Data · Prices, labour & income
Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate): Vietnam, 1990–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 68.6 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
The labor force participation rate is the labor force as a percent of the population ages 15 and older. The labor force is the sum of all persons of working age who are employed and those who are unemployed.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1990 to 2025 (36 years of data). It moved from 74.7 to 68.6 %, a change of -8.3%. The highest value was 74.7 in 1990 and the lowest 68.6 in 2025. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.6 |
| 2024 | 68.9 |
| 2023 | 69.2 |
| 2022 | 69.9 |
| 2021 | 69.1 |
| 2020 | 69.1 |
| 2019 | 71.5 |
| 2018 | 72.9 |
| 2017 | 72.6 |
| 2016 | 72.5 |
| 2015 | 72.9 |
| 2014 | 73.1 |
| 2013 | 72.9 |
| 2012 | 72.0 |
| 2011 | 71.7 |
| 2010 | 71.7 |
| 2009 | 71.9 |
| 2008 | 71.6 |
| 2007 | 71.1 |
| 2006 | 70.7 |
| 2005 | 70.4 |
| 2004 | 70.1 |
| 2003 | 70.4 |
| 2002 | 70.8 |
| 2001 | 71.5 |
| 2000 | 70.0 |
| 1999 | 71.2 |
| 1998 | 71.8 |
| 1997 | 72.5 |
| 1996 | 73.6 |
| 1995 | 73.8 |
| 1994 | 74.0 |
| 1993 | 74.2 |
| 1992 | 74.4 |
| 1991 | 74.6 |
| 1990 | 74.7 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 68.6 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 59.0 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 53.7 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 51.6 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 50.5 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 63.6 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 77.4 |
| Laos | 2025 | 61.6 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 40.9 |
| China | 2025 | 59.1 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name sl_tlf_cact_fe_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.