3% 71.9% 71.1% 71.7% 71.7%