Afghanistan Labor Force Participation
Afghanistan labor force participation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 37.46%.
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Afghanistan · labor force participation data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Afghanistan recorded 37.46% for Labor Force Participation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.09 percentage points, from 37.55% to 37.46%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (41.64%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 37.46% in 2025 and the high was 47.31% in 2017.