electricsheepeurope/europe-ilo-pop-xwap-sex-age-nb-working-age-population-by-sex-and-age-thousands

Working-age population by sex and age (thousands) | Europe (ILOSTAT)

🇪🇺 121,770 observations · 43 Europe countries · 1946–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 121,770 observations of Population data across 43 Europe countries, spanning 1946–2025, 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_NB and filtered to Europe 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

43 Europe countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
DNK	4,338	1950	2025
ESP	4,296	1950	2025
ITA	4,212	1951	2025
FRA	4,161	1962	2025
PRT	4,140	1950	2025
IRL	4,026	1961	2025
LUX	3,999	1947	2025
NLD	3,996	1960	2025
GRC	3,954	1951	2025
BEL	3,921	1947	2025
GBR	3,867	1961	2025
AUT	3,858	1961	2025
DEU	3,612	1983	2025
NOR	3,594	1946	2025
FIN	3,579	1960	2025
...	28 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• POP_XWAP_SEX_AGE_NB — Working-age population by sex and age (thousands)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
ref_area	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code	ALB
ref_area.label	string	Country name in English	Albania
source	string	ILOSTAT source code (e.g. labour force survey)	BA:480
source.label	string	Source name in English	LFS - Labour Force Survey
indicator	string	ILOSTAT indicator code	POP_XWAP_SEX_AGE_NB
indicator.label	string	Indicator name in English	Working-age population by sex and age…
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+
time	int64	Observation year	2024
obs_value	float64	Observed indicator value (unit varies — see indicator definition)	2022.424
obs_status	string	Observation status flag (e.g. provisional, unreliable)	B
obs_status.label	string	—	Break in series
note_classif	string	—	C6:1629
note_classif.label	string	—	Nonstandard age group: Including ages…
note_indicator	string	—	I11:264
note_indicator.label	string	—	Break in series: Methodology revised
note_source	string	—	R1:3513
note_source.label	string	—	Repository: ILO-STATISTICS - Micro da…

Disaggregation dimensions

The following columns provide disaggregation dimensions:

• sex (3 unique values): SEX_T, SEX_M, SEX_F

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("electricsheepeurope/europe-ilo-pop-xwap-sex-age-nb-working-age-population-by-sex-and-age-thousands")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["ref_area"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

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

Pivot to country × year matrix

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

Citation

@misc{europe_ilo_pop_xwap_sex_age_nb_working_age_population_by_sex_and_age_thousands_2025,
  title        = {Working-age population by sex and age (thousands) | Europe (ILOSTAT)},
  author       = {International Labour Organization (ILO)},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=POP_XWAP_SEX_AGE_NB},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-ilo-pop-xwap-sex-age-nb-working-age-population-by-sex-and-age-thousands}}
}

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 Europe repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Europe is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Europe 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/electricsheepeurope

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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_NB