COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Hong Kong SAR, China Employment Rate
Hong Kong SAR, China employment rate: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54,78 | -0,36 |
| 2024 | 55,14 | -0,39 |
| 2023 | 55,53 | 0,17 |
| 2022 | 55,35 | -0,35 |
| 2021 | 55,70 | 0,15 |
| 2020 | 55,55 | -2,70 |
| 2019 | 58,25 | -0,70 |
| 2018 | 58,95 | 0,37 |
| 2017 | 58,58 | 0,23 |
| 2016 | 58,35 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Employment to population ratio is the proportion of a country's population that is employed.
Source organization: ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: January 17, 2026
Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 07:37:01. Open original metadata response.
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesHong Kong SAR, China recorded 54,78 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2024, the employment rate decreased by 0,36.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.
Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 56,62; the minimum was 54,78 in 2025 and the maximum was 58,95 in 2018.
Hong Kong SAR, China ranks 116 out of 187 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for East Asia & Pacific.
It is also below the available average for the High income group.
Share of working-age population employed.