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Labour force participation

Active, 15+. Poland slightly down; Germany up.

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The file

Labour force participation, ages 15+, % of that population. ILO, from 1990.

The indicator

SL.TLF.CACT.ZS = employed + unemployed. A drop can be retirement, school, or discouragement — the series does not pick.

What the numbers show

Poland slightly down (61% → 58%), the US too, Germany up. With an ageing Population this is the other labour-supply lever beside Unemployment.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Labour force participation”. World Bank Open Data (SL.TLF.CACT.ZS), 1990–2025, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/labour-participation/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
Netherlands202567.2
Sweden202564.6
China202564.6
Japan202563.4
Brazil202563.1
United States202561.7
United Kingdom202561.4
World202561.0
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
Germany202560.6
Czechia202560.3
Poland202558.3
Spain202557.4
India202555.7
France202555.3
Italy202549.3

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