List of countries by employment rate



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 largely on data from the OECD as at 2013 and can be expanded as new data (with sources) is found. Employment data for the European Union countries can be retrieved from Eurostat [1].

Due to different methods for calculating the unemployment rate, the employment rate can be used as a supplemental method of comparison.

List
Rank by sovereign state

Rank by entity

Entity

Employment rate (%)

Source / date of information

1 1 Iceland 82.2 2014 OECD [2]. 2 2  Switzerland 79.8 2014 OECD [3]. 3 3 Norway 75.3 2014 OECD [4]. 4 4 Estonia (repeated) 75.2 2010 OECD [5]. 5 5 Sweden 74.9 2014 OECD [6]. 7 7 United Kingdom 74.5 2016 ONS [7]. 6 6 New Zealand 74.2 2014 OECD [8]. 8 8 Germany 73.8 2014 OECD [9]. 9 9 Netherlands 73.1 2014 OECD [10]. 10 10 Denmark 72.8 2014 OECD [11]. 11 11 Japan 72.7 2014 OECD [12]. 12 12 Canada 72.3 2014 OECD [13]. 13 13 Australia 71.6 2014 OECD [14]. 14 14 Austria 71.1 2014 OECD [15]. 15 15 Estonia (repeated) 69.6 2014 OECD [16]. 16 16 Russia 69.3 2014 OECD [17]. 17 17 Czech Republic 69.0 2014 OECD [18]. 18 18 Finland 68.9 2014 OECD [19]. 19 19 United States 68.1 2014 OECD [20]. 20 20 Israel 67.9 2014 OECD [21]. 21 21 Colombia 67.1 2014 OECD [22]. 22 22 Brazil 66.7 2013 OECD [23]. 23 23 Luxembourg 66.6 2014 OECD [24]. 24 24 Latvia 66.3 2014 OECD [25]. 25 25 South Korea 65.9 2015 Statistics Korea [26]. — 26 OECD Average 65.8 2014 OECD [27]. 26 27 Lithuania 65.7 2014 OECD [28]. 27 28 France 64.2 2014 OECD [29]. 28 29 Slovenia 63.9 2014 OECD [30]. 29 30 Portugal 62.6 2014 OECD [31]. 30 31 Chile 62.2 2014 OECD [32]. 31 32 Belgium 61.9 2014 OECD [33]. 32 33 Hungary 61.8 2014 OECD [34]. 33 34 India 61.7 2014 OECD [35]. 34 35 Poland 61.7 2014 OECD [36]. 35 36 Costa Rica 61.7 2014 OECD [37]. 36 37 Ireland 61.3 2014 OECD [38]. 37 38 Slovakia 61.0 2014 OECD [39]. 38 39 Mexico 60.4 2014 OECD [40]. 39 40 Spain 56.8 2014 OECD [41]. 40 41 Italy 56.5 2014 OECD [42]. 41 42 Turkey 49.5 2014 OECD [43].