Iraq Labor Force Participation
Iraq labor force participation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 41.53%.
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Iraq · labor force participation data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Iraq recorded 41.53% for Labor Force Participation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.02 percentage points, from 41.56% to 41.53%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (41.30%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 39.66% in 2021 and the high was 43.15% in 2016.