Economic Outlook 119 — Trend employment coefficient by country

The OECD Economic Outlook presents the OECD’s analysis of the major global economic trends and prospects for the next two years. The Outlook puts forward a consistent set of projections for output, employment, government spending, prices and current balances based on a review of each member country and of the...

Countries reporting
29
Highest
1.76
Luxembourg
Lowest
0.9846
Belgium
Median
1.04
Years covered
43
1985–2027
Data points
1,444

What the numbers show

Economic Outlook 119 — Trend employment coefficient is currently reported for 29 countries. The highest value is 1.76 in Luxembourg; the lowest is 0.9846 in Belgium.

The median across all reporting countries is 1.04, and the mean is 1.07.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Over the past decade 15 countries rose and 12 fell. The largest increase was in Bulgaria (up 9.1%), and the largest decrease in Romania (down 4.8%).

Economic Outlook 119 — Trend employment coefficient: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Luxembourg 1.76 2027 up 3.9% rising
2 Bulgaria 1.23 2027 up 9.1% flat
3 Greece 1.21 2027 down 0.2% rising
4 Denmark 1.11 2027 up 2.8% rising
5 Italy 1.11 2027 up 0.9% rising
6 Switzerland 1.1 2027 up 1.4% flat
7 Germany 1.09 2027 down 0.9% flat
8 Romania 1.08 2027 down 4.8% falling
9 Israel 1.07 2027 down 0.1% flat
10 Austria 1.05 2027 up 1.4% flat
11 Finland 1.05 2027 up 0.9% rising
12 France 1.05 2027 up 0.3% rising
13 Czechia 1.05 2027 down 0.5% flat
14 United States of America 1.04 2027 up 1.2% flat
15 Sweden 1.04 2027 up 1.7% flat
16 Norway 1.04 2027 up 1.3% flat
17 Hungary 1.03 2027 up 3.2% flat
18 Portugal 1.02 2027 down 2.9% flat
19 Spain 1.01 2027 down 1.7% falling
20 Japan 1 2027 down 0.0% flat
20 Australia 1 2027 unchanged flat
20 Chile 1 2027 down 0.0% flat
20 Iceland 1 2027 unchanged flat
20 Canada 1 2027 down 0.0% flat
20 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1 2027 up 0.0% flat
26 Ireland 0.9983 2027 down 0.1% flat
27 New Zealand 0.9905 2027 up 0.1% flat
28 Mexico 0.9854 2027 down 0.2% flat
29 Belgium 0.9846 2027 up 0.1% flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Economic Outlook 119 — Trend employment coefficient
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
38 places, 1,444 data points, 1985–2027
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The OECD Economic Outlook presents the OECD’s analysis of the major global economic trends and prospects for the next two years. The Outlook puts forward a consistent set of projections for output, employment, government spending, prices and current balances based on a review of each member country and of the induced effect on each of them on international developments. OECD (2026), OECD Economic Outlook No 119 (Edition 2026/1) EO119 Database documentation EO119 Last historical points gdp inflation cpi population unemployment real gdp gdp per capita employment OECD Economic Outlook website: https://www.oecd.org/economic-outlook/ Contact: eco.outlook@oecd.org Keywords: Outlook, forecasts, forecast, GDP