Employment to population ratio, 15+, male (%) - Economic activity - Labor & Social Protection - World Development Indicators

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Employment to population ratio is the proportion of a country's population that is employed. Ages 15 and older are generally considered the working-age population.

Rank	Country	Value
Employment to population ratio, 15+, male (%) - Economic activity - Labor & Social Protection - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	United Arab Emirates	91.30
2	Ethiopia	88.30
3	Uganda	87.80
4	Burkina Faso	87.30
5	Madagascar	86.90
6	Qatar	86.30
7	Equatorial Guinea	85.80
8	Guinea	85.30
9	Benin	85
10	Guinea-Bissau	84.50
11	Burundi	84.30
12	Democratic Republic of the Congo	83.30
13	Afghanistan	83
14	Burma	83
15	Angola	82.80
16	Guatemala	82.80
17	Niger	82.60
18	Somalia	82.40
19	Nicaragua	82
20	Central African Republic	81.90
21	Bangladesh	81.60
22	Pakistan	81.30
23	Ivory Coast	81.20
24	Togo	81.10
25	Bahrain	80.80
26	Cambodia	80.60
27	Paraguay	80.50
28	Tanzania	80.30
29	Eritrea	80.10
30	Indonesia	80
31	Least developed countries: UN classification	79.65
32	Rwanda	79.50
33	Bolivia	79.50
34	Kuwait	79.50
35	Liberia	79.40
36	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	79.05
37	Timor-Leste	79
38	Honduras	78.80
39	Thailand	78.80
40	Kenya	78.70
41	Comoros	78.50
42	Laos	78.20
43	Low income	78.19
44	South Asia	78.08
45	Gambia	78
46	India	77.40
47	Malaysia	77.40
48	Solomon Islands	77.30
49	Haiti	77.20
50	Peru	77.10
51	Bhutan	77
52	Republic of the Congo	76.80
53	Mexico	76.20
54	Senegal	76.10
55	Brazil	75.80
56	Iceland	75.80
57	Fiji	75.70
58	Saudi Arabia	75.60
59	Venezuela	75.60
60	East Asia & Pacific	75.50
61	Malawi	75.10
62	Lower middle income	75.03
63	Costa Rica	74.90
64	Belize	74.80
65	Panama	74.70
66	China	74.60
67	Latin America & Caribbean	74.56
68	Ecuador	74.50
69	Low & middle income	74.28
70	Philippines	74.20
71	Sub-Saharan Africa	74.15
72	Vietnam	73.80
73	Middle income	73.60
74	Guyana	73.40
75	Zimbabwe	73.30
76	Trinidad and Tobago	73.10
77	Barbados	72.60
78	Syria	72.50
79	Singapore	72.40
80	Chad	72.30
81	Mozambique	72.30
82	Mauritius	72.20
83	Papua New Guinea	72
84	Bahamas	71.90
85	Morocco	71.90
86	Libya	71.90
87	Maldives	71.40
88	Oman	71.40
89	Sri Lanka	71.20
90	Colombia	71.20
91	Macau	70.90
92	Lebanon	70.90
93	High income: nonOECD	70.78
94	Brunei Darussalam	70.70
95	Argentina	70.30
96	Kazakhstan	70.30
97	New Zealand	69.90
98	South Korea	69.50
99	North Korea	69.50
100	Kyrgyzstan	69.40
101	Cape Verde	69.40
102	Switzerland	69.40
103	Uruguay	69.30
104	Iran	69.10
105	Cameroon	69
106	Zambia	68.70
107	Nepal	68.70
108	El Salvador	68.40
109	Jamaica	68.40
110	Upper middle income	67.94
111	Egypt	67.20
112	Norway	67.10
113	Middle East & North Africa	67.03
114	Netherlands	66.90
115	Algeria	66.60
116	Australia	66.50
117	Sudan	66.50
118	Nigeria	66.50
119	Japan	66.40
120	Canada	66.40
121	Ireland	66.20
122	Cuba	66.20
123	Denmark	66.10
124	Ghana	66.10
125	Cyprus	66.10
126	United States	66
127	Chile	65.20
128	Dominican Republic	64.80
129	Azerbaijan	64.50
130	Gabon	64.40
131	Hong Kong	64.20
132	Sierra Leone	64.20
133	High income	63.80
134	Czech Republic	63.70
135	Russia	63.50
136	Portugal	63.50
137	High income: OECD	63.27
138	Turkmenistan	63.20
139	Latvia	63.20
140	United Kingdom	63.10
141	Turkey	63
142	Uzbekistan	62.70
143	Georgia	62.70
144	Sweden	62.60
145	Austria	62.50
146	Iraq	61.90
147	Slovakia	61.90
148	Malta	61.70
149	Slovenia	61.60
150	Lesotho	61.60
151	Jordan	61.20
152	Europe & Central Asia	61.14
153	Tunisia	60.90
154	Suriname	60.80
155	Estonia	60.60
156	Tajikistan	60.40
157	Ukraine	60
158	Greece	59.90
159	Mali	59.90
160	Luxembourg	59.80
161	Finland	59.50
162	Netherlands Antilles	59.30
163	Germany	59.30
164	Albania	59
165	Spain	59
166	Belarus	58.80
167	Euro area	58.16
168	Yemen	57.50
169	Poland	56.10
170	Lithuania	56
171	Israel	55.80
172	Italy	54.90
173	Croatia	54.80
174	Swaziland	54.80
175	France	54.40
176	Romania	54.30
177	Belgium	53.90
178	Botswana	53.60
179	Hungary	53
180	Mongolia	52.70
181	Bulgaria	52.20
182	Mauritania	51.90
183	Puerto Rico	49
184	Namibia	48.50
185	West Bank and Gaza	48.40
186	South Africa	48.10
187	Bosnia and Herzegovina	48
188	Moldova	45.80
189	Armenia	45.60
190	Macedonia	43.30

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