Informal employment rate (ILO modelled estimates) by country
Imputed observations are not based on national data, are subject to high uncertainty and should not be used for country comparisons or rankings. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. Informal employment comprises persons who in their main or secondary jobs were (a) own-account workers, employers and...
Informal employment rate: full country ranking
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Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Central Africa 92.93
- Western Africa 90.78
- Africa: Low income 89.53
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Lower-middle income 89.35
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Low income 89.12
- World: Low income 88.49
- Sub-Saharan Africa 87.18
- Eastern Africa 86.28
- Southern Asia: Lower-middle income 86.28
- Latin America and the Caribbean: Lower-middle income 85.65
- Americas: Lower-middle income 85.65
- Africa: Lower-middle income 85.17
- Southern Asia 84.72
- Africa 84.08
- Arab States: Low income 83.98
- Asia and the Pacific: Lower-middle income 82.94
- World: Lower-middle income 82.92
- Asia and the Pacific: Low income 80.74
- World: Lower-middle income excluding India 79.55
- CARICOM 74.17
- South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific: Upper-middle income 72.75
- South-Eastern Asia 68.91
- ASEAN 68.89
- South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific 65.93
- South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific: Lower-middle income 65.71
- Asia and the Pacific 65.49
- BRICS 64.02
- Northern Africa: Lower-middle income 62.79
- Northern Africa 62.51
- Central America 60.45
- Caribbean 58.12
- World 57.84
- G20 56.99
- Asia and the Pacific: Upper-middle income 56.19
- Arab League 56.05
- Arab States: Lower-middle income 55.21
- World: Upper-middle income excluding China 53.21
- World: Upper-middle income 52.67
- MENA 52.64
- Eastern Asia: Upper-middle income 52.18
About this data
Imputed observations are not based on national data, are subject to high uncertainty and should not be used for country comparisons or rankings. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. Informal employment comprises persons who in their main or secondary jobs were (a) own-account workers, employers and members of producers' cooperatives employed in their own informal sector enterprises; (b) own-account workers engaged in the production of goods exclusively for own final use by their household (e.g. subsistence farming); (c) contributing family workers, regardless of whether they work in formal or informal sector enterprises; or (d) employees holding informal jobs, whether employed by formal sector enterprises, informal sector enterprises, or as paid domestic workers by households. For more information, refer to the ILO Modelled Estimates (ILOEST) database description.