smallest working population. This was followed by Switzerland at 82 percent and Sweden at 81.2 percent.
This statistic displays the employment rates of European countries shown as a percentage of the total population of each European country in 2016. Iceland has the highest rate of employment in Europe with 87.8 percent of the total population in work, despite having the Total employment as a percentage of total population in Europe in 2016, by country
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