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Proportion of informal employment, by sector and sex - 19th ICLS — 15 years old and over

Name: Proportion of informal employment, by sector and sex - 19th ICLS — 15 years old and over
Creator: United Nations SDG Global Database
Keywords: trend-research-200, un-sdg, labor-jobs-occupational-safety, proportion, informal, employment, sector, 19th, icls, years

Compare proportion of informal employment, by sector and sex - 19th icls — 15 years old and over across 54 countries using official UN SDG Global Database observations for 2024.

Source: United Nations SDG Global Database•54 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

30.4%

Median: 16.7%

Countries Covered

54

with available data

Highest

Angola

94.9%

Lowest

Slovenia

0.7%

Top 5 Countries

1Angola94.9%

2Nigeria92.8%

3Malawi91.4%

4United Republic of Tanzania89.0%

5Lesotho84.1%

By Region

Africa84.9%(3 countries)

North America75.1%(1 countries)

Asia72.7%(2 countries)

Other49.4%(19 countries)

South America39.9%(4 countries)

Key Findings

•54 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Angola has the highest published value (94.92 %).
•Slovenia has the lowest published value (0.7 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.7%)High (94.9%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 30.4%)

Africa (3)

North America (1)

Asia (2)

Other (19)

South America (4)

Europe (25)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Proportion of informal employment, by sector and sex - 19th ICLS (%).

Values use UN SDG series SL_ISV_IFEM_19ICLS, release 2026.Q2.G.01, one fixed 2024 reference year, unit Percentage, and the fixed selection Activity: No breakdown; Age: 15 years old and over; Reporting Type: Global; Sex: Both sexes. Aggregates, missing/non-finite values, other dimensions, other attributes, and non-ISO geographies are excluded; MapTheory does not impute missing countries.

Methodology

UN SDG series SL_ISV_IFEM_19ICLS; year 2024; unit PERCENT; dimensions {"Activity": "TOTAL", "Age": "15+", "Reporting Type": "G", "Sex": "BOTHSEX"}; attributes {"Nature": "C", "Units": "PERCENT"} Official UN SDG metadata for indicator 8.3.1.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Angola	94.9%
2	Nigeria	92.8%
3	Malawi	91.4%
4	United Republic of Tanzania	89.0%
5	Lesotho	84.1%
6	Rwanda	83.0%
7	Bangladesh	80.8%
8	Guatemala	75.1%
9	Zimbabwe	73.9%
10	Botswana	72.3%
11	Zambia	68.9%
12	Ecuador	67.6%
13	Egypt	67.0%
14	Vietnam	64.6%
15	El Salvador	59.7%
16	Panama	58.7%
17	Fiji	41.6%
18	Costa Rica	37.4%
19	Georgia	37.0%
20	Brazil	36.5%
21	Armenia	32.0%
22	Uruguay	28.3%
23	Chile	27.3%
24	Mongolia	26.4%
25	Brunei Darussalam	21.3%
26	Moldova, Republic of	20.4%
27	Russian Federation	19.3%
28	Seychelles	14.1%
29	Serbia	12.0%
30	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.5%
31	Portugal	4.7%
32	Slovakia	4.4%
33	Greece	3.6%
34	Italy	3.4%
35	Lithuania	3.2%
36	France	3.2%
37	Sweden	2.8%
38	Netherlands	2.6%
39	Estonia	2.4%
40	Czech Republic	2.3%
41	Romania	2.2%
42	Spain	2.2%
43	Finland	2.2%
44	Latvia	2.2%
45	Luxembourg	1.9%
46	Ireland	1.9%
47	Cyprus	1.7%
48	Switzerland	1.5%
49	Norway	1.4%
50	Belgium	1.4%
51	Austria	1.3%
52	Bulgaria	1.2%
53	Croatia	1.2%
54	Slovenia	0.7%

Showing 54 of 54 countries

Topics

#trend-research-200 #un-sdg #labor-jobs-occupational-safety #proportion #informal #employment #sector #19th #icls #years

Data Source

This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2024).

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