Labor force participation rate, male (% of male population ages 15-64) - Gender Statistics

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Labor force participation rate is the proportion of the population ages 15 and older that is economically active: all people who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period.

Rank	Country	Value
Labor force participation rate, male (% of male population ages 15-64) - Gender Statistics (2009)
1	Equatorial Guinea	93.80
2	Qatar	93.30
3	United Arab Emirates	92.80
4	Burkina Faso	91.40
5	Uganda	91.20
6	Tanzania	91.20
7	Ethiopia	90.90
8	Iceland	90.20
9	Guinea	89.90
10	Guatemala	89.70
11	Senegal	89.70
12	Madagascar	89.40
13	Angola	89.10
14	Vanuatu	89.10
15	Kenya	88.80
16	Burundi	88.10
17	Niger	88
18	Paraguay	87.80
19	Pakistan	87.60
20	Indonesia	87.40
21	Central African Republic	87.10
22	Democratic Republic of the Congo	87
23	Cambodia	86.90
24	Switzerland	86.90
25	Mozambique	86.60
26	Burma	86.50
27	Togo	86.40
28	Bahrain	86.30
29	Somalia	86.10
30	Rwanda	86
31	Comoros	85.90
32	Guinea-Bissau	85.60
33	Afghanistan	85.50
34	Low income	85.46
35	Bangladesh	85.20
36	Brazil	85.20
37	Least developed countries: UN classification	85.16
38	Gambia	85.10
39	Guyana	85.10
40	Timor-Leste	85
41	Barbados	85
42	Panama	85
43	Netherlands	84.90
44	China	84.90
45	New Zealand	84.90
46	South Asia	84.88
47	Thailand	84.80
48	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	84.79
49	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	84.72
50	Uruguay	84.60
51	India	84.60
52	Eritrea	84.60
53	East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)	84.43
54	Kuwait	84.30
55	Japan	84.30
56	Costa Rica	84.20
57	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	84.10
58	Mexico	83.90
59	Lower middle income	83.74
60	Morocco	83.70
61	Dominican Republic	83.70
62	Republic of the Congo	83.50
63	Denmark	83.40
64	Haiti	83.30
65	Venezuela	83.30
66	Belize	83.20
67	Canada	83.20
68	Low & middle income	83.11
69	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	83.07
70	Australia	83
71	Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)	82.95
72	Bolivia	82.90
73	Kyrgyzstan	82.90
74	Gabon	82.80
75	Trinidad and Tobago	82.80
76	Cape Verde	82.80
77	Algeria	82.80
78	Middle income	82.76
79	Bahamas	82.70
80	Armenia	82.60
81	Ivory Coast	82.60
82	Germany	82.30
83	United Kingdom	82.20
84	Spain	82.20
85	Botswana	82.10
86	Nepal	82
87	Cameroon	82
88	Sweden	82
89	Mauritania	82
90	Malaysia	81.90
91	Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)	81.78
92	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	81.77
93	Argentina	81.70
94	Honduras	81.70
95	Syria	81.70
96	Saudi Arabia	81.60
97	Libya	81.60
98	Singapore	81.60
99	High income: nonOECD	81.48
100	Ireland	81.40
101	Tajikistan	81
102	Austria	81
103	Macau	80.90
104	El Salvador	80.70
105	Laos	80.70
106	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	80.70
107	Vietnam	80.70
108	Norway	80.60
109	Nicaragua	80.60
110	Sri Lanka	80.50
111	Kazakhstan	80.50
112	St. Lucia	80.50
113	North America	80.42
114	Guam	80.40
115	Philippines	80.30
116	Mongolia	80.10
117	Fiji	80.10
118	United States	80.10
119	Djibouti	80
120	High income	79.87
121	Colombia	79.80
122	Mauritius	79.80
123	High income: OECD	79.75
124	OECD members	79.68
125	Cyprus	79.50
126	Ecuador	79.30
127	Zambia	79.30
128	Portugal	79.30
129	Arab World	79.25
130	Egypt	79.10
131	Oman	79.10
132	Upper middle income	78.97
133	Latvia	78.90
134	Euro area	78.84
135	Greece	78.80
136	Western Samoa	78.70
137	Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)	78.68
138	Maldives	78.60
139	Lesotho	78.50
140	Sao Tome and Principe	78.50
141	Hong Kong	78.40
142	Benin	78.20
143	Brunei Darussalam	78.20
144	Malta	78.10
145	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.10
146	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	78.07
147	Jamaica	78
148	Malawi	77.90
149	Estonia	77.90
150	Chile	77.90
151	Chad	77.80
152	European Union	77.76
153	Czech Republic	77.70
154	Georgia	77.60
155	Peru	77.60
156	Jordan	77.60
157	Turkmenistan	77.30
158	Finland	76.90
159	Slovakia	76.80
160	Liberia	76.80
161	Europe & Central Asia (all income levels)	76.60
162	Albania	76.50
163	New Caledonia	76.20
164	Tonga	76
165	Cuba	75.90
166	Swaziland	75.80
167	Iran	75.80
168	Ghana	75.80
169	Russia	75.60
170	Lebanon	75.50
171	South Korea	75.50
172	North Korea	75.50
173	Slovenia	75.40
174	Zimbabwe	75.40
175	France	75.10
176	Netherlands Antilles	75
177	Papua New Guinea	74.80
178	Nigeria	74.70
179	Italy	74.40
180	Yemen	74.40
181	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	74.37
182	Belarus	74.30
183	Uzbekistan	74
184	Sudan	74
185	Luxembourg	73.90
186	Tunisia	73.80
187	Macedonia	73.80
188	Bhutan	73.60
189	Turkey	73.50
190	Belgium	73.40
191	Bulgaria	72.60
192	Ukraine	72.10
193	Suriname	71.50
194	Azerbaijan	71.40
195	Lithuania	71.10
196	Croatia	71
197	Iraq	71
198	French Polynesia	70.60
199	West Bank and Gaza	70.60
200	Poland	69.70
201	Israel	68.70
202	Hungary	68.50
203	Romania	68.30
204	Mali	68.30
205	Sierra Leone	67.90
206	South Africa	66.60
207	Puerto Rico	66.30
208	Namibia	63.90
209	Moldova	57.10
210	Solomon Islands	51.90

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Labor force participation rate, male (% of male population ages 15-64) - Gender Statistics

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