This is a list of countries by employment rate (the proportion of working age adults employed, here with working age between 15 and 64 years old). The information is based on data from the OECD as at 2003, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf. It currently only includes OECD member countries and can be expanded as new data (with sources) is found. See also : http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/24/38335554.pdf for 2005 data. Employment data for the European Union countries can be retrieved from Eurostat http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&language=en&pcode=tsiem010&tableSelection=1&footnotes=yes&labeling=labels&plugin=1.

Due to different methods for calculating the unemployment rate, the employment rate can be used as a supplemental method of comparison.

List

Rank by sovereign state	Rank by entity	Entity	Employment rate (%)	Source / date of information
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1	1	Switzerland	78.6	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
2	2	Iceland	78.2	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
4	4	Norway	75.3	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
3	3	Netherlands	74.7	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
5	5	Denmark	73.4	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
6	6	New Zealand	72.9	2009 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
7	9	Sweden	72.7	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
8	8	Australia	72.0	2009 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
9	12	Austria	71.7	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
10	7	Canada	71.5	2009 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
12	10	Germany	71.1	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
13	11	Japan	70.0	2009 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
11	13	United Kingdom	69.5	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
15	31	Russia	68.4	2008 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
14	16	Finland	68.1	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
16	15	United States	67.6	2009 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
17	18	Slovenia	66.2	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
18	18	Portugal	65.2	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
20	19	Luxembourg	65.2	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
19	20	Czech Republic	65.0	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
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OECD Average	64.8	2009 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
21	21	Early Modern France	64.0	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
23	22	South Korea	62.9	2009 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
25	23	Belgium	62.0	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
22	21	Estonia	61.0	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
24	26		60.0	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
29	31	Israel	59.8	2009 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
26	24	Greece	59.6	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
30	25	Mexico	59.4	2009 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
31	28	Poland	59.3	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
28	17	Slovakia	58.8	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
27	27	Spain	58.6	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
32	29	Italy	56.9	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
33	30	Chile	56.1	2009 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
34	31	Hungary	55.4	2010 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.
30	31	Turkey	44.3	2009 OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/15/32504422.pdf.