Development and Globalization: - Unctad

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Participation of women in total economically active population [1]
(in %)
World Developing
Africa
Developing
America
Total economically active population [2]
Share by sector in % and total in thousands
Regions
Developing
Asia
Developing
Oceania
Selected labour topics 1.2 D
Central and
Eastern Europe
Developed
countries
1960
1970
1980
1990
2002
1970 1990
Total agriculture industry services Total agriculture industry services
World 1 655 195 56.2 19.2 24.6 2 504 201 48.9 20.0 31.1
Developing countries 1 192 072 71.3 11.9 16.8 1 936 977 60.6 16.1 23.3
Africa 158 677 75.8 8.9 15.3 265 398 62.8 11.1 26.1
North Africa 28 344 63.2 13.3 23.5 48 769 42.9 21.8 35.3
Sub-Saharan Africa 130 333 78.5 8.0 13.5 216 629 67.3 8.6 24.1
Sub-Saharan Africa less South Africa 121 945 81.8 6.5 11.8 202 309 71.1 7.0 21.9
America 95 145 42.0 22.2 35.8 174 833 25.4 23.6 51.0
Central America and the Caribbean 29 478 45.8 21.2 33.0 54 942 30.0 23.3 46.7
South America 65 667 40.4 22.6 37.0 119 891 23.3 23.8 52.9
Asia 936 758 73.5 11.3 15.2 1 494 452 64.3 16.1 19.6
West Asia 35 346 60.2 17.2 22.6 63 627 38.1 21.0 41.0
Central Asia 17 758 35.3 27.4 37.3 28 531 29.5 28.8 41.7
South, East and South-East Asia 883 654 74.8 10.8 14.4 1 402 294 66.1 15.7 18.2
South, East and South-East Asia less China 455 345 71.5 11.4 17.2 718 172 60.3 16.2 23.4
Oceania 1 492 82.4 6.0 11.7 2 294 75.3 7.5 17.2
Countries in Central and Eastern Europe 154 853 28.7 38.7 32.6 173 792 18.0 40.5 41.5
Developed countries 308 270 11.5 37.8 50.8 393 432 5.3 30.0 64.8
North America 98 127 4.6 32.3 63.1 142 716 2.9 25.9 71.2
Europe 149 265 13.2 42.6 44.2 174 725 6.4 32.0 61.6
Others
Memorandum
60 878 18.3 34.7 47.0 75 991 7.1 33.0 59.9
Developing countries less China 763 763 67.4 12.8 19.8 1 252 855 54.2 16.7 29.2
Least developed countries 172 756 82.5 6.2 11.3 270 402 71.3 8.6 20.0
Female economically active population [2]
Participation of women in the employment sector in %
Regions
1970 1990
Total agriculture industry services Total agriculture industry services
World 37.8 41.1 27.7 38.2 39.9 42.7 31.0 41.4
Developing countries 37.2 40.9 26.0 29.5 38.9 42.9 31.1 34.0
Africa 40.0 44.5 15.9 32.1 39.9 46.4 17.7 33.6
North Africa 26.0 33.7 11.3 13.7 27.5 40.5 15.3 19.1
Sub-Saharan Africa 43.1 46.3 17.6 39.1 42.7 47.2 19.0 38.4
Sub-Saharan Africa less South Africa 43.8 46.7 19.5 36.8 43.1 47.5 19.7 36.2
America 23.5 14.3 18.9 37.3 32.5 16.9 21.9 45.3
Central America and the Caribbean 23.0 13.8 18.8 38.6 31.3 14.8 25.3 45.0
South America 23.7 14.5 19.0 36.7 33.1 18.1 20.3 45.4
Asia 38.1 41.8 28.8 27.1 39.5 43.5 34.3 30.6
West Asia 27.2 37.2 14.4 10.6 25.4 43.1 12.1 15.8
Central Asia 47.0 50.5 35.0 52.5 45.5 42.7 35.4 54.4
South, East and South-East Asia 38.4 41.9 29.4 26.9 40.0 43.5 35.6 31.0
South, East and South-East Asia less China 35.3 39.5 28.1 22.2 35.3 39.2 32.0 27.6
Oceania 38.7 43.1 5.6 24.7 39.7 44.6 18.6 27.6
Countries in Central and Eastern Europe 47.8 50.3 38.2 57.0 47.2 39.9 39.1 58.4
Developed countries 35.2 35.2 24.3 43.3 41.8 35.4 26.0 49.7
North America 35.9 17.1 22.9 44.0 44.3 22.5 25.6 52.0
Europe 33.5 30.7 23.7 43.8 40.6 36.3 24.3 49.5
Others 38.0 50.6 28.2 40.4 40.0 43.3 30.2 45.0
Memorandum
Developing countries less China 34.7 38.8 23.8 27.9 35.6 39.7 26.8 33.1
Least developed countries 42.6 45.1 29.7 30.8 42.3 46.8 31.5 31.2
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