Employment-to-population ratio 1976 - 2023

Description	National estimate. Employment to population ratio is the proportion of a country's population that is employed. Employment is defined as persons of working age who, during a short reference period, were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period (i.e. who worked in a job for at least one hour) or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangements. Ages 15 and older are generally considered the working-age population.
Unit of measure	%

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National estimate. Employment to population ratio is the proportion of a country's population that is employed. Employment is defined as persons of working age who, during a short reference period, were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period (i.e. who worked in a job for at least one hour) or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangements. Ages 15 and older are generally considered the working-age population.

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Source: World Bank

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	United States
1976	56.8
1977	57.9
1978	59.3
1979	59.9
1980	59.2
1981	59.0
1982	57.8
1983	57.9
1984	59.5
1985	60.1
1986	60.7
1987	61.5
1988	62.3
1989	63.0
1990	62.8
1991	61.7
1992	61.5
1993	61.7
1994	62.6
1995	63.0
1996	63.2
1997	63.8
1998	64.1
1999	64.3
2000	64.4
2001	63.7
2002	62.7
2003	62.3
2004	62.4
2005	62.7
2006	63.1
2007	63.0
2008	62.2
2009	59.3
2010	58.5
2011	58.4
2012	58.6
2013	58.6
2014	59.0
2015	59.3
2016	59.7
2017	60.1
2018	60.4
2019	60.8
2020	56.8
2021	58.4
2022	60.0
2023	60.3

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