What labour force participation is
Labour force participation, ages 15+ (SL.TLF.CACT.ZS, ILO modelled). Ranked by each economy’s latest published year.
Source: World Bank Open Data. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (terms).
Taiwan
Taiwan — Participation
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 | 64.35% |
| 2024 | 64.47% |
| 2023 | 64.27% |
| 2022 | 63.79% |
| 2021 | 62.55% |
| 2020 | 62.27% |
| 2019 | 62.99% |
| 2018 | 62.76% |
| 2017 | 62.91% |
| 2016 | 62.63% |
| 2015 | 62.58% |
| 2014 | 62.28% |
| 2013 | 61.40% |
| 2012 | 60.93% |
| 2011 | 60.64% |
| 2010 | 60.33% |
| 2009 | 60.22% |
| 2008 | 60.81% |
| 2007 | 61.32% |
| 2006 | 61.46% |
| 2005 | 61.56% |
| 2004 | 61.82% |
| 2003 | 61.11% |
| 2002 | 61.62% |
#CountryParticipationChangeYear
30Singapore69.67%+0.47 pp202550Australia66.54%−0.18 pp202568China64.55%−0.36 pp2025
71Korea, Rep.64.35%−0.11 pp202580Japan63.45%+0.15 pp2025
92United States61.70%−0.26 pp202595United Kingdom61.37%−0.19 pp2025130Euro area56.97%−0.32 pp2025Reading this series
This series is the labour-force participation rate for people aged 15 and over: the share who are either employed or unemployed and looking for work. The source is World Bank Open Data indicator SL.TLF.CACT.ZS, an ILO modelled estimate. It measures who is in the labour market, not what they earn, and it is not the same as the employment ratio: unemployed people count in the numerator here but not there.
Participation reflects retirement ages, education, caring responsibilities and social norms as well as job availability, so levels differ for reasons that have little to do with the unemployment rate. The series is modelled from national surveys and censuses and is revised periodically. Use the chart and range buttons to follow one economy and the ranked ledger to compare latest published years. Treat small cross-country gaps with caution, because the estimate carries uncertainty where survey coverage is thin. A fall can mean people left the labour force rather than lost work, so read it with the unemployment rate.
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.