SGI 2022 | Sustainable Policies | Economic Policies | Labor Markets

What is the employment rate?

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Time series

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Employment to population ratio, age group 15-64 years
Year:	2021
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, JPN, KOR, MEX, NZL, TUR, GBR, USA
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: LFS by sex and age - indicators URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted June 15th, 2022
Source 2:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Employment rates by sex, age and country of birth (%) [lfsa_ergacob] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurosta… extracted June 15th, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Maximum:	89.1425
Minimum:	43.1625
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Employment

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Upper middle group

Netherlands

8.2

80.10

Iceland

8.2

79.80

Switzerland

8.1

79.30

New Zealand

7.9

78.34

Japan

7.8

77.65

Norway

7.5

76.30

Germany

7.4

75.80

Denmark

7.3

75.50

Sweden

7.3

75.40

Malta

7.2

75.00

Australia

7.2

74.97

7.2

74.71

Czechia

7.1

74.40

Estonia

7.0

74.00

Canada

6.9

73.23

Hungary

6.9

73.10

Finland

6.8

72.70

Austria

6.7

72.40

Lithuania

6.7

72.40

Slovenia

6.5

71.40

Cyprus

6.4

70.80

Poland

6.3

70.30

Portugal

6.3

70.10

Latvia

6.2

69.90

Ireland

6.2

69.80

Luxembourg

6.1

69.40

Slovakia

6.1

69.40

USA

6.1

69.40

Lower middle group

Bulgaria

5.9

68.10

France

5.7

67.20

Israel

5.6

66.60

South Korea

5.6

66.53

Belgium

5.3

65.30

Croatia

5.0

63.40

Spain

4.8

62.70

Romania

4.7

61.90

Mexico

4.5

61.04

Chile

4.0

58.47

Italy

3.9

58.20

Greece

3.7

57.20

Bottom group

Turkey

2.4

50.22

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