Nepal Labor Force Participation
Nepal labor force participation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 39.24%.
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Nepal · labor force participation data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Nepal recorded 39.24% for Labor Force Participation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.07 percentage points, from 39.31% to 39.24%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (39.58%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 39.24% in 2025 and the high was 40.10% in 2016.