Italy Labor Force Participation
Italy labor force participation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 49.30%.
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Italy · labor force participation data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Italy recorded 49.30% for Labor Force Participation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.29 percentage points, from 49.59% to 49.30%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (49.23%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 48.22% in 2020 and the high was 49.80% in 2023.