Inactivity rate (ILO modelled estimates) (15+) by country

Name: Inactivity rate (ILO modelled estimates) (15+)
Creator: International Labour Organization
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Countries reporting

188

Highest

76.73

Sao Tome and Principe

Lowest

13.34

Qatar

Median

38.93

Years covered

1990–2027

Data points

10,464

What the numbers show

Inactivity rate (ILO modelled estimates) (15+) is currently reported for 188 countries. The highest value is 76.73 in Sao Tome and Principe; the lowest is 13.34 in Qatar.

The median across all reporting countries is 38.93, and the mean is 39.77.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6.

Over the past decade 120 countries rose and 68 fell. The largest increase was in Burkina Faso (up 37.6%), and the largest decrease in Bolivia, Plurinational State of (down 33.2%).

Inactivity rate (ILO modelled estimates): full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Sao Tome and Principe	76.73	2027	up 0.8%	flat
2	Djibouti	68.3	2027	up 0.8%	rising
3	Yemen	67.03	2027	down 0.7%	rising
4	Somalia	66.25	2027	up 0.5%	flat
5	Syrian Arab Republic	63.26	2027	up 1.6%	rising
6	Afghanistan	62.73	2027	up 19.0%	rising
7	Sudan	62.48	2022	up 19.8%	rising
8	Tajikistan	61.85	2027	up 1.2%	rising
9	Nepal	60.86	2027	up 1.3%	flat
10	Algeria	59.99	2027	up 4.0%	rising
11	Jordan	59.89	2027	up 0.2%	flat
12	Iran, Islamic Republic of	59.66	2027	up 7.0%	rising
13	Mauritania	59.43	2027	up 0.9%	rising
14	Samoa	58.52	2027	up 28.4%	rising
15	Iraq	58.47	2027	up 0.6%	flat
16	Turkmenistan	58.19	2027	up 2.3%	rising
17	Puerto Rico	56.97	2027	down 7.8%	rising
18	Lebanon	56.58	2023	up 5.0%	flat
19	Morocco	56.35	2027	up 3.4%	rising
20	Egypt	55.47	2027	up 0.8%	rising
21	Tunisia	55.33	2027	up 5.4%	rising
22	Palestine, State of	55.01	2022	down 5.7%	falling
23	Libya	52.7	2027	up 4.0%	falling
24	Gambia	52.64	2027	up 0.8%	flat
25	Sri Lanka	51.61	2027	up 12.2%	rising
26	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.53	2027	up 1.9%	rising
27	Italy	51.37	2027	up 1.7%	flat
28	Tonga	50.78	2027	up 11.2%	rising
29	Gabon	49.48	2027	up 1.1%	falling
30	Eswatini	48.83	2027	down 0.7%	rising
31	Romania	48.83	2027	up 1.4%	flat
32	Cuba	48.74	2027	up 9.7%	flat
33	Greece	48.64	2027	down 0.7%	flat
34	North Macedonia	48.59	2027	up 3.7%	rising
35	French Polynesia	48.47	2027	up 9.7%	rising
36	Croatia	48.36	2027	down 0.5%	rising
37	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	48.35	2027	up 20.6%	rising
38	Papua New Guinea	47.79	2027	down 3.6%	falling
39	Senegal	47.78	2027	down 11.5%	flat
40	Pakistan	47.63	2027	down 2.1%	falling
41	Guinea	47.63	2027	up 4.2%	rising
42	Sierra Leone	46.95	2027	up 3.6%	rising
43	Belgium	46.32	2027	down 0.7%	falling
44	Suriname	46.19	2027	up 5.3%	falling
45	United States Virgin Islands	45.81	2027	up 12.1%	rising
46	Türkiye	45.37	2027	down 3.8%	flat
47	Ukraine	45.36	2021	up 3.7%	rising
48	France	45.24	2027	up 1.1%	flat
49	Guyana	45.23	2027	up 1.9%	rising
50	Myanmar	45	2027	up 18.5%	rising
51	Hong Kong, China	44.87	2027	up 13.5%	rising
52	South Africa	44.41	2027	down 0.5%	rising
53	New Caledonia	44.35	2027	up 11.4%	rising
54	Bulgaria	44.3	2027	down 0.7%	falling
55	India	44.27	2027	down 6.5%	rising
56	Comoros	43.67	2027	down 13.9%	falling
57	Spain	43.52	2027	up 3.7%	falling
58	Honduras	43.52	2027	up 22.1%	rising
59	Lesotho	43.36	2027	up 9.1%	rising
59	Slovenia	43.36	2027	up 4.6%	flat
61	Trinidad and Tobago	43.09	2027	up 12.1%	rising
62	Western Sahara	43.06	2027	up 3.4%	falling
63	Uzbekistan	42.99	2027	down 1.2%	flat
64	Cape Verde	42.99	2027	up 5.3%	rising
65	Fiji	42.94	2027	up 0.9%	rising
66	Kyrgyzstan	42.82	2027	down 0.7%	rising
67	Montenegro	42.52	2027	down 10.2%	falling
68	Portugal	42.51	2027	up 3.4%	rising
69	Costa Rica	42.38	2027	up 5.5%	falling
70	Poland	42.36	2027	down 0.2%	flat
71	Ghana	42.27	2027	up 27.5%	rising
72	Vanuatu	42.23	2027	up 5.3%	rising
73	Togo	42.23	2027	up 0.7%	flat
74	Mauritius	41.73	2027	up 4.0%	rising
75	Armenia	41.68	2027	up 8.1%	rising
76	Mongolia	41.66	2027	up 2.0%	falling
77	Bangladesh	41.36	2027	down 0.7%	falling
78	Namibia	41.24	2027	up 2.3%	falling
79	Belize	40.95	2027	up 13.9%	falling
80	Serbia	40.9	2027	down 11.9%	flat
81	Chad	40.8	2027	up 3.3%	rising
82	Austria	40.74	2027	up 3.6%	falling
83	Finland	40.72	2027	down 1.5%	rising
84	Taiwan, China	40.66	2027	down 1.2%	flat
85	Guatemala	40.52	2027	up 3.8%	rising
86	Slovakia	40.43	2027	up 0.8%	rising
