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LAC Equity Lab: Workers

Between 2016 and 2024, Latin America and the Caribbean generated approximately 27 million net new jobs. During this period, employment in the region went through notable transformations across both labor market segments and demographic groups.

This dashboard enables users to explore these changes by examining the working-age population (15+) and the characteristics of the employed population. It provides breakdowns by age, educational attainment, area of residence, and other relevant dimensions to enable a deeper understanding of these indicators across population groups.


Educational attainment is measured as follows:

Low: Never attended, Completed primary and Incomplete secondary.

Middle: Completed secondary and Incomplete higher education.

High: Completed higher education.

The Labor Database for Latin America and the Caribbean - LABLAC (CEDLAS and the World Bank) is a harmonization project that seeks to mitigate differences arising from country-specific survey design and thus foment comparable indicators between LAC countries. However, methodological changes in the underlying surveys may result in non-comparable data that the harmonization process cannot fully solve. It is important that the user knows what data is and is not comparable. For more information, visit the LABLAC: comparability dashboard.

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