Our World in Data · OWID.FEMALE.LFP
Female labor force participation rate
Share of the female working-age population (ages 15 and over) who are economically active (employed or unemployed).
Female labor force participation rate data
Unweighted average of the 51 countries reporting in 2025
53.4%
-0.7% on 2015. Country values run from 14.1 to 82.9 %. An average of country values, not a regional total.
- Countries covered
- 53
- Years
- 1990–2025
- Observations
- 1,903
- Source
- Our World in Data
Countries
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Years
1990 – 2025 · 36 years
Annual values by country, 1990 to 2025
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- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
3 countries · 36 years · 1,903 values in the snapshot
Data tablevalues in %
| Country | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria DZ | 11.7 | 11.7 | 11.7 | 11.6 | 11.5 | 11.6 | 11.7 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 11.9 | 12 | 12.2 | 12.3 | 12.5 | 12.7 | 13 | 13.2 | 13.5 | 13.9 | 14.2 | 14.4 | 14.6 | 14.8 | 15 | 15.3 | 15.3 | 15 | 14.9 | 14.8 | 14.7 | 13.2 | 13.4 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 14.1 |
| Angola AO | 75.6 | 75.6 | 75.5 | 75.5 | 75.4 | 75.4 | 75.4 | 75.4 | 75.5 | 75.5 | 75.5 | 75.5 | 75.6 | 75.6 | 75.6 | 75.6 | 75.6 | 75.6 | 75.6 | 75.6 | 75.6 | 74.9 | 74.6 | 74.4 | 74.2 | 73.9 | 73.7 | 73.5 | 73.2 | 73 | 71.3 | 74.7 | 74 | 72.3 | 72.4 | 72.2 |
| Benin BJ | 57.1 | 57.1 | 57.1 | 57.8 | 58.6 | 59.3 | 60.1 | 60.9 | 61.7 | 62.6 | 63.5 | 64.4 | 65.3 | 65.8 | 66.2 | 66.7 | 67.2 | 67.7 | 68.1 | 68.6 | 69.1 | 69.6 | 70.2 | 70.8 | 71.4 | 72 | 72.6 | 73.2 | 73.8 | 74.3 | 73.6 | 74.8 | 74.6 | 74.8 | 75 | 75.2 |
Source and notes
- Indicator code
- OWID.FEMALE.LFP
- Unit
- %
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Collection
- Our World in Data
Values as published by Our World in Data: ILO Modelled Estimates, via World Bank (2026). Coverage is the countries and years held in this snapshot, not the full extent of the series at source. Check at ourworldindata.org.