Female Labor Force(% of female above15 years of age)

Female Labor Force Participation Rate
Huge difference between top 1 and bottom most country
Country Female (%) Category Rank
Solomon Islands 82.73 Top 20 1
Madagascar 82.58 Top 20 2
Burundi 78.78 Top 20 3
Mozambique 78.42 Top 20 4
Tanzania 77.14 Top 20 5
Ethiopia 74.75 Top 20 6
Angola 72.76 Top 20 7
Liberia 72.42 Top 20 8
Kenya 72.20 Top 20 9
Moldova 72.17 Top 20 10
Eritrea 71.37 Top 20 11
South Sudan 70.33 Top 20 12
Iceland 70.07 Top 20 13
Korea, Dem. People’s Rep.  69.65 Top 20 14
Cambodia 69.46 Top 20 15
Viet Nam 68.48 Top 20 16
Uganda 67.59 Top 20 17
New Zealand 67.57 Top 20 18
Azerbaijan 67.40 Top 20 19
Cameroon 67.29 Top 20 20
Afghanistan 4.83 Bottom 20 224
Yemen, Rep.  5.10 Bottom 20 223
Iraq 11.38 Bottom 20 222
Jordan 14.05 Bottom 20 221
Syrian Arab Republic 14.14 Bottom 20 220
Iran, Islamic Rep.  14.38 Bottom 20 219
Middle East & North Africa (excluding high income) 15.60 Bottom 20 218
Middle East & North Africa (IDA & IBRD) 15.60 Bottom 20 218
Egypt, Arab Rep.  16.45 Bottom 20 217
Algeria 16.81 Bottom 20 216
Djibouti 18.53 Bottom 20 215
West Bank and Gaza 18.89 Bottom 20 214
Middle East & North Africa 18.94 Bottom 20 213
Morocco 19.81 Bottom 20 212
Arab World 19.98 Bottom 20 211
Somalia 21.15 Bottom 20 210
Pakistan 24.46 Bottom 20 209
Mauritania 26.41 Bottom 20 208
Tunisia 26.85 Bottom 20 207
Lebanon 27.48 Bottom 20 206
Twenty countries with highest and lowest female Labor Force Participation Rate (%)
Data source: World Bank

Labor force with basic education(%)

United Kingdom has witnessed the sharpest fall in this indicator

Ratio of female to male labor force participation rate (%)

Percentage of the households having female head

Percentage of the households with a female household
Huge gap across the countries for which the latest data is available
Country LFPR Female (%) LFPR Male (%)
Ukraine 49.4 1
Eswatini 47.9 2
Eritrea 46.7 3
Haiti 45.1 4
Maldives 44.3 5
Afghanistan 1.7 67
Yemen, Rep.  7.8 66
Mali 8.2 65
Jordan 12.2 64
Pakistan 12.5 63
Time series data is not available on a regular basis for a number of countries
Data source: World Bank

Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work (% of 24 hour day)

Proportion of time spend on the domestic and unpaid work(%)
Data is for for the ten largest economies in the world
Country Female Male
Brazil 11.61 5.13
Canada 14.17 10.00
China 15.35 5.90
France 15.77 9.49
Germany 16.44 10.38
Italy 19.96 7.50
Japan 14.71 3.75
United Kingdom 16.01 12.25
United States 15.08 10.08
Data is not available for India
Data source: World Bank

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%)