SDG indicator 8.3.1: Proportion of informal employment in total employment (previous ILO definition - ICLS13) by country
Data may differ from nationally reported figures and the Global SDG Indicators Database due to differences in sources and/or reference years. This indicator conveys the share of informal employment in total employment. Employment comprises all persons of working age who, during a specified brief period, were either...
What the numbers show
SDG indicator 8.3.1: Proportion of informal employment in total employment (previous ILO definition - ICLS13) is currently reported for 84 countries. The highest value is 94.49 in Angola; the lowest is 0.857 in Hungary.
The median across all reporting countries is 36.67, and the mean is 40.56.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 110.
Over the past decade 27 countries rose and 57 fell. The largest increase was in Croatia (up 219.6%), and the largest decrease in Hungary (down 92.9%).
SDG indicator 8.3.1: Proportion of informal employment in total: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angola | 94.49 | 2025 | up 12.1% | rising |
| 2 | Uganda | 94.48 | 2021 | down 2.2% | flat |
| 3 | Mali | 92.77 | 2024 | down 1.7% | flat |
| 4 | Cote d'Ivoire | 92.12 | 2022 | down 2.9% | falling |
| 5 | Rwanda | 90.06 | 2025 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 6 | Senegal | 89.22 | 2024 | down 2.5% | flat |
| 7 | Pakistan | 88.69 | 2025 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 8 | India | 87.2 | 2025 | down 3.1% | flat |
| 9 | Bolivia | 85.61 | 2025 | up 2.1% | flat |
| 10 | Zimbabwe | 85 | 2024 | down 2.2% | flat |
| 11 | Bangladesh | 84.04 | 2024 | down 5.9% | falling |
| 12 | Zambia | 82.73 | 2024 | down 1.4% | flat |
| 13 | Honduras | 82.61 | 2017 | up 14.5% | rising |
| 14 | Indonesia | 80.97 | 2023 | down 5.3% | falling |
| 15 | Myanmar | 80.71 | 2020 | down 1.8% | flat |
| 16 | Armenia | 76.14 | 2017 | up 48.7% | rising |
| 17 | Botswana | 75.58 | 2024 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 18 | Guatemala | 73.52 | 2025 | down 7.1% | flat |
| 19 | Peru | 70.46 | 2025 | up 1.8% | falling |
| 20 | Egypt | 68.61 | 2024 | up 19.1% | rising |
| 21 | Ecuador | 68.45 | 2025 | up 17.6% | falling |
| 22 | Vietnam | 67.03 | 2024 | down 12.8% | falling |
| 23 | Sri Lanka | 66.35 | 2024 | down 4.1% | falling |
| 24 | Paraguay | 64.5 | 2025 | down 8.8% | falling |
| 25 | El Salvador | 63.63 | 2025 | down 7.8% | falling |
| 26 | Thailand | 63.17 | 2024 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 27 | Georgia | 62.39 | 2025 | up 21.7% | rising |
| 28 | Kyrgyzstan | 57.55 | 2023 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 29 | Mexico | 56.88 | 2025 | down 3.1% | falling |
| 30 | Colombia | 56.01 | 2025 | down 11.4% | falling |
| 31 | Caribbean | 58.12 | 2027 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 31 | Panama | 55.73 | 2025 | up 16.5% | rising |
| 32 | Namibia | 55.64 | 2018 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 33 | Moldova | 55.37 | 2025 | down 8.6% | rising |
| 34 | Jamaica | 54.64 | 2023 | down 5.2% | flat |
| 35 | Jordan | 54.22 | 2024 | up 21.3% | rising |
| 36 | Dominican Republic | 53.5 | 2025 | down 4.9% | falling |
| 37 | Argentina | 52.82 | 2025 | up 11.3% | falling |
| 38 | Guyana | 49.44 | 2024 | down 5.6% | falling |
| 39 | Palestine | 48.8 | 2025 | down 12.6% | falling |
| 40 | Grenada | 48.05 | 2023 | down 2.3% | falling |
| 41 | Mongolia | 37.24 | 2025 | down 24.6% | falling |
