electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-pop-xwap-sex-edu-lms-nb-working-age-population-by-sex-education-and-labour

Working-age population by sex, education and labour market status (thousands) | Asia (ILOSTAT)

🌏 65,928 observations · 38 Asia countries · 1970–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 65,928 observations of Population data across 38 Asia countries, spanning 1970–2025, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

ILOSTAT is the ILO's central statistics database, the leading global source for labour statistics. It compiles indicators across employment, unemployment, wages, working time, child labour, informal economy, social protection, occupational injuries, and SDG decent work targets — drawing on national labour force surveys, household income surveys, establishment surveys, and administrative records. Coverage spans 200+ economies, with the ILO's Department of Statistics responsible for harmonisation.

• Source: ILOSTAT
• Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO)
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Population

Methodology

Data pulled directly from the ILOSTAT REST API at https://rplumber.ilo.org/data/indicator?id=POP_XWAP_SEX_EDU_LMS_NB and filtered to Asia ISO3 country codes. ILOSTAT harmonises raw survey microdata using ICLS (International Conference of Labour Statisticians) definitions; sources are flagged in the source.label column for traceability.

Geographic coverage

38 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
IDN	4,982	1990	2023
PSE	4,380	2000	2025
CYP	4,190	1999	2024
IRN	4,018	2005	2024
KOR	3,979	2000	2025
KHM	3,441	1996	2023
MNG	3,122	2000	2024
PAK	2,884	2005	2025
THA	2,766	2000	2024
VNM	2,745	2010	2024
GEO	2,623	2009	2024
ARM	2,594	2001	2023
ISR	2,424	2012	2024
IND	2,405	1994	2025
LKA	2,334	2010	2024
...	23 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• POP_XWAP_SEX_EDU_LMS_NB — Working-age population by sex, education and labour market status (thousands)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
ref_area	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code	AFG
ref_area.label	string	Country name in English	Afghanistan
source	string	ILOSTAT source code (e.g. labour force survey)	BA:15715
source.label	string	Source name in English	LFS - Labour Force Survey
indicator	string	ILOSTAT indicator code	POP_XWAP_SEX_EDU_LMS_NB
indicator.label	string	Indicator name in English	Working-age population by sex, educat…
sex	string	Disaggregation by sex (SEX_T = total, SEX_M = male, SEX_F = female)	SEX_T
sex.label	string	—	Total
classif1	string	First classification variable (age, education, status, etc.)	EDU_AGGREGATE_TOTAL
classif1.label	string	—	Education (Aggregate levels): Total
classif2	string	Second classification variable where applicable	LMS_STATUS_TOTAL
classif2.label	string	—	Labour market status: Total
time	int64	Observation year	2021
obs_value	float64	Observed indicator value (unit varies — see indicator definition)	16372.131
obs_status	string	Observation status flag (e.g. provisional, unreliable)	U
obs_status.label	string	—	Unreliable
note_classif	string	—	C6:1042
note_classif.label	string	—	Nonstandard age group: Excluding ages…
note_indicator	string	—	I11:264
note_indicator.label	string	—	Break in series: Methodology revised
note_source	string	—	R1:3513_S3:8
note_source.label	string	—	Repository: ILO-STATISTICS - Micro da…

Disaggregation dimensions

The following columns provide disaggregation dimensions:

• sex (4 unique values): SEX_T, SEX_M, SEX_F, SEX_O

Data quality & caveats

• Data is annual frequency. Some indicators also publish monthly or quarterly series — those are not included here.
• When an indicator has multiple sources for the same country×year, the ILO-selected 'best source' is used.
• Disaggregation columns (sex, classif1, classif2) are non-null only when the indicator publishes that breakdown.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-pop-xwap-sex-edu-lms-nb-working-age-population-by-sex-education-and-labour")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["ref_area"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator"] == "POP_XWAP_SEX_EDU_LMS_NB"]
          .sort_values("time"))
sample.plot(x="time", y="obs_value", title="POP_XWAP_SEX_EDU_LMS_NB")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator"] == "POP_XWAP_SEX_EDU_LMS_NB"]
          .pivot_table(index="time", columns="ref_area", values="obs_value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{asia_ilo_pop_xwap_sex_edu_lms_nb_working_age_population_by_sex_education_and_labour_2025,
  title        = {Working-age population by sex, education and labour market status (thousands) | Asia (ILOSTAT)},
  author       = {International Labour Organization (ILO)},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=POP_XWAP_SEX_EDU_LMS_NB},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-pop-xwap-sex-edu-lms-nb-working-age-population-by-sex-education-and-labour}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © International Labour Organization (ILO). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepasia

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Provenance: ingested 2026-05-25 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=POP_XWAP_SEX_EDU_LMS_NB