87	Equatorial Guinea	40.25	2027	up 4.0%	flat
88	Russian Federation	40.22	2027	up 7.3%	flat
89	Germany	40.22	2027	up 2.2%	falling
90	Czechia	40.16	2027	up 0.6%	flat
91	Latvia	40.11	2027	up 2.3%	flat
92	Hungary	39.51	2027	down 6.3%	falling
93	Luxembourg	39.21	2027	down 5.0%	falling
94	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	39.09	2027	up 4.0%	flat
95	United States of America	38.76	2027	up 3.5%	rising
96	Philippines	38.73	2027	down 5.2%	flat
97	Mexico	38.46	2027	down 3.4%	falling
98	Belarus	38.35	2027	up 8.0%	falling
99	Zambia	38.04	2027	down 8.2%	flat
100	Argentina	38.02	2027	down 7.7%	flat
101	Malawi	37.94	2027	up 3.9%	rising
102	Azerbaijan	37.9	2027	up 8.4%	rising
103	Guam	37.73	2027	up 0.2%	rising
104	Chile	37.68	2027	up 1.7%	falling
105	Lithuania	37.66	2027	down 4.4%	flat
106	El Salvador	37.64	2027	down 8.2%	flat
107	Brazil	37.31	2027	up 5.2%	rising
108	Colombia	36.8	2027	up 8.3%	rising
109	Malta	36.56	2027	down 13.7%	falling
110	Brunei Darussalam	36.44	2027	up 4.7%	rising
111	Japan	36.34	2027	down 8.1%	flat
112	China	36.23	2027	up 14.5%	rising
113	Haiti	36.14	2027	up 6.0%	flat
114	Republic of Korea	36.09	2027	down 2.7%	falling
115	Rwanda	36.08	2027	down 8.7%	flat
116	Maldives	36.08	2027	down 11.6%	falling
117	Canada	35.99	2027	up 5.2%	flat
118	Barbados	35.91	2027	up 6.1%	rising
119	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	35.87	2027	up 1.8%	rising
120	Georgia	35.75	2027	up 4.6%	rising
121	Sweden	35.73	2027	up 0.4%	flat
122	Ecuador	35.57	2027	up 11.7%	flat
123	Ireland	35.55	2027	down 6.7%	falling
124	Estonia	35.47	2027	down 3.5%	falling
125	Denmark	35.4	2027	down 7.3%	rising
126	Albania	35.38	2027	down 15.6%	rising
127	Cameroon	35.37	2027	up 15.2%	rising
128	Bhutan	35.31	2027	down 5.1%	rising
129	Guinea-Bissau	35.1	2027	down 5.1%	flat
130	Saudi Arabia	35.08	2027	down 14.5%	falling
131	Uruguay	35.05	2027	down 2.3%	falling
132	Norway	34.92	2027	up 1.7%	falling
133	Dominican Republic	34.88	2027	down 7.3%	falling
134	Israel	34.52	2027	up 0.0%	falling
135	Thailand	34.17	2027	up 5.2%	rising
136	Switzerland	34.07	2027	up 8.3%	falling
137	Malaysia	33.92	2027	down 2.5%	falling
138	Australia	33.91	2027	down 2.4%	falling
139	Nicaragua	33.88	2027	down 2.3%	falling
140	Panama	33.83	2027	down 0.9%	falling
141	Lao People's Democratic Republic	33.8	2027	down 16.0%	falling
142	Cyprus	33.58	2027	down 5.7%	falling
143	Netherlands	33.29	2027	down 1.7%	flat
144	Mali	33.19	2027	up 7.6%	rising
145	Macau, China	33.18	2027	up 10.1%	falling
146	Côte d'Ivoire	32.95	2027	down 2.7%	flat
147	Kenya	32.68	2027	up 18.0%	rising
148	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	32.55	2027	down 1.0%	falling
149	Timor-Leste	32.47	2027	down 1.4%	rising
150	Zimbabwe	32.31	2027	down 5.0%	flat
151	Kazakhstan	32.24	2027	up 8.3%	rising
152	Congo	32.22	2027	up 1.2%	flat
153	Indonesia	31.99	2027	down 3.9%	flat
154	Oman	31.76	2027	up 8.4%	falling
155	Saint Lucia	31.7	2027	up 3.5%	falling
156	Ethiopia	31.52	2027	up 24.9%	rising
157	Botswana	30.74	2027	down 17.4%	falling
158	Jamaica	30.3	2027	down 11.7%	rising
159	New Zealand	30.1	2027	up 2.0%	falling
160	Burkina Faso	30.1	2027	up 37.6%	rising
161	Bahrain	29.9	2027	up 8.3%	falling
162	Paraguay	29.8	2027	up 2.9%	flat
163	Singapore	29.52	2027	down 4.9%	falling
164	Viet Nam	28.05	2027	up 23.0%	rising
165	Republic of Moldova	27.51	2027	down 13.1%	falling
166	Peru	27.08	2027	up 17.7%	falling
167	Kuwait	26.92	2027	up 1.1%	falling
168	Bahamas	26.75	2027	up 3.5%	flat
169	Central African Republic	26.68	2027	up 0.4%	flat
170	South Sudan	26.59	2023	up 0.5%	flat
171	Iceland	25.51	2027	up 10.4%	flat
172	Angola	25.37	2027	up 4.0%	rising
173	Benin	23.53	2027	down 8.4%	falling
174	Liberia	23.47	2027	up 1.7%	flat
175	Burundi	22.11	2027	up 11.1%	rising
176	Eritrea	21.57	2027	up 2.7%	rising
177	Mozambique	21.41	2027	up 1.9%	rising
178	United Arab Emirates	21.26	2027	up 0.1%	falling
179	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	20.96	2027	down 33.2%	falling
180	Niger	20	2027	down 26.2%	rising
181	Uganda	19.82	2027	down 29.8%	falling
182	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	17.87	2027	down 0.2%	flat
183	Cambodia	17.59	2027	down 5.4%	falling
184	Nigeria	17.57	2027	down 8.0%	rising
185	Tanzania, United Republic of	16.34	2027	up 1.3%	rising
186	Solomon Islands	15.69	2027	up 0.1%	falling
187	Madagascar	14.45	2027	up 0.7%	rising
188	Qatar	13.34	2027	up 6.7%	falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

