Labor > Employment > Part-time employment > Incidence of part-time employment per million: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Part-time employment refers to persons who usually work less than 30 hours per week in their main job. Both employees and the self-employed may be part-time workers.

Employment is generally measured through household labour force surveys and, according to the ILO Guidelines, employed persons are defined as those aged 15 or over who report that they have worked in gainful employment for at least one hour in the previous week. The rates shown here refer to the numbers of persons who usually work less than 30 hours per week as a percentage of the total number of those in employment. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Iceland	64.09%	2009
2	Luxembourg	24.97%	2009
3	New Zealand	5.15%	2009
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	4.54%	2009
4	Norway	4.19%	2009
5	Ireland	4.05%	2009
6	Switzerland	3.15%	2009
7	Denmark	2.92%	2009
8	Netherlands	1.94%	2009
9	Finland	1.94%	2009
10	Belgium	1.76%	2009
11	Sweden	1.51%	2009
12	Austria	1.46%	2009
13	Australia	1.11%	2009
14	Portugal	0.883%	2009
15	Canada	0.537%	2009
16	Greece	0.483%	2009
17	United Kingdom	0.372%	2009
18	Slovakia	0.342%	2009
19	Poland	0.336%	2009
20	Czech Republic	0.308%	2009
21	Hungary	0.285%	2009
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	0.248%	2009
22	France	0.22%	2009
23	Germany	0.215%	2009
24	Italy	0.203%	2009
25	Spain	0.168%	2009
26	Japan	0.148%	2009
27	South Korea	0.143%	2009
28	Turkey	0.131%	2009
29	Mexico	0.116%	2009
30	United States	0.0412%	2009

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