| 42 | Costa Rica | 36.11 | 2025 | down 14.1% | flat |
| 43 | Brazil | 35.62 | 2025 | down 11.9% | falling |
| 44 | South Africa | 34.81 | 2024 | up 8.4% | falling |
| 45 | Uruguay | 32.7 | 2025 | up 37.0% | falling |
| 46 | Saint Lucia | 29.21 | 2025 | down 8.4% | falling |
| 47 | Turkey | 26.59 | 2025 | down 23.6% | falling |
| 48 | Chile | 26.37 | 2025 | down 32.4% | falling |
| 49 | Mauritius | 23.45 | 2024 | down 57.0% | falling |
| 50 | Brunei | 21.39 | 2024 | down 35.4% | falling |
| 51 | United Kingdom | 19.81 | 2018 | down 4.4% | flat |
| 52 | Russia | 19.23 | 2025 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 53 | Serbia | 17.14 | 2025 | down 22.8% | falling |
| 54 | Croatia | 14.82 | 2025 | up 219.6% | volatile |
| 55 | Poland | 14.35 | 2025 | down 2.8% | falling |
| 56 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 14.1 | 2025 | down 53.2% | falling |
| 57 | North Macedonia | 11.96 | 2025 | down 38.1% | falling |
| 58 | Seychelles | 8.91 | 2025 | down 40.8% | falling |
| 59 | Latvia | 8.91 | 2025 | up 85.5% | rising |
| 60 | Italy | 8.35 | 2025 | up 118.0% | rising |
| 61 | Slovakia | 6.25 | 2025 | down 57.7% | falling |
| 62 | Estonia | 6.1 | 2025 | up 144.1% | volatile |
| 63 | Austria | 5.5 | 2025 | up 181.9% | rising |
| 64 | Netherlands | 5.05 | 2025 | down 60.1% | falling |
| 65 | Lithuania | 4.49 | 2025 | up 15.6% | flat |
| 66 | Luxembourg | 4.43 | 2025 | up 155.5% | volatile |
| 67 | Greece | 4.2 | 2025 | down 0.8% | falling |
| 68 | Spain | 3.8 | 2025 | down 25.6% | falling |
| 69 | Bulgaria | 3.58 | 2025 | down 47.8% | falling |
| 70 | Ireland | 3.42 | 2025 | down 8.8% | volatile |
| 71 | France | 3.39 | 2025 | down 45.4% | falling |
| 72 | Slovenia | 3.35 | 2025 | down 33.1% | flat |
| 73 | Czechia | 3.34 | 2025 | down 81.3% | falling |
| 74 | Sweden | 3.23 | 2025 | down 17.9% | falling |
| 75 | Norway | 3.15 | 2025 | down 39.7% | falling |
| 76 | Cyprus | 2.91 | 2025 | down 75.9% | falling |
| 77 | Belgium | 2.45 | 2025 | down 8.6% | falling |
| 78 | Portugal | 2.33 | 2025 | down 63.6% | falling |
| 79 | Denmark | 2.22 | 2025 | down 78.4% | falling |
| 80 | Iceland | 1.99 | 2020 | down 33.1% | falling |
| 81 | Finland | 1.54 | 2025 | down 81.1% | falling |
| 82 | Switzerland | 1.09 | 2024 | up 27.7% | volatile |
| 83 | Hungary | 0.857 | 2020 | down 92.9% | volatile |
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
- Americas: Lower-middle income 85.65
- Latin America and the Caribbean: 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
- 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
- World excluding India and China 52.06
About this data
Data may differ from nationally reported figures and the Global SDG Indicators Database due to differences in sources and/or reference years. This indicator conveys the share of informal employment in total employment. Employment comprises all persons of working age who, during a specified brief period, were either in paid employment (whether at work or with a job but not at work) or in self-employment (whether at work or with an enterprise but not at work). 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. Data disaggregated by economic activity are provided according to the latest version of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) available for that year. Data may have been regrouped from national classifications, which may not be strictly compatible with ISIC. For more information, refer to the Labour Market-related SDG Indicators (ILOSDG) database description.