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19% of women in the labour force in 2025
Women’s labour-force participation was 19.0% in 2025, compared with 68.5% for men.
2025 · HCP · 2024–2025
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Women’s labour-force participation was 19.0% in 2025, compared with 68.5% for men.
Participation among women aged 15 and older was 19.1% in 2024; the corresponding rate for men was 68.6%.
In 2025 the figures were 19.0% for women and 68.5% for men, a gap of 49.5 percentage points. Participation includes people working or actively seeking work; it is not the employment rate.
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Women’s participation was 19.1% and men’s was 68.6%.
Women’s participation was 19.0% and men’s was 68.5%.
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- Women working at an argan oil cooperative in Morocco: Elgaard · CC BY-SA 4.0
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