Latin America & Caribbean's part time employment, female (% of total female employment) was 37.43% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 0.76 percentage points from 38.2% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 37.43% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 45.93% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 38.2% | 2015 |
| Highest | 45.93% | 2020 |
| Lowest | 36.36% | 2023 |
| Average since 2016 | 39.33% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 39.32% | 2012 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Latin America & Caribbean's part time employment, female (% of total female employment) fell 0.8 percentage points on 2024 (from 38.23% to 37.43%).
Across the 12 yearly changes before that (2013 to 2024), the average change was −0.09 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.68 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 5.43 percentage points in 2020 and the biggest yearly fall was 5.19 percentage points in 2021. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 3% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
What this measures
Part-time employment rate represents the percentage of employment that is part time. Part time employment in this series is based on a common definition of less than 35 actual weekly hours worked.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 14 values
| Year | Part time employment, female (% of total female employment) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.43 |
| 2024 | 38.23 |
| 2023 | 36.36 |
| 2022 | 38.67 |
| 2021 | 40.74 |
| 2020 | 45.93 |
| 2019 | 40.5 |
| 2018 | 40.16 |
| 2017 | 38.63 |
| 2016 | 36.68 |
| 2015 |
Part time employment, female (% of total female employment) in nearby economies
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 16.65% (2024)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 41.66% (2024)
- Israel — 43.65% (2024)
- Malta — 42.91% (2024)
- Pakistan — 30.53% (2025)
- West Bank and Gaza — 32.41% (2025)
More social protection & labor data for Latin America & Caribbean
- Net migration — -401,848 (2025)
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum — 540,170 (2025)
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin — 1.02 million (2025)
- Labor force participation rate, total (% of total population ages 15+) (national estimate) — 63.42% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15+) (national estimate) — 52.48% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate, male (% of male population ages 15+) (national estimate) — 75.36% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, female (%) (modeled ILO estimate)
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Questions people ask
- What is Latin America & Caribbean's part time employment, female (% of total female employment)?
- 37.43% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2012?
- It is down 1.89 percentage points from 39.32% in 2012. The highest value was 45.93% in 2020 and the lowest 36.36% in 2023.
- Is the latest change in part time employment, female (% of total female employment) unusual for Latin America & Caribbean?
- In 2025, Latin America & Caribbean's part time employment, female (% of total female employment) fell 0.8 percentage points on 2024 (from 38.23% to 37.43%). Across the 12 yearly changes before that (2013 to 2024), the average change was −0.09 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.68 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SL.TLF.PART.FE.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Wages and Working Time Statistics database (COND), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: September 28, 2026 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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