economic2025

Vulnerable employment share

Name: Vulnerable employment share
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, vulnerable-employment

Compare vulnerable employment share across 181 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source slice.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•181 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

34.8% of total employment

Median: 29.0% of total employment

Countries Covered

181

with available data

Highest

Chad

90.2% of total employment

Lowest

Qatar

0.5% of total employment

Top 5 Countries

1Chad90.2% of total employment

2Sierra Leone86.0% of total employment

3Madagascar84.4% of total employment

4Ethiopia84.1% of total employment

5Niger83.7% of total employment

By Region

Key Findings

•181 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2025 observation.
•Chad has the highest published value (90.224285798179 % of total employment).
•Qatar has the lowest published value (0.455955577569801 % of total employment).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.5% of total employment)High (90.2% of total employment)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 34.8% of total employment)

About This Statistic

Vulnerable employment is contributing family workers and own-account workers as a percentage of total employment.

MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.

Methodology

Vulnerable employment is contributing family workers and own-account workers as a percentage of total employment.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Chad	90.2% of total employment
2	Sierra Leone	86.0% of total employment
3	Madagascar	84.4% of total employment
4	Ethiopia	84.1% of total employment
5	Niger	83.7% of total employment
6	Mozambique	83.7% of total employment
7	Burundi	83.7% of total employment
8	United Republic of Tanzania	83.7% of total employment
9	Afghanistan	81.8% of total employment
10	Democratic Republic of the Congo	81.5% of total employment
11	Burkina Faso	80.6% of total employment
12	Central African Republic	79.4% of total employment
13	Guinea	79.2% of total employment
14	Benin	78.5% of total employment
15	Nepal	77.0% of total employment
16	Liberia	76.9% of total employment
17	Lao People's Democratic Republic	76.4% of total employment
18	Haiti	76.0% of total employment
19	Republic of the Congo	75.9% of total employment
20	Mali	75.8% of total employment
21	Togo	75.0% of total employment
22	Guinea-Bissau	74.9% of total employment
23	Uganda	74.4% of total employment
24	India	71.6% of total employment
25	Papua New Guinea	71.2% of total employment
26	Zambia	70.2% of total employment
27	Cote d'Ivoire	69.4% of total employment
28	Bhutan	69.0% of total employment
29	Solomon Islands	68.7% of total employment
30	Zimbabwe	68.2% of total employment
31	Cameroon	67.6% of total employment
32	Nigeria	66.5% of total employment
33	Angola	66.3% of total employment
34	Kenya	63.8% of total employment
35	Republic of The Gambia	63.5% of total employment
36	Senegal	63.0% of total employment
37	Myanmar	62.9% of total employment
38	Bolivia	62.7% of total employment
39	Ghana	60.0% of total employment
40	Malawi	59.9% of total employment
41	Timor-Leste	58.6% of total employment
42	Moldova, Republic of	58.6% of total employment
43	Vanuatu	58.0% of total employment
44	Bangladesh	57.3% of total employment
45	Comoros	56.8% of total employment
46	North Korea	56.8% of total employment
47	Pakistan	55.5% of total employment
48	Azerbaijan	53.8% of total employment
49	Mauritania	53.3% of total employment
50	Cambodia	52.3% of total employment
51	Vietnam	51.4% of total employment
52	Ecuador	50.1% of total employment
53	Indonesia	50.0% of total employment
54	Thailand	48.0% of total employment
55	Eritrea	47.9% of total employment
56	Peru	47.5% of total employment
57	Albania	46.0% of total employment
58	Somalia	46.0% of total employment
59	Yemen	45.6% of total employment
60	Colombia	43.0% of total employment
61	Georgia	42.4% of total employment
62	Samoa	41.6% of total employment
63	Islamic Republic of Iran	39.5% of total employment
64	Rwanda	39.4% of total employment
65	Sri Lanka	39.2% of total employment
66	Nicaragua	38.9% of total employment
67	Syrian Arab Republic	38.9% of total employment
68	Mongolia	38.4% of total employment
69	Dominican Republic	38.0% of total employment
70	Panama	37.9% of total employment
71	Venezuela	37.3% of total employment
72	Guatemala	36.2% of total employment
