Global Labour Market
The labour market for every country on Earth in one clean Parquet - the worldwide complement to our European labour products. Eleven World Bank indicators: labour-force participation (total, female, female-to-male ratio), unemployment (total, female, youth), the employment-to-population ratio, vulnerable employment, and the agriculture/industry/services employment split - per country per year since 2000, ~200 countries. The cross-country labour-structure panel for global-macro, development and EM analysis; joins to the country profiles on ISO-3 code.
- Source
- World Bank
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Annual
- Data through
- 2025-01-01
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- 11 labour indicators × ~200 countries × 2000-present - participation, unemployment (incl. female), employment mix
- Worldwide (not just Europe/OECD); the structural labour picture, not just the unemployment rate
- country (ISO3) × indicator × year; joins to global-country-profile on ISO-3
- Source: World Bank Open Data (CC-BY-4.0) - fully redistributable
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Country (ISO3 code) | 100.0% | 187 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Year | 100.0% | 26 |
| indicator | str | Participation / unemployment / employment-population / sector shares | 100.0% | 11 |
| value | float | Indicator value (%) | 100.0% | 9,263 |
| unit | str | Unit | 100.0% | 1 |
| res_min | int | Native resolution (annual) | 100.0% | 1 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: World Bank (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("global-labour-market_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 187 zones
AFG · AGO · ALB · ARE · ARG · ARM · AUS · AUT · AZE · BDI · BEL · BEN · BFA · BGD · BGR · BHR · BHS · BIH · BLR · BLZ · BOL · BRA · BRB · BRN · BTN · BWA · CAF · CAN · CHE · CHI · CHL · CHN · CIV · CMR · COD · COG · COL · COM · CPV · CRI · CUB · CYP · CZE · DEU · DJI · DNK · DOM · DZA · ECU · EGY · ERI · ESP · EST · ETH · FIN · FJI · FRA · GAB · GBR · GEO · GHA · GIN · GMB · GNB · GNQ · GRC · GTM · GUM · GUY · HKG · HND · HRV · HTI · HUN · IDN · IND · IRL · IRN · IRQ · ISL · ISR · ITA · JAM · JOR · JPN · KAZ · KEN · KGZ · KHM · KOR · KWT · LAO · LBN · LBR · LBY · LCA · LKA · LSO · LTU · LUX · LVA · MAC · MAR · MDA · MDG · MDV · MEX · MKD · MLI · MLT · MMR · MNE · MNG · MOZ · MRT · MUS · MWI · MYS · NAM · NCL · NER · NGA · NIC · NLD · NOR · NPL · NZL · OMN · PAK · PAN · PER · PHL · PNG · POL · PRI · PRK · PRT · PRY · PSE · PYF · QAT · ROU · RUS · RWA · SAU · SDN · SEN · SGP · SLB · SLE · SLV · SOM · SRB · SSD · STP · SUR · SVK · SVN · SWE · SWZ · SYR · TCD · TGO · THA · TJK · TKM · TLS · TON · TTO · TUN · TUR · TZA · UGA · UKR · URY · USA · UZB · VCT · VEN · VIR · VNM · VUT · WSM · YEM · ZAF · ZMB · ZWE
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