Countries with the Highest Female Labour Force Participation 2025
About This Dataset
Countries with the Highest Female Labour Force Participation 2025
Countries ranked by female labour force participation (%) in 2025, using World Bank figures for the 182 countries that reported that year. Madagascar leads on 82.91, ahead of Solomon Islands (82.34) and Nigeria (80.70). The share of women aged 15 and over who are working or looking for work, modelled by the ILO. Subsistence farming counts as employment, which lifts several low-income countries to the top.
Analysis
Madagascar (82.91), Solomon Islands (82.34) and Nigeria (80.70) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 82.91 down to 66.08, a spread of 16.83. Only 0.57 separates Madagascar from Solomon Islands in second, 0.7% of the leading figure. The chart shows the twenty highest of 182 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.
Source:
World Bank
Key Findings
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Madagascar leads in Female Labour Force Participation (%) with 82.91 in 2025.
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Average Female Labour Force Participation (%) in 2025: 75 · median: 74.
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Gap in 2025: Madagascar is 1.3× larger than New Zealand.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2025 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Female Labour Force Participation (%)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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