Employment Rate / Laos
Laos Employment Rate
Laos employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 65.30%.
COUNTRY: Laos
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-18 03:30:08
GM ECONOMY RATING
Laos · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
53 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
3.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Laos · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
65.30%
Previous
65.22%
Range avg.
62.16%
Rank
20
Countries by employment rate
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65.30%2025 · Rank 20
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Laos recorded 65.30% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.09 percentage points, from 65.22% to 65.30%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (62.16%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 57.83% in 2017 and the high was 65.30% in 2025.
Comparison
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