Part-Time Employment Rate (%) - SL.TLF.PART.ZS

Data - WDI

Author

François Geerolf

Last observation: 2025 (N = 38)

First observation: 1976 (N = 1)

Last data update: 04 sept. 2026, 00:28

Last compile: 04 sept. 2026, 00:43

Nobs - Javascript

Code 
SL.TLF.PART.ZS |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  group_by(iso2c, Iso2c) |>
  
  mutate(value = round(value/(10^9))) %>%
  summarise(Nobs = n(),
            `Year 1` = first(year),
            `GDP 1 (Bn)` = first(value) %>% paste0("$ ", .),
            `Year 2` = last(year),
            `GDP 2 (Bn)` = last(value) %>% paste0("$ ", .)) |>
  arrange(-Nobs) |>
  mutate(Flag = gsub(" ", "-", str_to_lower(Iso2c)),
         Flag = paste0('<img src="../../bib/flags/vsmall/', Flag, '.png" alt="Flag">')) |>
  select(Flag, everything()) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F, escape = F) else .}

Germany, France, Italy, Spain

Code 
SL.TLF.PART.ZS |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("DE", "FR", "IT", "ES", "GB")) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  mutate(value = value/100) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + xlab("") + ylab("% of World GDP") +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 100, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

US, Euro Area

All

Code 
SL.TLF.PART.ZS |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("US", "XC")) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  mutate(value = value/100) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "XC", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + xlab("") +
  ylab("Taux d'emploi à temps partiel (% de l'emploi total)") +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 100, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

1999-

Code 
SL.TLF.PART.ZS |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("US", "XC")) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  mutate(value = value/100) |>
  filter(date >= as.Date("1999-01-01")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "XC", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + xlab("") +
  ylab("Part de l'emploi à temps partiel (% de l'emploi total)") +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = c(seq(1999, 2100, 5), seq(1997, 2100, 5)) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 100, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

France, Germany, Euro area, US

All

Code 
SL.TLF.PART.ZS |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("US", "XC", "FR", "DE")) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  mutate(value = value/100) |>
  #filter(date >= as.Date("1999-01-01")) %>%
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "XC", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + xlab("") +
  ylab("Taux d'emploi à temps partiel (%)") +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = c(seq(1949, 2100, 5), seq(1947, 2100, 5)) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 100, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

1999-

Code 
SL.TLF.PART.ZS |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("US", "XC", "FR", "DE")) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  mutate(value = value/100) |>
  filter(date >= as.Date("1999-01-01")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "XC", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + xlab("") +
  ylab("Taux d'emploi à temps partiel (%)") +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = c(seq(1999, 2100, 5), seq(1997, 2100, 5)) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 100, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))