Databook of International Labour Statistics 2024

• Full Text: Databook of International Labour Statistics 2024（PDF: 6.0MB）

• Published on March 28, 2024
• [Errata] Table 9-3-3(item 'i-u', 'h') was replaced to the corrected data. (update on June 18, 2024)

This publication is available in electronic format only.
Individual tables in PDF and MS Excel format are as follows:
(Update on April 17, 2024)

Table of Contents

• 1. Economy and
  Business
• 2. Population and
  Labour force
• 3. Employment Structure
• 4. Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance and Employment Adjustment
• 5. Wages and
  Labour Costs
• 6. Hours of Work and Working-time Arrangements
• 7. Trade Union, Industrial Relations and Occupational Accidents
• 8. Education and Human Resources Development
• 9. Worklife and Welfare

1. Economy and Business (PDF:1.6MB)

• Table 1-1-1. GDP in national currency (PDF:929KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 1-1-2. GDP in U.S. dollars (PDF:929KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 1-2-1. Nominal GDP growth rates (PDF:935KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 1-2-2. Real GDP growth rates (PDF:929KB)  (Excel:18KB)
• Table 1-3-1. GDP per capita in national currency (PDF:935KB)  (Excel:20KB)
• Table 1-3-2. GDP per capita in U.S. dollars (PDF:914KB)  (Excel:20KB)
• Table 1-4-1. National income per capita in national currency (PDF:912KB)  (Excel:20KB)
• Table 1-4-2. National income per capita in U.S. dollars (PDF:920KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 1-5. Compensation of employees (PDF:920KB)  (Excel:20KB)
• Table 1-6-1. GDP by economic activity in national currency (PDF:917KB)  (Excel:22KB)
• Table 1-6-2. Component ratio of GDP by economic activity (PDF:923KB)  (Excel:21KB)
• Table 1-7. GDP by expenditure approach (PDF:916KB)  (Excel:23KB)
• Table 1-8. GDP by production approach (PDF:921KB)  (Excel:21KB)
• Table 1-9. National savings rates (PDF:913KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 1-10. Industrial production indices (PDF:919KB)  (Excel:21KB)
• Table 1-11-1. Current account (PDF:911KB)  (Excel:15KB)
• Table 1-11-2. Trade balance (PDF:916KB)  (Excel:15KB)
• Table 1-12. Exchange rates, annual average (PDF:972KB)  (Excel:27KB)
• Table 1-13. Producer price indices (PDF:914KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 1-14. Consumer price indices (PDF:919KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 1-15. Purchasing power parities (PPPs) (PDF:914KB)  (Excel:18KB)
• Table 1-16. Comparative price levels (PDF:917KB)  (Excel:16KB)
• Table 1-17. Comparative price levels and purchasing power parities (PPPs) (PDF:937KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 1-18. Labour productivity levels (PDF:919KB)  (Excel:28KB)
• Table 1-19. Labour share (PDF:914KB)  (Excel:20KB)
• Table 1-20. Labour productivity (GDP per hour worked), annual growth rates (PDF:917KB)  (Excel:18KB)

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2. Population and Labour Force (PDF:1.8MB)

• Table 2-1. Total population (PDF:941KB)  (Excel:23KB)
• Table 2-2. Population growth rates (PDF:938KB)  (Excel:16KB)
• Table 2-3. Youth population, 0-14 years old (PDF:932KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 2-4. Working age population, 15-64 years old (PDF:938KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 2-5. Elderly population, 65 years old or over (PDF:932KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 2-6. Population by sex and age group (PDF:967KB)  (Excel:39KB)
• Table 2-7. Crude birth rates and crude death rates (PDF:931KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 2-8. Life expectancy at birth by sex (PDF:936KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 2-9. Total fertility rates (PDF:929KB)  (Excel:16KB)
• Table 2-10-1. Labour force (PDF:919KB)  (Excel:23KB)
• Table 2-10-2. Labour force by sex and age group (PDF:961KB)  (Excel:38KB)
• Table 2-11-1. Labour force participation rates (PDF:945KB)  (Excel:36KB)
• Table 2-11-2. Labour force participation rates by sex and age group (PDF:964KB)  (Excel:40KB)
• Table 2-12-1. Employment (PDF:914KB)  (Excel:23KB)
• Table 2-12-2. Employment by sex and age group (PDF:966KB)  (Excel:38KB)
• Table 2-13-1. Employment rates (PDF:942KB)  (Excel:37KB)
• Table 2-13-2. Employment rates by sex and age group (PDF:959KB)  (Excel:41KB)
• Table 2-14. Stock of foreign population (PDF:937KB)  (Excel:20KB)

