Countries With the Lowest Active Labour Market Spending

Every country with a figure for active labour market spending, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Mexico (0.001%), Turkiye (0.014%) and Romania (0.042%). The middle country of the 42 has 0.397%.

What this measures

Public spending on active labour market programmes, in % of GDP. Source: OECD. For this measure, no agreed better direction.

Training, help finding jobs, wage subsidies and jobs created by government: spending on getting people into work rather than supporting them while out of it.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2019–2023. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on active labour market spending

• Countries With the Highest Active Labour Market Spending
• Active labour market spending by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest Unemployment Benefit Spending
• Countries With the Lowest Retirement Age, Men
• Countries With the Lowest Retirement Age, Women
• Countries With the Lowest Hours Worked
• Countries With the Lowest Informal Employment
• Countries With the Lowest Unemployment
• Countries With the Lowest Female Labor Participation
• Countries With the Lowest Male Labor Participation

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.