Regions
Regions
Employment-protection coverage grouped by world region — Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Middle East & Africa.
Browse employment protection scores by world region. Compare average scores and explore country-level data from ILO EPLex, World Bank B-READY, and OECD EPL across 145 countries and billions of workers. See our methodology.
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Americas
25 countries
EPLex: 15
B-READY: 13
OECD: 23
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Asia-Pacific
33 countries
EPLex: 21
B-READY: 26
OECD: 10
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Europe
43 countries
EPLex: 31
B-READY: 29
OECD: 35
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Middle East & Africa
44 countries
EPLex: 28
B-READY: 33
OECD: 4
Data from ILO EPLex (2020), World Bank B-READY (2025), and OECD EPL (2019). Counts show how many countries in each region have data from each source.