Egypt vs Equatorial Guinea: Wage and salaried workers, total (% of total employment)
Egypt
73.0%
in 2025
Equatorial Guinea
72.5%
in 2025
Egypt rank
79th
Equatorial Guinea rank
81st
Wage and salaried workers, total (% of total employment) over time
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
How they compare
Egypt currently reports 73.0% against 72.5% in Equatorial Guinea, a difference of 0.5%.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 35 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Egypt ahead.
Egypt ranks 79th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 81st of 187 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, Egypt averaged higher in 1 and Equatorial Guinea in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Egypt | Equatorial Guinea | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 66.1% | 55.3% | 10.8% | Egypt |
| 2000s | 67.8% | 74.2% | 6.4% | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2010s | 69.2% | 75.0% | 5.8% | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2020s | 72.9% | 73.0% | 0.0% | Equatorial Guinea |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher wage and salaried workers, total (% of total employment), Egypt or Equatorial Guinea?
- Egypt, at 73.0% against 72.5% in Equatorial Guinea as of 2025.
- What is the difference in wage and salaried workers, total (% of total employment) between Egypt and Equatorial Guinea?
- 0.5%, with Egypt ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Egypt and Equatorial Guinea?
- 35 years are reported by both, from 1991 to 2025.
- How do Egypt and Equatorial Guinea rank globally for wage and salaried workers, total (% of total employment)?
- Egypt ranks 79th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 81st of 187 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), published as Wage and salaried workers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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.