List of countries by employment rate
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This is a list of countries by employment rate (the proportion of working age adults employed, here with working age between 15 and 64 years old). The information is based on data from the OECD as at 2003, [1]. It currently only includes OECD member countries and can be expanded as new data (with sources) is found. See also : [2] for 2005 data. Employment data for the European Union countries can be retrieved from Eurostat [3].
Due to different methods for calculating the unemployment rate, the employment rate can be used as a supplemental method of comparison.
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| Rank by sovereign state |
Rank by entity |
Entity | Employment rate (%) |
Source / date of information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | World | ||
| 1 | 1 |  Switzerland |
78.6 | 2010 OECD [4]. |
| 2 | 2 |  Iceland |
78.2 | 2010 OECD [5]. |
| 3 | 3 |  Norway |
75.3 | 2010 OECD [6]. |
| 4 | 4 |  Netherlands |
74.7 | 2010 OECD [7]. |
| 5 | 5 |  Denmark |
73.4 | 2010 OECD [8]. |
| 6 | 6 |  New Zealand |
73.3 | 2010 OECD [9]. |
| 7 | 7 |  Sweden |
72.7 | 2010 OECD [10]. |
| 8 | 8 |  Australia |
72.4 | 2010 OECD [11]. |
| 9 | 9 |  Austria |
71.7 | 2010 OECD [12]. |
| 10 | 10 |  Canada |
71.5 | 2010 OECD [13]. |
| 12 | 11 |  Germany |
71.1 | 2010 OECD [14]. |
| 11 | 11 |  Japan |
71.1 | 2010 OECD [15]. |
| 12 | 12 |  United Kingdom |
69.5 | 2010 OECD [16]. |
| 15 | 15 |  Finland |
68.1 | 2010 OECD [17]. |
| 13 | 13 |  Russia |
67.4 | 2010 OECD [18]. |
| 16 | 16 |  United States |
66.7 | 2010 OECD [19]. |
| 17 | 17 |  Slovenia |
66.2 | 2010 OECD [20]. |
| 18 | 18 |  Portugal |
65.2 | 2010 OECD [21]. |
| 19 | 19 |  Luxembourg |
65.2 | 2010 OECD [22]. |
| 20 | 20 |  Czech Republic |
65.0 | 2010 OECD [23]. |
| — | 21 | OECD Average | 64.6 | 2010 OECD [24]. |
| 21 | 22 |  France |
64.0 | 2010 OECD [25]. |
| 23 | 22 |  South Korea |
63.3 | 2010 OECD [26]. |
| 23 | 24 |  Belgium |
62.0 | 2010 OECD [27]. |
| 24 | 25 |  Estonia |
61.0 | 2010 OECD [28]. |
| 28 | 29 |  Mexico |
60.4 | 2010 OECD [29]. |
| 26 | 27 |  Israel |
60.2 | 2010 OECD [30]. |
| 25 | 26 |  Ireland |
60.0 | 2010 OECD [31]. |
| 27 | 28 |  Greece |
59.6 | 2010 OECD [32]. |
| 33 | 34 |  Chile |
59.3 | 2010 OECD [33]. |
| 29 | 30 |  Poland |
59.3 | 2010 OECD [34]. |
| 30 | 31 |  Slovakia |
58.8 | 2010 OECD [35]. |
| 31 | 32 |  Spain |
58.6 | 2010 OECD [36]. |
| 32 | 33 |  Italy |
56.9 | 2010 OECD [37]. |
| 34 | 35 |  Hungary |
55.4 | 2010 OECD [38]. |
| 35 | 36 |  Turkey |
46.6 | 2010 OECD [39]. |
| 36 | 37 |  India |
38.4 | 2007 Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12) [40]. |
