Data · Prices, labour & income
Labor force participation rate, total (% of total population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate): Vietnam, 1990–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 72.78 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SL.TLF.CACT.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Labor force participation rate is the proportion of the population ages 15 and older that is economically active: all people who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1990 to 2025 (36 years of data). It moved from 78.15 to 72.78 %, a change of -6.9%. The highest value was 78.15 in 1990 and the lowest 72.78 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 | 72.78 |
| 2024 | 73.13 |
| 2023 | 73.55 |
| 2022 | 74.48 |
| 2021 | 73.74 |
| 2020 | 74.37 |
| 2019 | 76.62 |
| 2018 | 77.48 |
| 2017 | 77.20 |
| 2016 | 76.97 |
| 2015 | 77.43 |
| 2014 | 77.31 |
| 2013 | 77.23 |
| 2012 | 76.32 |
| 2011 | 76.37 |
| 2010 | 76.27 |
| 2009 | 76.04 |
| 2008 | 75.59 |
| 2007 | 75.03 |
| 2006 | 74.60 |
| 2005 | 74.25 |
| 2004 | 73.99 |
| 2003 | 74.10 |
| 2002 | 74.42 |
| 2001 | 74.91 |
| 2000 | 73.39 |
| 1999 | 74.51 |
| 1998 | 75.33 |
| 1997 | 76.14 |
| 1996 | 77.11 |
| 1995 | 77.32 |
| 1994 | 77.53 |
| 1993 | 77.71 |
| 1992 | 77.87 |
| 1991 | 78.06 |
| 1990 | 78.15 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 72.78 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 66.68 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 67.97 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 66.12 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 61.35 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 69.67 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 82.39 |
| Laos | 2025 | 66.09 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 55.09 |
| China | 2025 | 64.55 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Labor force participation rate, total (% of total population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.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_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.