North Korea Labor Force Participation
North Korea labor force participation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 82.15%.
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North Korea · labor force participation data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
North Korea recorded 82.15% for Labor Force Participation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.01 percentage points, from 82.16% to 82.15%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (81.84%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 80.62% in 2020 and the high was 82.18% in 2019.