Arab States: Low income 65.41
Chagai 44.39
Southern Asia: Upper-middle income 59.52
Northern Africa: Upper-middle income 58.97
Arab States: Lower-middle income 57.91
Northern Africa 57.34
Northern Africa: Lower-middle income 55.62
MENA 55.48
Arab League 54.99
Arab States 50.75
Africa: Upper-middle income 50.26
Southern Europe 46.99
Europe and Central Asia: Lower-middle income 46.51
Central and Western Asia: Lower-middle income 46.51
Southern Asia 45.73
Southern Asia: Lower-middle income 44.73
Sub-Saharan Africa: Upper-middle income 43.97
Central Asia 43.92
Southern Africa 43.89
Eastern Europe: Upper-middle income 43.66
Central and Western Asia 43.54
Asia and the Pacific: Lower-middle income 43.4
European Union 27 43.35
Europe and Central Asia: Upper-middle income 43.3
Western Asia 43.29
Central and Western Asia: Upper-middle income 43.17
Northern, Southern and Western Europe: Upper-middle income 43.14
European Union 28 42.79
Asia and the Pacific: Low income 42.72
Northern, Southern and Western Europe 42.47
Europe and Central Asia 42.47
Northern, Southern and Western Europe: High income 42.45
Europe and Central Asia: High income 41.97
Eastern Europe 41.79
Western Europe 41.37
Eastern Europe: High income 41.37
World: Lower-middle income 41.27
Caribbean 40.79
World: Upper-middle income excluding China 40.13
BRICS 40

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Indicator: Inactivity rate (ILO modelled estimates) (15+)
Source: International Labour Organization
Licence: ILO Terms of Use (attribution required)
Coverage: 276 places, 10,464 data points, 1990–2027
Last refreshed: 24 August 2026

Imputed observations are not based on national data, are subject to high uncertainty and should not be used for country comparisons or rankings. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. This indicator conveys the number of persons of working age outside the labour force (that is, not employed or unemployed) expressed as a percentage of the working-age population. For more information, refer to the ILO Modelled Estimates (ILOEST) database description.