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3. Employment Structure (PDF:2.0MB)

• Table 3-1. Employment by economic activity (PDF:1,068KB)  (Excel:107KB)
• Table 3-2. Sectoral composition of employment (PDF:947KB)  (Excel:26KB)
• Table 3-3. Employees by economic activity (PDF:1,094KB)  (Excel:108KB)
• Table A. International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) (PDF:912KB)
• Table B. International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) (PDF:905KB)
• Table 3-4. Employment by occupation and sex (PDF:1,069KB)  (Excel:104KB)
• Table 3-5. Occupational composition of employment (PDF:914KB)  (Excel:18KB)
• Table 3-6. Women's share of managerial employment (PDF:919KB)  (Excel:22KB)
• Table 3-7. Employment by professional status (PDF:944KB)  (Excel:32KB)
• Table 3-8. Part-time employment as a proportion of total employment (PDF:945KB)  (Excel:31KB)
• Table 3-9. Gender share of part-time employment (PDF:911KB)  (Excel:20KB)
• Table 3-10. Share of temporary employment (PDF:922KB)  (Excel:15KB)
• Table 3-11. Share of temporary employment by sex and age group (PDF:912KB)  (Excel:15KB)
• Table 3-12. Temporary agency workers as a proportion of total workforce (PDF:945KB)  (Excel:23KB)
• Table 3-13-1. Composition of employees by length of service (PDF:930KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 3-13-2. Length of service by sex and age group (PDF:947KB)  (Excel:16KB)
• Table 3-14. Youth's views on job changes (PDF:913KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 3-15. Retirement age of older persons (PDF:917KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 3-16. Public employment security services (PDF:907KB) in Japanese
• Table 3-17. Temporary employment agency services (PDF:954KB) in Japanese
• Table 3-18. Age-based legal mechanisms including mandatory retirement age (PDF:931KB) in Japanese

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4. Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance and Employment Adjustment (PDF:1.5MB)

• Table 4-1. Unemployment rates (PDF:915KB)  (Excel:24KB)
• Table 4-2-1. Unemployment by age group (all persons) (PDF:946KB)  (Excel:26KB)
• Table 4-2-2. Unemployment by age group (male) (PDF:946KB)  (Excel:26KB)
• Table 4-2-3. Unemployment by age group (female) (PDF:946KB)  (Excel:26KB)
• Table 4-3. Unemployment rates by age group (PDF:917KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 4-4. Incidence of long-term unemployment among total unemployment (PDF:942KB)  (Excel:34KB)
• Table 4-5. Incidence of unemployment by duration (PDF:912KB)  (Excel:24KB)
• Table 4-6. Definitions of unemployed (PDF:962KB) in Japanese
• Table 4-7. Unemployment insurance schemes (PDF:960KB) in Japanese
• Table 4-8. Number of persons receiving unemployment benefit (PDF:934KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 4-9. Reemployment support programmes, employment adjustment subsidies (PDF:955KB) in Japanese

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5. Wages and Labour Costs (PDF:1.6MB)

• Table 5-1. Hourly wages, manufacturing (PDF:932KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 5-2. Wages, manufacturing (PDF:918KB)  (Excel:22KB)
• Table 5-3. Wages by economic activity (PDF:924KB)  (Excel:23KB)
• Table 5-4. Annual hourly earnings indices, manufacturing (PDF:945KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 5-5. Earnings gap between full-time and part-time workers (PDF:945KB)  (Excel:15KB)
• Table 5-6. Unit labour costs (PDF:919KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 5-7. Competitive positions: relative unit labour costs (PDF:929KB)  (Excel:18KB)
• Table 5-8. Labour costs, manufacturing (PDF:936KB)  (Excel:16KB)
• Table 5-9. Structure of labour costs as a percentage of total costs, manufacturing (PDF:943KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 5-10. Gender wage gap in median earnings of full-time employees (PDF:918KB)  (Excel:18KB)
• Table 5-11-1. Wage gap by age group (total type of workers) (PDF:931KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 5-11-2. Wage gap by age group (production workers) (PDF:918KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 5-11-3. Wage gap by age group (supervisory, clerical and technical workers) (PDF:913KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 5-12. Wage gap by length of service (PDF:947KB)  (Excel:30KB)
• Table 5-13. Wage gap by establishment size (PDF:936KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 5-14. Gini coefficients of income inequality (PDF:921KB)  (Excel:23KB)
• Table 5-15. Income share by quintiles (PDF:936KB)  (Excel:17KB)
• Table 5-16. Percentage of people with an income below 50% of median income (PDF:925KB)  (Excel:24KB)
• Table 5-17. Minimum wage-fixing mechanisms (PDF:1,021KB) in Japanese
• Table 5-18. Changes in the minimum wage (PDF:916KB)  (Excel:18KB)

