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Wage and salaried workers share of employment

Name: Wage and salaried workers share of employment
Creator: World Development Indicators
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, labor, sl.emp.work.zs

Compare wage and salaried workers share of employment across 181 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source dataset.

Source: World Development Indicators•181 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

61.4% of total employment

Median: 68.0% of total employment

Countries Covered

181

with available data

Highest

Qatar

99.2% of total employment

Lowest

Chad

8.4% of total employment

Top 5 Countries

1Qatar99.2% of total employment

2Bahrain97.6% of total employment

3Kuwait96.8% of total employment

4Norway95.1% of total employment

5Oman95.0% of total employment

By Region

Key Findings

•Coverage: 181 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
•Published range: 8.43893405146016 to 99.1678180696403 % of total employment.
•Discovery motivation: Labor Day and Google Trends employment/social-support topics.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (8.4% of total employment)High (99.2% of total employment)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 61.4% of total employment)

About This Statistic

Wage and salaried workers (employees) are those workers who hold the type of jobs defined as "paid employment jobs," where the incumbents hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that give them a basic remuneration that is not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work.

MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.

Methodology

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Qatar	99.2% of total employment
2	Bahrain	97.6% of total employment
3	Kuwait	96.8% of total employment
4	Norway	95.1% of total employment
5	Oman	95.0% of total employment
6	United Arab Emirates	94.9% of total employment
7	Saudi Arabia	94.5% of total employment
8	United States of America	93.9% of total employment
9	Russian Federation	93.7% of total employment
10	Macao	93.2% of total employment
11	Belarus	93.2% of total employment
12	Brunei Darussalam	92.7% of total employment
13	Hong Kong	92.3% of total employment
14	Denmark	92.1% of total employment
15	Germany	91.9% of total employment
16	Japan	90.9% of total employment
17	Virgin Islands, U.S.	90.9% of total employment
18	Cyprus	89.8% of total employment
19	Sweden	89.8% of total employment
20	Luxembourg	89.7% of total employment
21	Jordan	88.8% of total employment
22	Israel	88.7% of total employment
23	Lithuania	88.5% of total employment
24	Hungary	88.4% of total employment
25	Bulgaria	88.2% of total employment
26	Estonia	87.9% of total employment
27	Austria	87.8% of total employment
28	Finland	87.5% of total employment
29	Puerto Rico	87.4% of total employment
30	Singapore	87.3% of total employment
31	Croatia	87.3% of total employment
32	Canada	87.1% of total employment
33	United Kingdom	86.9% of total employment
34	France	86.7% of total employment
35	Iceland	86.7% of total employment
36	Ireland	86.6% of total employment
37	Latvia	86.3% of total employment
38	Malta	86.1% of total employment
39	Slovenia	86.0% of total employment
40	Portugal	85.6% of total employment
41	Romania	85.5% of total employment
42	Spain	85.5% of total employment
43	Belgium	85.4% of total employment
44	Slovakia	85.1% of total employment
45	Guam	84.5% of total employment
46	Czech Republic	84.3% of total employment
47	Australia	83.9% of total employment
48	The Republic of North Macedonia	83.4% of total employment
49	Netherlands	83.2% of total employment
50	Switzerland	83.1% of total employment
51	Bahamas	82.9% of total employment
52	New Caledonia	82.9% of total employment
53	South Africa	82.7% of total employment
54	Montenegro	82.6% of total employment
55	Mauritius	82.2% of total employment
56	French Polynesia	81.8% of total employment
57	New Zealand	81.6% of total employment
58	Poland	81.1% of total employment
59	Barbados	80.5% of total employment
60	Maldives	80.0% of total employment
61	Italy	78.9% of total employment
62	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.9% of total employment
63	Suriname	77.5% of total employment
64	South Korea	77.3% of total employment
65	Chile	76.1% of total employment
66	Cuba	75.1% of total employment
67	Tunisia	75.1% of total employment
68	Malaysia	74.6% of total employment
69	Argentina	74.4% of total employment
70	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	74.3% of total employment
71	Trinidad and Tobago	74.3% of total employment
