Women's employment rate by age (M-shaped curve)

Name: Women's employment rate by age (M-shaped curve)
Creator: OECD

OECDPeriod 2016~2025Retrieved 2026-11-09

Women's employment rate by age. The dip in the 30s and later rise — the 'M curve' — shows career interruptions.

2016: 69.32% → 2025: 73.63% (up 4.3 pp). Highest: 2024 (74.51%).

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Women's employment rate by age (M-shaped curve) · 2016~2025 (unit: %)
Year	25–29	30–34	35–39	40–44	45–49	50–54
2016	69.322	59.948	56.526	62.869	68.539	65.896
2017	69.599	61.033	58.09	61.825	69.682	66.302
2018	70.885	62.466	59.202	62.222	68.719	66.767
2019	71.096	64.63	59.869	62.702	67.369	68.024
2020	68.738	64.513	58.56	61.414	65.955	65.492
2021	70.88	65.666	57.487	61.494	66.29	67.104
2022	73.947	68.478	60.46	63.499	65.892	68.881
2023	74.324	71.272	64.682	64.663	67.425	69.0
2024	74.51	73.461	68.922	65.241	68.651	68.969
2025	73.627	75.092	70.972	67.169	69.91	69.325

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OECD. (2026). Employment and unemployment by five-year age group and sex - indicators: Korea [Data set]. OECD Data Explorer. Retrieved November 9, 2026, from https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_LFS%40DF_LFS_INDIC&df[ag]=OECD.ELS.SAE

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