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6. Hours of Work and Working-time Arrangements (PDF:1.3MB)

• Table 6-1. Average annual hours actually worked per person in employment (PDF:979KB)  (Excel:33KB)
• Table 6-2. Hours of work per week (PDF:950KB)  (Excel:34KB)
• Table 6-3. Proportion of workers working 49 hours or more per week (PDF:966KB)  (Excel:39KB)
• Table 6-4. Number of annual holidays (PDF:931KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 6-5. Legal holidays (PDF:914KB) in Japanese
• Table 6-6. Working-time and paid leave arrangements (PDF:999KB) in Japanese

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7. Trade Union, Industrial Relations and Occupational Accidents (PDF:1.2MB)

• Table 7-1. Trade union membership (PDF:965KB)  (Excel:20KB)
• Table 7-2. Trade union density rates (PDF:931KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 7-3. Number of labour disputes, workers involved and days lost (PDF:955KB)  (Excel:25KB)
• Table 7-4. Number of workers injured due to occupational accidents and days lost (PDF:939KB)  (Excel:29KB)
• Table 7-5. Incidence rates of occupational accidents (PDF:938KB)  (Excel:17KB)

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8. Education and Human Resources Development (PDF:1.3MB)

• Table 8-1-1. Entry rates to tertiary education (PDF:915KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 8-1-2. Entry rates to tertiary education by level of education (PDF:920KB)  (Excel:20KB)
• Table 8-2-1. School system, Japan (PDF:914KB)  (Excel:29KB) in Japanese
• Table 8-2-2. School system, USA (PDF:921KB)  (Excel:26KB) in Japanese
• Table 8-2-3. School system, UK (PDF:920KB)  (Excel:31KB) in Japanese
• Table 8-2-4. School system, Germany (PDF:925KB)  (Excel:31KB) in Japanese
• Table 8-2-5. School system, France (PDF:914KB)  (Excel:30KB) in Japanese
• Table 8-2-6. School system, China (PDF:922KB)  (Excel:35KB) in Japanese
• Table 8-2-7. School system, Republic of Korea (PDF:912KB)  (Excel:27KB) in Japanese
• Table 8-3. Career development and job-search assistance for youth (PDF:1,000KB) in Japanese

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9. Worklife and Welfare (PDF:1.5MB)

• Table 9-1. Composition of households and NPISH, resources side/uses side (PDF:946KB)  (Excel:23KB)
• Table 9-2. Domestic final consumption expenditure of households per capita (PDF:951KB)  (Excel:31KB)
• Table 9-3-1. Household income and expenditure by age group of householder (Japan) (PDF:946KB)  (Excel:23KB)
• Table 9-3-2. Household income and expenditure by age group of householder (USA) (PDF:933KB)  (Excel:19KB)
• Table 9-3-3. Household income and expenditure by age group of householder (UK) (PDF:940KB)  (Excel:20KB)
• Table 9-3-4. Household income and expenditure by age group of householder (Germany) (PDF:932KB)  (Excel:16KB)
• Table 9-4. Tax and social security burden as a percentage of national income (PDF:914KB)  (Excel:14KB)
• Table 9-5. Public social expenditure by policy area (PDF:913KB)  (Excel:94KB)
• Table 9-6. Public expenditure on labour market programmes as a percentage of GDP (PDF:922KB)  (Excel:25KB)
• Table 9-7. Employer-employee social security rates (PDF:920KB)  (Excel:23KB)
• Table 9-8. Public assistance systems (PDF:992KB) in Japanese
• Table 9-9. Childcare leave schemes (PDF:957KB) in Japanese
• Table 9-10. Financial support for childcare, including child benefits (PDF:951KB) in Japanese
• Table 9-11. Average minutes spent in different activities (PDF:912KB)  (Excel:18KB)
• Table 9-12. Gender Inequality Index (GII) (PDF:921KB)  (Excel:18KB)

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