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Japan: Employment to population ratio
Employed people aged 15 and over as a percentage of the population aged 15 and over. ILO modelled estimate.
Data status: CurrentThe latest figures we have collected are for 2025. 2026 is not overdue until March 27, 2028, a generous allowance for a annual series until we have timed this source’s releases.
Official statisticSource figures as of October 8, 2026Sources & methods
- Sources
- World Bank
- Period covered
- 1991 – 2025
- Source figures as of
- October 8, 2026
- Geography
- Japan
- Sector
- Whole economy (not a single sector)
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable
- Transformations
- Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
- Revisions
- Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
- Data status
- Current
Key figures
CK estimate% of population aged 15+ · calculated by CK Economics from World Bank data
- Latest · 2025
- 61.9
- +0.2 pp vs a year earlier1
- 5-year change
- +1.7 pp
- since 20202
- 10-year change
- +4.4 pp
- since 20152
- Record high
- 62.6
- 19923
- Record low
- 56.4
- 20123
- Where the latest ranks
- 91st pct.
- Higher than 91% of the other 34 observations since 19914
- 1Latest observation against the observation one year earlier (for weekly data, the nearest within three days).
- 2Latest observation against the observation five and ten years earlier.
- 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
- 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.
Methodology
Employed people aged 15 and over as a percentage of the population aged 15 and over. ILO modelled estimate. Compiled by the World Bank from national statistical offices and international agencies; some series (labour force participation) are ILO modelled estimates. Source series SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI 2026-10-08). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS?locations=JPN
All data
35 observations, newest first · % of population aged 15+
| Period | Value | Change y/y |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61.9 | +0.18 pp |
| 2024 | 61.7 | +0.45 pp |
| 2023 | 61.3 | +0.4 pp |
| 2022 | 60.9 | +0.56 pp |
| 2021 | 60.3 | +0.1 pp |
| 2020 | 60.2 | −0.34 pp |
| 2019 | 60.6 | +0.62 pp |
| 2018 | 59.9 | +1.19 pp |
| 2017 | 58.7 | +0.63 pp |
| 2016 | 58.1 | +0.62 pp |
| 2015 | 57.5 | +0.18 pp |
| 2014 | 57.3 | +0.46 pp |
| 2013 | 56.9 | +0.41 pp |
| 2012 | 56.4 | −0.11 pp |
| 2011 | 56.6 | +0.01 pp |
| 2010 | 56.5 | −0.29 pp |
| 2009 | 56.8 | −0.92 pp |
| 2008 | 57.7 | −0.3 pp |
| 2007 | 58 | +0.16 pp |
| 2006 | 57.9 | +0.16 pp |
| 2005 | 57.7 | +0.17 pp |
| 2004 | 57.6 | −0.02 pp |
| 2003 | 57.6 | −0.36 pp |
| 2002 | 57.9 | −0.95 pp |