Data · Prices, labour & income
Composite rate of labour underutilization (LU4), 15+: Vietnam, 2007–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 3.2 %
- Source
- International Labour Organization
- Code
- LUU_XLU4_RT
- Frequency
- Yearly
What the series shows
The series runs from 2007 to 2024 (17 years of data). It moved from 5.8 to 3.2 %, a change of -44.3%. The highest value was 8.3 in 2018 and the lowest 3.2 in 2024. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 8 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 (%) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.2 |
| 2023 | 3.6 |
| 2022 | 3.8 |
| 2021 | 5.8 |
| 2020 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 4.4 |
| 2014 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 4.7 |
| 2012 | 4.4 |
| 2011 | 4.8 |
| 2010 | 6.1 |
| 2009 | 8.1 |
| 2007 | 5.8 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 3.2 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 1.2 |
| Indonesia | 2023 | 12.7 |
| Malaysia | 2022 | 5.9 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 10.8 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 7.0 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 6.4 |
| Laos | 2022 | 3.9 |
| Myanmar | 2020 | 3.5 |
How to cite (APA 7)
International Labour Organization. (2026). Composite rate of labour underutilization (LU4), 15+, Vietnam [Data set]. ILOSTAT. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/
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 ilo_luu_xlu4_rt, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.