What the employment-to-population ratio is
Employment to population, ages 15+ (SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS, ILO modelled). Ranked by each economy’s latest published year.
Source: World Bank Open Data. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (terms).
Taiwan
Taiwan — Employment
TW desk: Taiwan first (IMF WEO headline rate); Korea, United States, euro area, United Kingdom and Australia alongside.
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World Bank Open Data does not publish this series for Taiwan. Related-country figures below use the same ILO modelled estimates as the all-countries pages.
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 62.62% |
| 2024 | 62.67% |
| 2023 | 62.55% |
| 2022 | 61.97% |
| 2021 | 60.27% |
| 2020 | 59.83% |
| 2019 | 60.63% |
| 2018 | 60.36% |
| 2017 | 60.61% |
| 2016 | 60.34% |
| 2015 | 60.36% |
| 2014 | 60.36% |
| 2013 | 59.52% |
| 2012 | 59.22% |
| 2011 | 58.82% |
| 2010 | 58.33% |
| 2009 | 58.20% |
| 2008 | 59.01% |
| 2007 | 59.47% |
| 2006 | 59.46% |
| 2005 | 59.41% |
| 2004 | 59.70% |
| 2003 | 59.07% |
| 2002 | 59.74% |
#CountryEmploymentChangeYear
24Singapore67.71%+0.40 pp202543Australia63.82%−0.27 pp202554Korea, Rep.62.62%−0.05 pp202558Japan61.89%+0.18 pp2025
61China61.57%−0.36 pp2025
81United States59.11%−0.35 pp202587United Kingdom58.46%−0.41 pp2025128Euro area53.39%−0.26 pp2025Reading this series
This series is the employment-to-population ratio for people aged 15 and over: the share of that population who are employed. The source is World Bank Open Data indicator SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS, an ILO modelled estimate. It is not the unemployment rate. Students, retirees, people looking after a household and others outside the labour force are all in the denominator, so the ratio can fall even when unemployment is unchanged. The ratio also treats each employed person alike, whether they work an hour a week or a full year.
The indicator is modelled from national labour-force surveys and censuses and is revised when those inputs change. Population age structure and retirement ages differ between economies, so levels are not directly equivalent. The chart shows selected economies over the years you choose, and the ranked ledger shows each economy’s latest published year. Read the direction of travel and the broad level; small differences between neighbouring economies sit within the uncertainty of the estimates. Read it with the participation rate for context.
About this desk
The World Bank does not publish Taiwan on any of these labour series, and the IMF World Economic Outlook carries only a headline unemployment rate for it. This desk therefore shows a Taiwanese value on the unemployment page alone; the youth, female, male, participation and employment pages present related economies only. That set is Korea, the United States, Japan, China, the euro area, the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore, as far as each source provides them. The build does not present a Taiwanese figure the sources have not published.
The values are the same World Bank ILO modelled estimates used on the all-countries pages, filtered to this comparison set. Use the Country selector to move to a desk with its own series, the Chart and Table tabs for two views, and the range buttons to shorten the window. Indicator codes and licences are named on each page.