electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-pop-xwap-sex-age-geo-nb-working-age-population-by-sex-age-and-rural-urban

Working-age population by sex, age and rural / urban areas (thousands) | Asia (ILOSTAT)

🌏 57,595 observations · 38 Asia countries · 1970–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 57,595 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_AGE_GEO_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	4,752	1990	2023
PSE	4,416	2000	2022
CYP	3,888	1999	2025
KHM	2,892	1996	2023
ARM	2,736	2001	2024
MNG	2,736	2003	2024
VNM	2,496	2007	2024
PHL	2,496	2007	2023
PAK	2,385	2005	2025
KOR	2,304	2000	2025
GEO	2,304	2009	2024
THA	2,082	2007	2024
IND	2,076	1994	2025
LKA	2,026	2009	2024
TUR	2,016	2000	2013
...	23 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• POP_XWAP_SEX_AGE_GEO_NB — Working-age population by sex, age and rural / urban areas (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_AGE_GEO_NB
indicator.label	string	Indicator name in English	Working-age population by sex, age an…
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.)	AGE_YTHADULT_YGE15
classif1.label	string	—	Age (Youth, adults): 15+
classif2	string	Second classification variable where applicable	GEO_COV_NAT
classif2.label	string	—	Area type: National
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)	B
obs_status.label	string	—	Break in series
note_classif	string	—	C6:1053
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-age-geo-nb-working-age-population-by-sex-age-and-rural-urban")
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_AGE_GEO_NB"]
          .sort_values("time"))
sample.plot(x="time", y="obs_value", title="POP_XWAP_SEX_AGE_GEO_NB")

Pivot to country × year matrix

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

Citation

@misc{asia_ilo_pop_xwap_sex_age_geo_nb_working_age_population_by_sex_age_and_rural_urban_2025,
  title        = {Working-age population by sex, age and rural / urban areas (thousands) | Asia (ILOSTAT)},
  author       = {International Labour Organization (ILO)},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=POP_XWAP_SEX_AGE_GEO_NB},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-pop-xwap-sex-age-geo-nb-working-age-population-by-sex-age-and-rural-urban}}
}

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_AGE_GEO_NB