List of countries by employment rate

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This is a list of countries by employment rate (the proportion of working age adults employed, here with working age between 15 and 64 years old). The information is based on data from the OECD as at 2003, [1]. It currently only includes OECD member countries and can be expanded as new data (with sources) is found. See also : http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/24/38335554.pdf for 2005 data.

Due to different methods for calculating the unemployment rate, the employment rate can be used as a supplemental method of comparison.

Rank by sovereign state	Rank by entity	Entity	Employment rate (%)	Source / date of information
—	—	World
1	1	Iceland	83	2003 OECD [2].
2	2	Switzerland	78	2003 OECD [3].
3	3	Norway	76	2003 OECD [4].
4	4	Denmark	75	2003 OECD [5].
5	5	Sweden	74	2003 OECD [6].
6	6	Netherlands	73	2003 OECD [7].
7	7	United Kingdom	73	2003 OECD [8].
8	8	New Zealand	72	2003 OECD [9].
9	9	Canada	72	2003 OECD [10].
10	10	United States	71	2003 OECD [11].
11	11	Australia	69	2003 OECD [12].
12	12	Japan	68	2003 OECD [13].
13	13	Austria	68	2003 OECD [14].
14	14	Finland	67	2003 OECD [15].
15	15	Portugal	66	2003 OECD [16].
—	16	OECD Average	65	2003 OECD [17].
16	17	Ireland	65	2003 OECD [18].
17	18	Czech Republic	65	2003 OECD [19].
18	19	Germany	65	2003 OECD [20].
19	20	Luxembourg	64	2003 OECD [21].
20	21	Korea	63	2003 OECD [22].
21	22	France	62	2003 OECD [23].
22	23	Spain	61	2003 OECD [24].
23	24	Mexico	60	2003 OECD [25].
24	25	Belgium	60	2003 OECD [26].
25	26	Greece	59	2003 OECD [27].
26	27	Slovakia	59	2003 OECD [28].
27	28	Hungary	58	2003 OECD [29].
28	29	Italy	57	2003 OECD [30].
29	30	Poland	53	2003 OECD [31].
30	31	Turkey	46	2003 OECD [32].

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