72	Libya	74.1% of total employment
73	Kazakhstan	73.9% of total employment
74	Costa Rica	73.4% of total employment
75	Saint Lucia	73.3% of total employment
76	Egypt	73.0% of total employment
77	Serbia	73.0% of total employment
78	Equatorial Guinea	72.5% of total employment
79	Uruguay	72.0% of total employment
80	Botswana	71.9% of total employment
81	Türkiye	71.5% of total employment
82	Algeria	69.8% of total employment
83	Eswatini	69.8% of total employment
84	Brazil	69.7% of total employment
85	Greece	69.5% of total employment
86	Kyrgyzstan	69.5% of total employment
87	Mexico	69.2% of total employment
88	Guyana	68.9% of total employment
89	Tajikistan	68.7% of total employment
90	Iraq	68.3% of total employment
91	Turkmenistan	68.0% of total employment
92	Gabon	67.6% of total employment
93	Armenia	66.3% of total employment
94	Fiji	65.9% of total employment
95	Belize	64.8% of total employment
96	El Salvador	64.3% of total employment
97	Jamaica	64.3% of total employment
98	Philippines	63.9% of total employment
99	Namibia	63.5% of total employment
100	People's Republic of China	62.3% of total employment
101	Cape Verde	61.5% of total employment
102	Lesotho	61.5% of total employment
103	Guatemala	60.9% of total employment
104	Morocco	59.9% of total employment
105	Venezuela	59.6% of total employment
106	Rwanda	59.6% of total employment
107	Panama	59.4% of total employment
108	Mongolia	58.8% of total employment
109	Paraguay	58.7% of total employment
110	Tonga	58.2% of total employment
111	Sri Lanka	57.9% of total employment
112	Dominican Republic	57.9% of total employment
113	Syrian Arab Republic	57.6% of total employment
114	Islamic Republic of Iran	57.1% of total employment
115	Sao Tome and Principe	56.0% of total employment
116	Honduras	55.9% of total employment
117	Nicaragua	55.7% of total employment
118	Samoa	55.5% of total employment
119	Uzbekistan	54.6% of total employment
120	Colombia	54.4% of total employment
121	Georgia	53.9% of total employment
122	Albania	49.7% of total employment
123	Thailand	49.3% of total employment
124	Djibouti	48.9% of total employment
125	Peru	48.7% of total employment
126	Somalia	47.8% of total employment
127	Ecuador	47.7% of total employment
128	Eritrea	47.6% of total employment
129	Yemen	47.4% of total employment
130	Indonesia	46.7% of total employment
131	Vietnam	46.7% of total employment
132	Cambodia	44.5% of total employment
133	Pakistan	43.0% of total employment
134	Mauritania	42.6% of total employment
135	Comoros	42.1% of total employment
136	Moldova, Republic of	41.2% of total employment
137	Vanuatu	39.4% of total employment
138	Bangladesh	39.0% of total employment
139	Malawi	38.7% of total employment
140	North Korea	37.9% of total employment
141	Senegal	35.7% of total employment
142	Kenya	35.2% of total employment
143	Myanmar	34.5% of total employment
144	Bolivia	33.7% of total employment
145	Azerbaijan	33.0% of total employment
146	Ghana	32.5% of total employment
147	Republic of The Gambia	31.4% of total employment
148	Cameroon	30.7% of total employment
149	Bhutan	30.5% of total employment
150	Solomon Islands	30.1% of total employment
151	Zimbabwe	29.2% of total employment
152	Cote d'Ivoire	29.0% of total employment
153	Zambia	28.3% of total employment
154	Timor-Leste	25.1% of total employment
155	India	25.1% of total employment
156	Guinea-Bissau	24.5% of total employment
157	Angola	24.1% of total employment
158	Mali	23.6% of total employment
159	Togo	23.4% of total employment
160	Republic of the Congo	23.2% of total employment
161	Haiti	23.2% of total employment
162	Lao People's Democratic Republic	22.9% of total employment
163	Liberia	21.7% of total employment
164	Nepal	21.4% of total employment
165	Papua New Guinea	21.3% of total employment
166	Benin	20.2% of total employment
167	Uganda	19.5% of total employment
168	Guinea	18.1% of total employment
169	Burkina Faso	17.4% of total employment
170	Afghanistan	16.6% of total employment
171	Ethiopia	15.7% of total employment
172	Burundi	15.1% of total employment
173	Democratic Republic of the Congo	14.9% of total employment
174	Mozambique	14.7% of total employment
175	United Republic of Tanzania	14.7% of total employment
176	Central African Republic	14.6% of total employment
177	Nigeria	13.8% of total employment
178	Madagascar	11.7% of total employment
179	Sierra Leone	11.2% of total employment
180	Niger	10.5% of total employment
181	Chad	8.4% of total employment

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Data Source

This data comes from World Development Indicators (2025).

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