This data set contains the underlying data for the following publication: ‘Towards a green energy economy? Tracking the employment effects of low-carbon technologies in the European Union’, Applied Energy’. This data set contains estimated employment figures for the ‘Rest of the World’ (RoW), as defined by the World Input–Output Database (http://www.wiod.org/home). This is aggregate data for countries outside of the 27 EU Member States and 13 other major countries covered by the database.