Women in paid work by country
Share of women who earn money in a job. The map opens on 2019, with figures for 27 countries.
Highest in 2019
- Burundi 78.8%
- Benin 77.2%
- Uganda 76.5%
- Sierra Leone 69.8%
- Nigeria 65.2%
Lowest in 2019
- Afghanistan 10.5%
- Pakistan 12.7%
- India 19.9%
- Tajikistan 23.8%
- Turkey 28.1%
About the data
- Unit
- % of women
- Years
- 1992–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Global Data Lab
- License
- Free for non-commercial use with credit; commercial use needs written permission from the Global Data Lab
- Credit
- Data retrieved from the Education and Work database of the Global Data Lab (v2.1), https://globaldatalab.org/education/
All countries
- Afghanistan 10.5% (2019)
- Albania 29.7% (2019)
- Angola 63.5% (2019)
- Armenia 33.4% (2019)
- Azerbaijan 19.1% (2010)
- Bangladesh 31.5% (2014)
- Benin 77.2% (2019)
- Bolivia 63.7% (2011)
- Brazil 50.4% (2000)
- Burkina Faso 76.8% (2010)
- Burundi 78.8% (2019)
- Cambodia 71.8% (2014)
- Cameroon 61.9% (2019)
- Central African Rep. 77.5% (1998)
- Chad 32.3% (2018)
- Colombia 53.4% (2018)
- Comoros 35.4% (2015)
- Congo 80.0% (2014)
- Côte d'Ivoire 69.4% (1999)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 71.6% (2016)
- Dominican Rep. 48.2% (2016)
- Egypt 15.5% (2017)
- Eritrea 19.4% (2005)
- eSwatini 40.8% (2010)
- Ethiopia 36.3% (2019)
- Gabon 42.0% (2012)
- Gambia 43.8% (2017)
- Ghana 72.0% (2014)
- Guatemala 45.0% (2018)
- Guinea 63.9% (2019)
- Guyana 36.2% (2013)
- Haiti 44.0% (2019)
- Honduras 43.9% (2014)
- India 19.9% (2019)
- Indonesia 53.2% (2019)
- Jordan 13.7% (2017)
- Kazakhstan 33.7% (2002)
- Kenya 57.4% (2014)
- Kyrgyzstan 22.2% (2015)
- Lesotho 33.6% (2014)
- Liberia 55.3% (2013)
- Madagascar 81.4% (2009)
- Malawi 63.6% (2019)
- Maldives 40.2% (2019)
- Mali 48.8% (2019)
- Mauritania 29.1% (2001)
- Moldova 53.6% (2009)
- Morocco 19.2% (2006)
- Mozambique 38.5% (2011)
- Myanmar 64.0% (2019)
- Namibia 41.0% (2016)
- Nepal 58.6% (2016)
- Nicaragua 39.7% (2004)
- Niger 20.9% (2015)
- Nigeria 65.2% (2019)
- Pakistan 12.7% (2019)
- Papua New Guinea 31.0% (2019)
- Peru 55.0% (2015)
- Philippines 45.4% (2017)
- Rwanda 80.5% (2018)
- São Tomé and Principe 51.7% (2013)
- Senegal 43.0% (2019)
- Sierra Leone 69.8% (2019)
- South Africa 32.4% (2019)
- Tajikistan 23.8% (2019)
- Tanzania 71.6% (2015)
- Timor-Leste 33.6% (2019)
- Togo 69.4% (2017)
- Turkey 28.1% (2019)
- Uganda 76.5% (2019)
- Ukraine 68.9% (2011)
- Uzbekistan 45.1% (2000)
- Vietnam 91.5% (2005)
- Yemen 7.8% (2016)
- Zambia 43.4% (2019)
- Zimbabwe 45.7% (2018)