COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Sao Tome and Principe Employment Rate
Sao Tome and Principe 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 | 21,21 | -0,06 |
| 2024 | 21,27 | -0,06 |
| 2023 | 21,33 | -0,07 |
| 2022 | 21,40 | 0,32 |
| 2021 | 21,08 | 0,19 |
| 2020 | 20,89 | -0,71 |
| 2019 | 21,60 | -0,12 |
| 2018 | 21,72 | -0,06 |
| 2017 | 21,78 | 0,15 |
| 2016 | 21,63 | — |
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 seriesSao Tome and Principe recorded 21,21 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2024, the employment rate decreased by 0,06.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 21,39; the minimum was 20,89 in 2020 and the maximum was 21,78 in 2017.
Sao Tome and Principe ranks 187 out of 187 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for Sub-Saharan Africa.
It is also below the available average for the Lower middle income group.
Share of working-age population employed.