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The labor force is the actual number of people available for work and is the sum of the employed and the unemployed. The U.S. labor force reached a record high of 170.7 million civilians in January 2025. [1] In February 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, there were 164.6 million civilians in the labor force. [2]
This is a list of countries by size of the labour force mostly based on The World Factbook. [1] Rank Country/Region Labour force Date of information ...
The sum of the labour force and out of the labour force results in the noninstitutional civilian population, that is, the number of people who (1) work (i.e., the employed), (2) can work but don't, although they are looking for a job (i.e., the unemployed), or (3) can work but don't, and are not looking for a job (i.e., out of the labour force).
Active labour market policies are based on the concept of social investment, which rests on the idea of basing decision-making on the welfare of society in quantifiable terms, by increasing the employability, incomes and productivity of economic agents, so this approach interprets state expenditure not as consumption but as an investment that will produce returns on the welfare of individuals.
Volume 3: Economically active population, employment, unemployment and hours of work (household surveys) of the International Labour Organization's Sources and Methods: Labour Statistics: provides details of the labour force and household surveys conducted by a range of countries
In China a full 78.3% of the urban labor force were employed in the public sector by 1978, the year the Chinese economic reform was launched, after which the rates dropped. Jin Zeng estimates the numbers were 56.4% in 1995 and 32.8% in 2003, [6] while other estimates are higher. [7] [8] [9]
The International Labour Organization states that a person is considered employed if they have worked at least 1 hour in "gainful" employment in the most recent week. [ 5 ] The employment-to-population ratio is usually calculated and reported periodically for the economy by the national agency of statistics.
Economic activity rate, EAR (or labor force participation rate, LFPR), is the percentage of the population, both employed and unemployed, [1] that constitutes the workforce, regardless of whether they are currently employed or job searching.