Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, total (%) - 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 15-24 are generally considered the youth population.

Rank	Country	Value
Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, total (%) - Economic activity - Labor & Social Protection - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Uganda	75.40
2	Burkina Faso	74.20
3	Ethiopia	73.50
4	Burundi	73.20
5	Guinea	72.80
6	Madagascar	70.70
7	Tanzania	70
8	Angola	68.60
9	Cambodia	68.20
10	Iceland	67.10
11	Netherlands	66.80
12	Mozambique	65.70
13	Australia	64.10
14	Rwanda	64.10
15	Laos	63.60
16	Guinea-Bissau	63.10
17	Switzerland	63.10
18	Democratic Republic of the Congo	61.90
19	Equatorial Guinea	61.50
20	Denmark	61
21	Canada	60.60
22	Benin	58.90
23	Kenya	58.70
24	Central African Republic	58.10
25	Timor-Leste	58.10
26	Somalia	57.90
27	Paraguay	57.70
28	Least developed countries: UN classification	57.02
29	Liberia	56.70
30	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	56.43
31	New Zealand	56.30
32	Low income	56.14
33	Bangladesh	56
34	United Kingdom	55.80
35	Norway	55.70
36	China	54.50
37	Senegal	54.50
38	Gambia	54.50
39	Papua New Guinea	54.20
40	Eritrea	53.60
41	Burma	53.40
42	Austria	52.80
43	Togo	52.70
44	Brazil	52.60
45	Peru	52.50
46	Guatemala	51.60
47	Niger	51.60
48	East Asia & Pacific	51.37
49	Vietnam	51.10
50	United States	50.70
51	Solomon Islands	50.70
52	Chad	50.20
53	Zimbabwe	49.60
54	Bolivia	49.40
55	Malawi	49
56	Sub-Saharan Africa	48.78
57	Comoros	48.50
58	Nicaragua	48
59	Malta	47.20
60	Qatar	47.20
61	Haiti	47
62	Afghanistan	46.90
63	Zambia	46.40
64	Nepal	45.90
65	Trinidad and Tobago	45.70
66	United Arab Emirates	45.60
67	Republic of the Congo	45.60
68	Thailand	45.60
69	Bhutan	45.50
70	Latin America & Caribbean	45.33
71	Ivory Coast	45.30
72	Sweden	45.20
73	Low & middle income	44.86
74	High income: OECD	44.68
75	Malaysia	44.50
76	Ireland	44.40
77	Germany	44.30
78	Barbados	43.80
79	Pakistan	43.70
80	Finland	43.60
81	High income	43.47
82	Lower middle income	43.35
83	Costa Rica	43.10
84	Colombia	42.90
85	Honduras	42.80
86	Maldives	42.40
87	Brunei Darussalam	42.30
88	Middle income	42.26
89	Bahamas	42.20
90	Kazakhstan	42.10
91	South Asia	42.07
92	Sierra Leone	42
93	Belize	41.80
94	Mexico	41.60
95	Indonesia	40.80
96	Lesotho	40.40
97	Japan	40.40
98	Ghana	39.90
99	Ecuador	39.70
100	Fiji	39.70
101	India	39.60
102	Panama	39.50
103	Kyrgyzstan	39.50
104	Venezuela	39.50
105	Philippines	39.20
106	Uzbekistan	38.90
107	El Salvador	38.80
108	Azerbaijan	38.60
109	Uruguay	38.60
110	Cape Verde	38.10
111	Hong Kong	37.80
112	Upper middle income	37.78
113	Singapore	37.60
114	Tajikistan	37.50
115	Mauritius	37.30
116	Guyana	37
117	Spain	36.80
118	Euro area	36.62
119	Argentina	36.20
120	Iran	36.20
121	Macau	36.10
122	Albania	35.90
123	Cyprus	35.70
124	Sri Lanka	35.50
125	Latvia	35.10
126	Portugal	35.10
127	Morocco	34.70
128	Belarus	34.70
129	Mongolia	34.70
130	Mali	34.50
131	Ukraine	34.30
132	Turkmenistan	33.70
133	Dominican Republic	33.50
134	Cameroon	33.40
135	Gabon	33.10
136	Russia	32.70
137	Slovenia	32.30
138	Syria	32.30
139	Europe & Central Asia	32.16
140	Cuba	31.90
141	High income: nonOECD	30.76
142	Turkey	30.70
143	Algeria	30.60
144	Bahrain	30.30
145	Slovakia	30.20
146	Kuwait	30.20
147	Oman	29.40
148	France	29.30
149	Estonia	29.30
150	Jamaica	29.10
151	Czech Republic	28.80
152	Lebanon	28.70
153	Croatia	28.70
154	Middle East & North Africa	28.67
155	Puerto Rico	28.50
156	North Korea	27.70
157	South Korea	27.70
158	Greece	27.60
159	Libya	27.40
160	Belgium	27.20
161	Israel	27.10
162	Botswana	27.10
163	Poland	26.80
164	Bulgaria	26.50
165	Netherlands Antilles	26.20
166	Swaziland	25.50
167	Armenia	25.40
168	Italy	24.70
169	Saudi Arabia	24.70
170	Nigeria	24.20
171	Romania	24
172	Chile	23.70
173	Sudan	23.40
174	Mauritania	23.20
175	Iraq	23.20
176	Egypt	23.10
177	Luxembourg	22.70
178	Tunisia	22.30
179	Georgia	22
180	Yemen	21.90
181	Suriname	21.70
182	Serbia	21.07
183	Hungary	20.40
184	Jordan	19.80
185	Lithuania	18
186	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.60
187	Moldova	16.90
188	West Bank and Gaza	15.20
189	South Africa	14.60
190	Namibia	13.60
191	Macedonia	12.80

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