73	Paraguay	36.1% of total employment
74	Morocco	35.5% of total employment
75	Sao Tome and Principe	35.0% of total employment
76	Cape Verde	34.3% of total employment
77	Honduras	33.9% of total employment
78	Tonga	33.7% of total employment
79	Philippines	33.6% of total employment
80	People's Republic of China	33.4% of total employment
81	Uzbekistan	33.3% of total employment
82	Armenia	32.8% of total employment
83	Fiji	32.8% of total employment
84	Lesotho	32.6% of total employment
85	Jamaica	31.6% of total employment
86	El Salvador	30.8% of total employment
87	Djibouti	30.3% of total employment
88	Namibia	29.9% of total employment
89	Belize	29.8% of total employment
90	Gabon	29.8% of total employment
91	Kyrgyzstan	29.0% of total employment
92	Eswatini	28.4% of total employment
93	Turkmenistan	28.3% of total employment
94	Tajikistan	28.0% of total employment
95	Iraq	27.1% of total employment
96	Brazil	26.1% of total employment
97	Botswana	25.6% of total employment
98	Algeria	25.6% of total employment
99	Guyana	25.3% of total employment
100	Mexico	25.3% of total employment
101	Kazakhstan	24.8% of total employment
102	Uruguay	24.4% of total employment
103	Egypt	23.9% of total employment
104	Türkiye	23.9% of total employment
105	Serbia	23.9% of total employment
106	Costa Rica	23.4% of total employment
107	Equatorial Guinea	23.1% of total employment
108	Greece	23.1% of total employment
109	Argentina	22.3% of total employment
110	Saint Lucia	22.0% of total employment
111	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	22.0% of total employment
112	Malaysia	21.9% of total employment
113	Libya	21.6% of total employment
114	Trinidad and Tobago	21.2% of total employment
115	Chile	20.9% of total employment
116	Cuba	19.3% of total employment
117	Barbados	18.8% of total employment
118	Suriname	18.4% of total employment
119	Bosnia and Herzegovina	18.1% of total employment
120	Tunisia	17.9% of total employment
121	South Korea	17.7% of total employment
122	Maldives	16.9% of total employment
123	Bahamas	15.9% of total employment
124	Poland	15.0% of total employment
125	Mauritius	14.9% of total employment
126	French Polynesia	14.8% of total employment
127	Italy	14.3% of total employment
128	Montenegro	14.3% of total employment
129	New Caledonia	14.2% of total employment
130	Czech Republic	13.5% of total employment
131	Netherlands	13.4% of total employment
132	Romania	13.0% of total employment
133	New Zealand	12.6% of total employment
134	The Republic of North Macedonia	12.3% of total employment
135	Slovakia	11.8% of total employment
136	Guam	11.8% of total employment
137	South Africa	11.7% of total employment
138	United Kingdom	11.5% of total employment
139	Belgium	11.0% of total employment
140	Slovenia	10.6% of total employment
141	Lithuania	10.4% of total employment
142	Puerto Rico	10.3% of total employment
143	Spain	10.1% of total employment
144	Malta	10.1% of total employment
145	Portugal	9.7% of total employment
146	Ireland	9.6% of total employment
147	Switzerland	9.6% of total employment
148	Canada	9.6% of total employment
149	Finland	9.5% of total employment
150	Singapore	9.3% of total employment
151	Australia	9.1% of total employment
152	Latvia	8.6% of total employment
153	France	8.5% of total employment
154	Iceland	8.4% of total employment
155	Cyprus	8.4% of total employment
156	Jordan	7.9% of total employment
157	Austria	7.9% of total employment
158	Hungary	7.8% of total employment
159	Israel	7.7% of total employment
160	Japan	7.5% of total employment
161	Estonia	7.1% of total employment
162	Luxembourg	6.9% of total employment
163	Bulgaria	6.9% of total employment
164	Sweden	6.9% of total employment
165	Croatia	6.3% of total employment
166	Belarus	6.3% of total employment
167	Hong Kong	5.8% of total employment
168	Virgin Islands, U.S.	5.5% of total employment
169	Denmark	5.4% of total employment
170	Russian Federation	4.9% of total employment
171	Brunei Darussalam	4.5% of total employment
172	Germany	4.3% of total employment
173	Norway	4.2% of total employment
174	Oman	3.8% of total employment
175	United States of America	3.8% of total employment
176	Macao	3.3% of total employment
177	Kuwait	2.4% of total employment
178	Saudi Arabia	1.7% of total employment
179	United Arab Emirates	1.5% of total employment
180	Bahrain	0.7% of total employment
181	Qatar	0.5% of total employment

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).

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