Report: A Chartbook Of International Labor Comparisons: The Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe — June 2007
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Section 1. Gross Domestic Product Per Capita
- 1.1 - Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, 2005
- 1.2 - Average annual growth rates for real GDP per capita, 1995-2005
Section 2. Labor Market Indicators
- 2.1 - Size of the labor force, 2005
- 2.2 - Average annual growth rates for the labor force, 1995-2005
- 2.3 - Labor force participation rates by sex, 2005
- 2.4 - Labor force participation rates for youth, 2005
- 2.5 - Labor force participation rates for older workers, 2005
- 2.6 - Employment as a percent of the working-age population, 2005
- 2.7 - Average annual growth rates for employment, 1995-2005
- 2.8 - Average annual growth rates for full-time and part-time employment, 1995-2005
- 2.9 - Annual hours worked per employed person, 1995 and 2005
- 2.10 - Unemployment rates, 2005
- 2.11 - Unemployment rates for youth, 2005
- 2.12 - Ratio of youth to adult unemployment rates, 2005
- 2.13 - Persons unemployed one year or longer, 2005
- 2.14 - Ratio of unemployment rate of persons without high school degrees to that of persons with college or university degrees, 2004
- 2.15 - Educational attainment of the adult population, 2004
Section 3. Competitiveness Indicators for Manufacturing
- 3.1 - Hourly compensation costs, 2005
- 3.2 - Average annual growth rates for hourly compensation costs, 1995-2005
- 3.3 - Employer social insurance expenditures and other labor taxes as a percent of hourly compensation costs, 2005
- 3.4 - Average annual growth rates for manufacturing productivity, 1995-2005
- 3.5 - Average annual growth rates for manufacturing output and hours worked, 1995-2005
- 3.6 - Average annual growth rates for manufacturing unit labor costs, 1995-2005
- 3.7 - Manufacturing output as a percent of
world manufacturing output, 2005
Section 4. Other Economic Indicators
- 4.1 - Public expenditures on labor market programs as a percent of GDP, 2004-05
- 4.2 - Measures of regulation on labor and product markets, 2003
- 4.3 - Share of labor costs taken by tax and social security contributions, 2005
- 4.4 - Dependency ratios, 2005 and projections to 2025
- 4.5 - Trade in goods as a percent of GDP, 2005
Section 5. Indicators for Large Emerging Economies
- 5.1 - World population distribution, 2005
- 5.2 - Age composition of the population, 2005
- 5.3 - Dependency ratios, 2005 and projections to 2025
- 5.4 - GDP per capita, 2005
- 5.5 - GDP per employed person, 1995 and 2004
- 5.6 - Labor force participation rates by sex, 2005
- 5.7 - Trade in goods as a percent of GDP, 2005
- 5.8 - Manufacturing output as a percent of world manufacturing output, 2005
Appendix A - Definitions, Sources, and Methods - Introduction
- Gross Domestic Product (charts 1.1, 1.2, 5.4, 5.5)
- Labor market indicators (charts 2.1-2.15, 5.6)
- Competitiveness indicators for manufacturing (charts 3.1-3.7 and 5.8)
- Public expenditures on labor market programs as a percent of GDP (chart 4.1)
- Measures of regulation on labor and product markets (chart 4.2)
- Share of labor costs taken by tax and social security contributions (chart 4.3)
- Population (charts 4.4, 5.1-5.3)
- Trade in goods as a percent of GDP (charts 4.5 and 5.7)
