ilostat stats sheet 1 : labour force participation · 2019-06-07 · ilostat stats sheet n°1 :...
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Figure 2 Annual growth in working-age populations (by age group) and total labour force, 2000 - 2018
Concepts and definitions The labour force represents the current
supply of labour for the production of goods
and services for pay or profit. The labour
force is the sum of the employed and the
unemployed.
Employed : all persons of working age doing
work for pay or profit.
Unemployed : all persons of working age not
in employment, but available for and seeking
employment.
The labour force participation rate presents
the labour force expressed as a percentage of
the working-age population.
Figure 1 Composition of the world’s working-age population by
labour market status, 2018
STATS SHEET n°1 : Labour Force Participation ILOSTAT
Trends in the working-age population and labour force participation
Though the labour force is growing in size, the labour force participation rate is falling because the working-age
population is growing faster than the labour force. This global trend is mainly driven by the patterns observed in
Asia and the Pacific.
A growing working-age population coupled with a falling labour force participation rate implies that the number and
prevalence of people outside the labour force is increasing.
Another notable trend is the slow growth (or decline) in the number of young people (ages 15 to 24) entering the
labour force each year. Since 2000, the youth labour force has consistently grown less than the total labour force,
in all regions. This trend can be attributed to various factors, including declining youth populations and young
people remaining in school for longer.
Sex and age of the labour force
Men are more numerous than women in the labour force in every age
group (even though they are not more numerous in the total population
in each age group). This is especially the case in older age groups: in
2018, for every 100 women aged 65 or above in the labour force, there
were 179 men. This ratio has decreased in older age segments since
2000. However, in younger age groups (all age groups under 44 years old)
this ratio has increased.
Figure 3
Labour force by sex and age with sex ratios, 2000 and 2018 Figure 4
Regional proportions of the global labour force, 2018
Geography of the labour force
Countries in Asia and the Pacific made up 57.5 per cent of the world’s
labour force in 2018. About 14 per cent of the world’s labour force lived in
the Americas, and an additional 14 per cent in Africa.
2.1 %11.8 %
9 % 5.3 %
1.6 %
26.8 %
10 %20.7 %4.1 %
6.3 %
Northern
Af ricaSub-Saharan Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean Northern America
Arab
States
Eastern Asia
South-Eastern Asia
and the PacificSouthern Asia
Central and
Western Asia
Eastern Europe
Northern, Southern
and Western Europe
Africa
Americas
Arab
States
Asia and the Pacific
Europe and Central Asia
(of the world’s working-age population)
outside the labour
force
38.6%
Ratio of
female to male
in the labour force
100 : 156
100 156
Age
2000: 35yrs 6m
2018: 38yrs 10m
of the
median labour force
participant has increased
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