Female Labour Force Participation in Qatar

What this means

Share of women aged 15 and older who are in the labour force. The labour force includes employed and unemployed women. A high participation rate is not automatically evidence of gender equality or good jobs.

Higher share of women aged 15 and older who are in the labour force; lower share of women aged 15 and older who are in the labour force.

Methodology & source

Values are World Bank World Development Indicators SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS: female labour-force participation rate, female population ages 15 and older, ILO modelled estimates (ILOEST). The original producer is the International Labour Organization; World Bank WDI is the import and redistribution path. Direct ILOSTAT reuse and the national-estimate code SL.TLF.CACT.FE.NE.ZS are not used. The figure is the share of women aged 15 and older who are employed or unemployed. It is not the female employment-to-population ratio (SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.FE.ZS), not both-sexes participation, not the 15-64 code SL.TLF.ACTI.FE.ZS, and not a female-to-male ratio. The denominator is all women aged 15 and older, not ages 15-64. Informal, family, farm, own-account, and some subsistence work can put a woman in the labour force under the ILO short-reference-period definition. The indicator does not measure female employment, wages, hours, job quality, gender equality, or women's rights. A high participation rate is not automatically evidence of equality; it can reflect economic necessity. A low rate is not automatically evidence of discrimination; it can reflect unpaid care, education, retirement, labour institutions, demographic structure, or legal barriers. Values are internationally harmonized modelled estimates. WDI does not provide a usable row-level observed-versus-imputed flag, so the layer is classified as modelled rather than labour-force survey results. Source revisions can alter historical values. 2025 is omitted because the January 2026 ILO methodology cycle treats that year as having projection or nowcast character. 2026-2027 projections are not imported. OurBlueDot does not interpolate, fill missing years, carry the last value forward, replace missing values with zero, mix national estimates, use OECD or Eurostat 15-64 values as fills, average sex-specific series, import the female employment twin, or splice direct ILOSTAT values into this WDI vintage. Country rows are joined by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3; regional and income aggregates are excluded. Territories outside UN-193, including WDI entities PSE and XKX, are not added to the country registry. Map ranks are comparable-sample competition ranks among currently loaded countries (rank 1 is the highest female labour-force participation share). Ranks compare participation among countries with a value for the selected year. A higher rank does not mean a better country for women or a more equal labour market. Missing countries remain without a value.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators

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World Bank World Development Indicators SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS: female labour-force participation rate, female population ages 15+, ILO modelled estimates (ILOEST). The original producer is the International Labour Organization; World Bank WDI is the import and redistribution path (CC BY 4.0). The figure is the share of women aged 15 and older who are in the labour force (employed or unemployed) under the ILO short-reference-period definition. Informal, family, farm, own-account, and some subsistence work can put a woman in the labour force. The denominator is all women aged 15 and older. It is not restricted to ages 15-64, is not the female employment-to-population ratio, is not both-sexes participation, and is not a female-to-male ratio. The indicator does not measure female employment, wages, hours, job quality, gender equality, or women’s rights. A high participation rate is not automatically evidence of equality. A low rate is not automatically evidence of discrimination. Values are internationally harmonized modelled estimates. WDI does not provide a usable row-level observed-versus-imputed flag for this series. Source revisions can alter historical values. OurBlueDot does not interpolate, fill missing years, carry the last value forward, replace missing values with zero, mix the national-estimate code SL.TLF.CACT.FE.NE.ZS, use OECD or Eurostat 15-64 values as fills, average sex-specific series, import the female employment twin SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.FE.ZS, or splice direct ILOSTAT values into this WDI vintage. 2025 is omitted because the January 2026 ILO methodology cycle treats that year as having projection or nowcast character. 2026-2027 projections are not imported. Rows are country and economy series joined by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3; World Bank regional and income aggregates are excluded. Territories outside UN-193, including WDI entities PSE and XKX, are not added to the country registry. 174 of 193 UN members have a finite value in 2024. 15 UN members have no advertised-year value: Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Micronesia, Grenada, Kiribati, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, San Marino, Seychelles, Tuvalu. Missing countries remain without a rank.