Laos Labor Force Participation
Laos labor force participation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 66.09%.
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Laos · labor force participation data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Laos recorded 66.09% for Labor Force Participation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.10 percentage points, from 65.99% to 66.09%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (63.45%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 59.78% in 2017 and the high was 66.09% in 2025.