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Trade union density rate

ILOSTAT ILR_TUMT_NOC_RT. Trade union density rate (Percentage).

Coverage
139 of 251 countries
Latest data
2020
Series
139
Unit
Percentage
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
ilo-ilr-tumt-noc-rt-pt
Interva ID
ilo-ilr-tumt-noc-rt-pt

Recency

aging

data to 2020; catalog to 2025

Provenance

1 step

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

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Recency

50%

Latest observation is 2020; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 5 year(s) behind (aging).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

100%

58 of 139 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 139 of the 251 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 7 observations; the earliest begins in 2000.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-08.

By country

Trade union density rate for each of the 139 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Botswana202029.96Percentage
Canada202029.39Percentage
Ireland202025.39Percentage
Korea, Republic of202012.37Percentage
Malta202041.89Percentage
Mexico202012.40Percentage
New Zealand202018.89Percentage
Philippines20208.49Percentage
United States202010.29Percentage
Afghanistan201916.77Percentage

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as ILO declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Labour Organization

    ILOSTAT DF_ILR_TUMT_NOC_RT; national surveys and records, the source named per figure in ILOSTAT, not per indicator

    declared by ilo in dataflow

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

ILO (2026). Trade union density rate. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/ilo-ilr-tumt-noc-rt-pt (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-ilo-ilr-tumt-noc-rt-pt,
  title        = {Trade union density rate},
  author       = {ILO},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/ilo-ilr-tumt-noc-rt-pt}},
  note         = {Interva dataset ilo-ilr-tumt-noc-rt-pt; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
  urldate      = {2026-11-08}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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