Working poverty rate
Compare working poverty rate across 113 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 ILOSTAT reference slice.
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Key Insights
- •113 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
- •Madagascar has the highest published value (86.016 Percentage).
- •Bhutan has the lowest published value (0.007 Percentage).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 17.1Percentage)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
The series is part of the ILO modelled estimates and is harmonized to account for differences in national data and scope of coverage, collection and tabulation methodologies as well as for other country-specific factors. The working poverty rate conveys the percentage of employed persons living in poverty in spite of being employed. Poverty is defined using the international poverty line of US$3 per day in purchasing power parity (PPP). For more information, refer to the Labour Market-related SDG Indicators (ILOSDG) database description .
MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 ILOSTAT slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.
Methodology
The series is part of the ILO modelled estimates and is harmonized to account for differences in national data and scope of coverage, collection and tabulation methodologies as well as for other country-specific factors. The working poverty rate conveys the percentage of employed persons living in poverty in spite of being employed. Poverty is defined using the international poverty line of US$3 per day in purchasing power parity (PPP). For more information, refer to the Labour Market-related SDG Indicators (ILOSDG) database description .
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madagascar | 86.0Percentage |
| 2 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 80.3Percentage |
| 3 | Mozambique | 79.6Percentage |
| 4 | Somalia | 78.2Percentage |
| 5 | Malawi | 73.1Percentage |
| 6 | Burundi | 71.8Percentage |
| 7 | Central African Republic | 69.7Percentage |
| 8 | Yemen | 66.5Percentage |
| 9 | Zambia | 66.0Percentage |
| 10 | Uganda | 53.1Percentage |
| 11 | Niger | 49.8Percentage |
| 12 | Republic of the Congo | 49.2Percentage |
| 13 | United Republic of Tanzania | 44.7Percentage |
| 14 | Solomon Islands | 43.3Percentage |
| 15 | Haiti | 43.1Percentage |
| 16 | Timor-Leste | 42.9Percentage |
| 17 | Rwanda | 42.3Percentage |
| 18 | Zimbabwe | 41.9Percentage |
| 19 | Angola | 40.1Percentage |
| 20 | Burkina Faso | 38.5Percentage |
| 21 | Chad | 38.0Percentage |
| 22 | Papua New Guinea | 37.2Percentage |
| 23 | Sierra Leone | 35.5Percentage |
| 24 | Mali | 34.3Percentage |
| 25 | Lesotho | 33.6Percentage |
| 26 | Kenya | 33.1Percentage |
| 27 | Eswatini | 32.9Percentage |
| 28 | Liberia | 32.7Percentage |
| 29 | Guinea-Bissau | 32.1Percentage |
| 30 | Venezuela | 29.5Percentage |
| 31 | Ethiopia | 28.2Percentage |
| 32 | Nigeria | 27.9Percentage |
| 33 | Ghana | 27.7Percentage |
| 34 | Comoros | 24.9Percentage |
| 35 | Cameroon | 21.7Percentage |
| 36 | Togo | 20.3Percentage |
| 37 | Benin | 18.3Percentage |
| 38 | Syrian Arab Republic | 17.9Percentage |
| 39 | Cote d'Ivoire | 17.7Percentage |
| 40 | Senegal | 17.2Percentage |
| 41 | Pakistan | 15.1Percentage |
| 42 | South Africa | 14.5Percentage |
| 43 | Botswana | 14.3Percentage |
| 44 | Republic of The Gambia | 14.2Percentage |
| 45 | Honduras | 12.4Percentage |
| 46 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 12.1Percentage |
| 47 | Namibia | 11.9Percentage |
| 48 | Myanmar | 11.3Percentage |
| 49 | Guinea | 9.3Percentage |
| 50 | Peru | 6.3Percentage |
| 51 | Mauritania | 6.0Percentage |
| 52 | Indonesia | 5.6Percentage |
| 53 | Cape Verde | 5.6Percentage |
| 54 | Guatemala | 5.6Percentage |
| 55 | Tajikistan | 5.1Percentage |
| 56 | Bangladesh | 4.9Percentage |
| 57 | Ecuador | 4.9Percentage |
| 58 | Colombia | 4.0Percentage |
| 59 | Nicaragua | 3.8Percentage |
| 60 | India | 3.6Percentage |
| 61 | Sri Lanka | 2.9Percentage |
| 62 | Gabon | 2.9Percentage |
| 63 | Morocco | 2.8Percentage |
| 64 | Bolivia | 2.8Percentage |
| 65 | El Salvador | 2.5Percentage |
| 66 | Uzbekistan | 2.4Percentage |
| 67 | Kyrgyzstan | 2.4Percentage |
| 68 | Fiji | 1.9Percentage |
| 69 | Nepal | 1.9Percentage |
| 70 | Mexico | 1.6Percentage |
| 71 | Panama | 1.5Percentage |
| 72 | Georgia | 1.4Percentage |
| 73 | Vietnam | 1.4Percentage |
| 74 | Guyana | 0.8Percentage |
| 75 | Islamic Republic of Iran | 0.8Percentage |
| 76 | Jamaica | 0.8Percentage |
| 77 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 0.7Percentage |
| 78 | Brazil | 0.6Percentage |
| 79 | Philippines | 0.5Percentage |
| 80 | Turkmenistan | 0.4Percentage |
| 81 | Dominican Republic | 0.4Percentage |
| 82 | Egypt | 0.4Percentage |
| 83 | Suriname | 0.3Percentage |
| 84 | Barbados | 0.3Percentage |
| 85 | Montenegro | 0.3Percentage |
| 86 | Jordan | 0.2Percentage |
| 87 | Belarus | 0.1Percentage |
| 88 | Chile | 0.1Percentage |
| 89 | People's Republic of China | 0.1Percentage |
| 90 | Costa Rica | 0.1Percentage |
| 91 | Iraq | 0.1Percentage |
| 92 | Kazakhstan | 0.1Percentage |
| 93 | Malaysia | 0.1Percentage |
| 94 | Maldives | 0.1Percentage |
| 95 | Mauritius | 0.1Percentage |
| 96 | Mongolia | 0.1Percentage |
| 97 | Paraguay | 0.1Percentage |
| 98 | Thailand | 0.1Percentage |
| 99 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.1Percentage |
| 100 | Tunisia | 0.1Percentage |
| 101 | Türkiye | 0.1Percentage |
| 102 | Uruguay | 0.1Percentage |
| 103 | Albania | 0.1Percentage |
| 104 | Algeria | 0.1Percentage |
| 105 | Azerbaijan | 0.1Percentage |
| 106 | Belize | 0.1Percentage |
| 107 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.1Percentage |
| 108 | Armenia | 0.0Percentage |
| 109 | Moldova, Republic of | 0.0Percentage |
| 110 | Serbia | 0.0Percentage |
| 111 | Argentina | 0.0Percentage |
| 112 | Russian Federation | 0.0Percentage |
| 113 | Bhutan | 0.0Percentage |
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Data Source
This data comes from International Labour Organization (ILO) (2025).
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